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Datacenter Case Study – Minimizing lost IT loading capacity through the virtual facility approach

by Sherman Ikemoto

The initial capital cost of a data center facility runs anywhere from $10 to $30 million per megawatt of IT capacity. Despite these high costs, the average data center strands between 25% to 40% of its IT loading capacity through inefficient data-center equipment layout and management. As such, substantial financial losses are routinely incurred through lost IT loading…

Continuous Modeling ( #datacenter continuous modeling )

Posted by: Margaret Rouse

Continuous modeling is an approach to data center management that supplements infrastructure management (DCIM) tools with engineering simulation tools.

Traditional DCIM management tools provide administrators with a federated view of an organization’s building management system (BMS), IT asset management (IAM) and network management system (NMS). For a data center to…

ACE: A new approach to scoring #datacenter performance

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Business requirements that change continuously. This change drives change in the data center. The data center is meant to be a flexible, blank slate upon which IT services are quickly built, dismantled and reconfigured continuously to enable business agility. But how agile is your data center? Can you quantify the cost and risk of changing the data center…

Modeling the Data Center Lifecycle Presenter: Sherman Ikemoto, Director, Future Facilities Inc.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014 4:10 – 4:40 p.m. Data centers are a key component of modern companies. Senior management in these enterprises assume that future IT-related changes demanded by the business can be accommodated within their data center infrastructures. Alas, this demand for…

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This paper, written for CxOs and senior managers in the data center owner-operator business, describes how Future Facilities’ ACE performance score and predictive modeling were used to save $10 million in one data center. It follows on from Five Reasons your Data Center’s Availability, Capacity and Efficiency are being Compromised and describes how Future…

Executive Summary Data center owner-operators are increasingly looking for solutions to minimize total cost of ownership, cost per kW of IT load, and downtime. This paper explains the five main contributors to runaway data center costs, then introduces the ACE performance score and the continuous modeling process. Using both, this paper briefly explains how they are helping owner-operators save…

451 Recorded Webcast: Why an energy-efficient data center may not be the most profitable data center

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Many data center facilities focus on improving the infrastructure efficiency, measured by PUE (Power Utilization Effectiveness), but a single minded focus on that metric will often yield perverse results, such as low equipment utilization, stranded…