Why data center infrastructure management
and energy management go hand-in-hand.
Deliver more energy savings with StruxureWare for Data Centers software.
Energy management and DCIM, sitting in a tree, S-A-V-I-N-G …
In the past, energy management was all about hardware. Saving energy
meant making IT physical infrastructure improvements: equipment upgrades,
rightsizing, floor layout changes, and so on. While these strategies are still an
important part of any energy management practice, we now have software tools
to approach data center efficiency from a new angle.
As an advanced data center infrastructure (DCIM) management tool,
StruxureWare™ for Data Centers software provides all-seeing and all-knowing
intelligence across your customers’ data centers. This visibility enables your
customers to eliminate guesswork, in turn making better decisions. Our
sophisticated yet simple-to-use tool collects data, uncovers insights, and
then provides actionable information. The result? Your customers will better
understand how to manage their energy more effectively.
End-to-end data
center visibility
enables your
customers to
eliminate guesswork.
5 ways our advanced DCIM tool improves
energy management:
1 Minimize ... wasted rack space and improperly placed servers.
Our DCIM software is like a crystal ball into your customers’ data centers. It provides total visibility
into both the IT loads and the power and cooling systems. Because it has this integrated view,
it can model all layout possibilities in order to determine the optimal placement for racks and
servers, thus maximizing capacity, rightsizing power and cooling systems, and preventing waste.
2 Prevent ... unexpected downtime.
With so many outages due to operational errors — often caused by a lack of documentation for IT
infrastructure — advanced DCIM is an attractive solution for reducing this unintentional downtime.
Through a holistic view of the data center, areas are identified within the IT physical infrastructure that
are likely to fail, or are operating outside acceptable parameters.
3 Enable ... your customers to account for energy use, and map energy use against services and workload.
You can’t control what you can’t measure. So in order to save energy, your customers need to
understand how it’s being used, which is tough to do manually. Integrated DCIM measures and
links actual energy needs to energy usage, collects historical and current power usage effectiveness
(PUE)1, and analyzes energy use and cost for each data center subsystem. This capability helps your
customers make better decisions for more effective energy management.
4 Make up ... for staffing and budget shortages, so energy management goals are easier to achieve.
Your customers face a dilemma: They need to lower costs, so they reduce staff, cut the budget,
and pursue energy management. But without end-to-end DCIM, many energy management
tasks — performance tweaks, on-going monitoring, etc. — actually require more staff resources!
StruxureWare for Data Centers software automates many tasks previously thought to be too
labor-intensive. It watches over the data center 24/7, alerts your customers if something isn’t
right, all while measuring, analyzing, and providing insights on how to reduce energy use.
5 Notify ... your customers what power-drawing devices are currently doing.
Zombie servers, vampire loads — since when did the data center get so ghastly? Our DCIM
keeps track of all your customers’ dreaded power-sucking devices, so your customers always
know if evil energy wasters are afoot. The result? Easy energy savings that couldn’t exist without
such extensive visibility.
Deliver more energy savings
Now that cutting energy costs is on almost every IT department’s agenda, you’re in a prime
position to earn business by helping your customers manage energy effectively. In order to do
this, your customers need to be able to see their energy use, understand it, and act on it. The
best way to offer this degree of visibility and control is with advanced DCIM.
Boost your customers’ energy savings!
Watch our whiteboard video, “Energy Management Made Easy,”
to learn how Struxureware Energy Operation software enables
better energy management.
1 Power usage effectiveness is the ratio of a facility’s total power draw to the IT load’s power draw. It is used to understand
the efficiency of data center physical infrastructure.
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