UK-based Future Facilities has launched an availability, capacity and efficiency (ACE) performance assessment for data center operators which calculates available data center capacity, availability and efficiency which it said will maximize data center performance.

Future Facilities said the average cost of downtime is $627k per incident but tracking performance can help reduce the risk.

The ACE Performance Assessment Score enables data center owner-operators to track and improve the performance of their data centers.

The assessment is intended to allow customers greater control over increases in downtime, cost per kW of IT load and TCO.

It works by mapping data from data center infrastructure management (DCIM) toolsets into a powerful 3D virtual facility model; it then simulates the resulting distribution of airflow and temperature in the space. This is called predictive modeling for DCIM.

The ACE Performance Assessment Score plots the data center’s performance gap.

Once the gap has been identified, data center professionals can make informed decisions about which variables to protect, which to sacrifice, where to save money, how to lessen the impact of change and how to ensure data center investments are maximized.

Data center performance can be measured at any point in time via the assessment.

The process provides a comparison against the original design intent and allows owner-operators to decide which of the variables to protect and which to sacrifice to meet their operational goals.

Future Facilities said that in trials, the assessment performance score saved a major financial institution $10m by assessing and improving a single 24,000 sq ft data center.

Future Facilities CEO Hassan Moezzi said: “The people responsible for the operation of the data center cannot predict the engineering impact of moves, additions or changes made to the IT load. In a dynamic environment, every change has an effect on data center capacity, resilience or efficiency.”