EFFICIENCY…for most data center end users, this word is oftentimes initially associated to lowering energy usage as well as reduced electricity costs. But as we look beyond the energy angle, efficiency has a much a broader scope and this extends throughout the data center’s life cycle efficiency – design and deployment, operations and management and planning.

How can we optimize efficiency at each cycle?
Equating efficiency to the life cycle of a data center can yield greater benefits to the end user. It is the path towards to attaining efficiency in the network without compromising availability. Emerson Network Power has identified each stage and offers unique services, solutions and expert advice that improves efficiency and ensures availability.

Each cycle has its set of efficiency goals. Emerson has identified these goals to help end users make informed choices in their IT equipment and infrastructure acquisition:

Design & Deployment

• Leverage pre-engineered solutions and high-density architectures
• Reduce the time required for system design and deployment
• Reduce space and capital requirements

Operation

• Reduce energy costs with efficient technologies
• Decrease downtime costs through high-availability configurations

Management & Planning

• Streamline operations with comprehensive management controls
• Lower long-term operational costs with proactive maintenance programs

While some vendors have solutions that address efficiency, no one can address the breadth and depth of efficiency opportunities through the lifecycle of the data center than Emerson Network Power. To achieve efficiency without compromise, end users must capitalize on one of more of the following:

• Eco Availability – Particularly, this means striking a balance between availability and efficiency. End users must ensure that their efficiency efforts do not negatively impact IT business performance. For instance, carefully implementing a power solution that achieves the highest possible efficiency while still delivering availability goals.
• High Density – Increasing rack and room densities has a direct correlation with efficiency; the higher the density, the greater the efficiency. End users can increase density while providing availability and increasing compute capacity. Technologies that enable high density architecture within your current facility, helps avoid or delay the need for new data centers.
• Flex Capacity – This involves solutions that dynamically adapt to the IT environment. Technologies such as digital scroll compressors, UPS scalability and iCom controls all enable enhanced levels of dynamic flexibility in the quest to match reliable infrastructure systems to IT system loads.
• Infrastructure management – this pulls everything together through Emerson’s data center expertise along with products and services from our vast offerings in monitoring and management solutions such as assessments, services, Sitescan and Nform. This leads to improved IT infrastructure performance and uptime.

Data center professionals will see benefits throughout the lifecycle of their facility by embracing the opportunities provided. For example, by leveraging pre-engineered solutions and high-density architectures they can reduce the time required for system deployment, and reduce space and capital requirements. Within operations, they can achieve reduced energy costs with efficient technologies, and decrease downtime costs through high-availability configurations. Lastly, enhance management and planning systems can produce streamlined operations with comprehensive management controls, and lowered long-term operational costs via proactive maintenance programs.