Cassatt Corporation, a leader in innovative solutions to improve resource, operational, and energy efficiencies in the data center, has announced a breakthrough technology that safely and intelligently powers servers off when they are not needed or idle. This technology is the cornerstone of Cassatt's new strategy for helping customers move toward greener data centers.
Controlled by polices set by administrators and optimized automatically, Cassatt Active Power ManagementÔäó technology continually optimizes power consumption based on the time of day, demand, curtailments imposed by power companies, or other facilities-based events. In early tests with Active Power Management, customers have experienced up to 50 percent reduction in their power usage, simply by allowing Active Power Management to turn off servers when idle, and then confirm a successful power-up when they're needed again.
"Technologies like Cassatt Active Power Management are changing the way data center managers can address power and cooling problems, said Michelle Bailey, research vice president for IDC. "How big of a problem is this? Our most recent survey puts power and cooling as the number one issue in data centers today. Servers are typically kept on 24 by 7, leading to an enormous waste of power and cooling resources. Cassatt's innovations in this space not only offer customers a solution for reducing IT operations costs, but also help bridge the gap between facilities and IT.