EMC Corporation has unveiled a new portfolio of assessment and planning services to help maximize energy efficiency in the data center. The EMC Energy Efficiency Services have been released alongside the EMC Power Calculator which enables the company to provide customers with accurate energy consumption data and cooling requirements for its network storage systems based on their specific configuration and workload requirements.
With the EMC Energy Efficiency Services, EMC Global Services professionals provide a comprehensive assessment of a customer's data center environment and their IT assets and are able to plan, design and implement changes to better manage and forecast power consumption in the data center. As part of the service, EMC professionals evaluate actual customer workloads and configurations to determine current/projected energy consumption across IT assets including servers and storage, data center capacity and utilization, and power and cooling costs associated with mechanical, structural and maintenance considerations. Once the assessment is complete, the EMC services team can recommend and design an optimized infrastructure that saves energy by incorporating consolidation, virtualization and/or storage tiering strategies. In this way, EMC can help customers lower data center and IT infrastructure costs to save money on server and storage power consumption; retire old equipment, eliminate the need for additional equipment, and re-claim data center floor space; resolve existing and potential heat-related issues that are likely to create outages; provide options for power savings associated with future expansion and deploy industry standards and best practices for data center design and power efficiency.
Complementing EMC's storage-focused energy efficiency initiatives is VMware's industry changing, enterprise-class virtual infrastructure products, which enable organizations to greatly enhance server utilization and consolidation, and make the most of their existing server infrastructure and associated cooling systems. Additionally, VMware, an EMC subsidiary, has partnered with Pacific Gas & Electric to launch the first-ever utility financial incentive program to support virtualization projects in data centers. This program is designed to reward VMware users in northern and central California with up to US$4 million in rebates for data center build-outs and consolidations, based on the amount of energy saved.