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Advanced/Level 3 PUE requires that data center energy data be monitored and recorded continuously, down to the server level -- making the Raritan/EDSA collaboration the first such commercialized solution available in the marketplace, the companies' said in a statement.
The combined offerings measure energy usage from the point where energy enters a facility all the way to an IT device. EDSA's electrical power diagnostics tracks and measures energy used in a building's electrical infrastructure, such as lighting, cooling and UPS, while Raritan's energy management solutions measure the energy that IT equipment use -- down to the outlets into which servers plug.
"With the easy-to-understand energy information that EDSA's and Raritan's solutions provide, data center managers can see how much of a facility's total energy makes it to the IT equipment and how each IT device is actually using the energy," said Yee Liaw, Raritan's Vice President of Advanced Technologies. "Tracking energy use and changes using standard metrics, such as the PUE, and having tools to conduct what-if scenarios, are valuable in optimizing data centers. We are pleased to be working with EDSA in helping customers gain better energy insights in order to make informed decisions on their data centers."
The newest PUE standard published by The Green Grid outlines three levels of measuring data center energy:
-- Basic (formerly called Level 1): Manual, infrequent collection and analysis of data.
-- Intermediate (formerly called Level 2): Daily automated data collection and analysis, but at the facility level.
-- Advanced (formerly called Level 3): Continuous, automated data collection and analysis at the device level.
"Data Center Operators are focused today on three primary issues: power, space and cooling," said Kevin Meagher, Chief Technology Officer at EDSA, the leading provider of software tools for electrical power systems design and reliability management. "This drives asset management, e.g. the ability to tell which outlets are in use and which are available. This, in turn, guides capacity planning (space) and heat being generated (cooling). The Green Grid's PUE creates a common reference point that makes it possible for data center operators to start making important assessments of their facilities, as well as their going-forward strategies for reducing energy usage. Data center operators no longer have to be in the dark about their energy efficiency."
An Advanced/Level 3 power picture can be created with EDSA's Paladin(R) Live(TM) power analytics software, which tracks and measures a facility's electrical infrastructure, combined with Raritan's IT device-level collection and analysis solutions - Power IQ(TM) Energy Management software and Dominion(R) PX intelligent power strips.
Advanced/Level 3 PUE requires that data center energy data be monitored and recorded continuously, down to the server level -- making the Raritan/EDSA collaboration the first such commercialized solution available in the marketplace, the companies' said in a statement.
The combined offerings measure energy usage from the point where energy enters a facility all the way to an IT device. EDSA's electrical power diagnostics tracks and measures energy used in a building's electrical infrastructure, such as lighting, cooling and UPS, while Raritan's energy management solutions measure the energy that IT equipment use -- down to the outlets into which servers plug.
"With the easy-to-understand energy information that EDSA's and Raritan's solutions provide, data center managers can see how much of a facility's total energy makes it to the IT equipment and how each IT device is actually using the energy," said Yee Liaw, Raritan's Vice President of Advanced Technologies. "Tracking energy use and changes using standard metrics, such as the PUE, and having tools to conduct what-if scenarios, are valuable in optimizing data centers. We are pleased to be working with EDSA in helping customers gain better energy insights in order to make informed decisions on their data centers."
The newest PUE standard published by The Green Grid outlines three levels of measuring data center energy:
-- Basic (formerly called Level 1): Manual, infrequent collection and analysis of data.
-- Intermediate (formerly called Level 2): Daily automated data collection and analysis, but at the facility level.
-- Advanced (formerly called Level 3): Continuous, automated data collection and analysis at the device level.
"Data Center Operators are focused today on three primary issues: power, space and cooling," said Kevin Meagher, Chief Technology Officer at EDSA, the leading provider of software tools for electrical power systems design and reliability management. "This drives asset management, e.g. the ability to tell which outlets are in use and which are available. This, in turn, guides capacity planning (space) and heat being generated (cooling). The Green Grid's PUE creates a common reference point that makes it possible for data center operators to start making important assessments of their facilities, as well as their going-forward strategies for reducing energy usage. Data center operators no longer have to be in the dark about their energy efficiency."
An Advanced/Level 3 power picture can be created with EDSA's Paladin(R) Live(TM) power analytics software, which tracks and measures a facility's electrical infrastructure, combined with Raritan's IT device-level collection and analysis solutions - Power IQ(TM) Energy Management software and Dominion(R) PX intelligent power strips.