Greentech Lead India:
Emerson Network Power has launched Energy Logic 2.0 Cascading Savings
Calculator, an online tool that allows data center managers to calculate the
approximate energy savings they would capture by employing strategies in the
updated approach.
The company also announced its Energy Logic 2.0, a
vendor-neutral roadmap of 10 strategies that can reduce a data center’s energy
use by up to 74 percent. The new approach is an update to the original Energy
Logic, introduced in 2007, and incorporates the advances in technology and best
practices that have emerged in the past five years.
Energy Logic 2.0 illustrates how the energy consumption of a
5,000 square-foot data center could be cut by up to 74 percent using available
technologies. It leverages the company’s cascade effect that quantifies how
savings at the IT component level are magnified in the supporting systems,
recommending an overall approach that focuses on optimizing the efficiency of
core IT systems to drive the greatest savings.
In a data center with a PUE of 1.9, a 1 W savings at the
server processor creates a 2.84 W savings at the facility level as a result of
the cascade effect. At higher PUEs, the savings is even greater.
Energy Logic 2.0 shows how the energy consumption of the
base data center can be reduced from 1,543 kW to 408 kW. Key strategies, such
as high-efficiency server components, power architecture improvements, and
temperature and airflow management have been updated to reflect recent
technological advances.
In the new approach server consolidation and virtualization
are now treated as one strategy because they typically happen in concert. The
optimized Energy Logic data center in 2007 assumed 20 percent virtualization,
whereas the un-optimized data center in 2012 assumes 30 percent virtualization.
Emerson has also highlighted Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) architecture as an emerging best practice that
delivers energy savings by optimizing IT and networking architecture. Energy
Logic 2.0 also incorporates the emergence of data center infrastructure
management (DCIM).
“Energy efficiency remains a priority, and a new generation
of management technologies that provide greater visibility and control of data
center systems has arrived,” said Jack Pouchet, vice president of business
development and director of energy initiatives for Emerson Network Power. “The
data center industry is better positioned than ever to make a serious impact in
reducing overall data center energy consumption.”
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