Power Management - Benefits

It is SMART to have power management. It provides for business and operational efficiencies – saving money. Some benefits include:

1. No need for weekly walk troughs with power meters. Get real time and historical reports on power consumption KW/h per location, per row of racks, per cabinet, per power strip.
2. Get alerts when surpassing a certain power threshold on a particular feed. Prevent unnecessary downtime by preventing overloads in your circuit.
3. Have the ability to power cycle devices at your fingertips. Anytime, Anywhere. No waiting for a service tickets.
4. Identify comatose servers in your environment. Comatose servers are unused servers that are costing you power and taking up space in you infrastructure. Gartner says that by, “removing a single x86 server from a data center will result in savings of more than $400 a year in energy costs alone… business could reduce 5% to 20% of the overall server count”
5. Have better, more accurate tools for capacity planning. With power densities at a single rack increasing every year from 3KW in 2000 to almost 20KW in today’s infrastructure, power consumption and availability is major consideration in IT planning.
6. Keep your collocation honest. Are you being billed for the actual power you are using?
7. Compare current power consumption with historical data and benchmarks. Are your green initiatives paying off? EPA is awarding Energy Star rating to data centers that meet certain energy efficiency requirements. You cannot show improvement on your energy consumption without a base measurement of where you started.