Power management gives you the ability to make business decisions.

With a power management solution in place, you can:

• Monitor power usage.
  It's expensive to power up your data center. How much does it cost you? When are your peak loads? Which servers are causing the peak loads?
  
• Ensure proper capacity planning.
  EPA estimates that 90% of companies will experience interruption in data center operations caused by power failure and limits on power availability. Are you experiencing circuit overloads? Do you know why?
  
• Identify problem areas such as power consumption spikes, zombie servers, failing power supplies.
  
• Control power state remotely.
  
• Charge back department/customers for power consumption.
  
• Generate real time reports
  Generate reports on power consumption and remaining capacity for your entire infrastructure, in a particular server room, row of racks or even groups of servers
  
• Compare current power consumption with historical data and benchmarks.
  
• Generate PUE numbers.
  Power Usage Effectiveness, has become the standard in measuring your data center energy efficiency. It is the measure of the total facility power/IT equipment power. You cannot measure what you do not know. Where do you start?