AUTOMSOFT AND POWER ANALYTICS DATA CENTER WHITE SPACE MANAGEMENT REALIZED INTRODUCTION • Power Analytics – leading edge provider of analytical software for the power and energy management in mission critical and related industries for over six years. • Automsoft - one of the world’s leading providers of advanced data historian and process optimization solutions that provide international customers with powerful and secure high-speed data retrieval, vast storage capacity, complex analysis and sophisticated visualization. 4/16/2014 • Automsoft and Power Analytics partnership focusing on overcoming the limitations of current data center infrastructure management practices of power distribution of the data center White Space. Copyright Power Analytics © 2014. All Rights Reserved. 2 HARDWARE PROVISIONING IN DATA CENTER • Begins with a detailed analysis of the power infrastructure. • The dynamics of hardware provisioning in a data center is much more complicated and relevant after the facility is fully operational. • Data center infrastructure management tools attempt to manage availability, capacity, and efficiency of the operation. • Customer satisfaction and operational profitability (it is an asset contributing to bottom line of an enterprise) are directly related to the skillfulness of those responsible for hardware provisioning in a constantly changing environment. 4/16/2014 Copyright Power Analytics © 2014. All Rights Reserved. 3 STEPS TO THE SOLUTION • Adoption of Branch Circuit Monitoring (BCM) – requirement for power infrastructure management Branch Circuit Monitoring Systems Rack Asset Management • Measuring / monitoring are essential for management • Branch Circuit data ( voltage, current, power factor, circuit breaker status, number of electrical poles ) must be related to the location of the energy consuming loads to manage energy costs, the allocation of energy costs, and, ultimately, service level agreements. 4/16/2014 Automsoft and Power Analytics Power / Energy Management Copyright Power Analytics © 2014. All Rights Reserved. 4 SYSTEM LEVEL INTEGRATION AU TO M S O F T A N D P OW E R A N A LY T I C S Paladin WSM integrated with Automsoft rapidHistorian™ delivers an information-rich, real time, dynamic, accurate view of the distribution of power in the White Space how much, to what equipment, and for whom. This is information which can readily be used by Facilities and IT management to optimize the availability, capacity, and efficiency of their data processing enterprise. 4/16/2014 Copyright Power Analytics © 2014. All Rights Reserved. 5