CIO Briefing | Site Consolidation | Data Center Readiness Planning
To Become More Strategic, IT Needs to Drive Green Projects
IT departments that reduce energy usage in the data center are well positioned to lead the energy-savings initiatives across their organization.
Companies today are finding that ‘going green’ is not only environmentally responsible,
it is also fiscally smart. Decreasing the amount that organizations consume and dispose of helps reduce company carbon footprints and costs.
Capturing and analyzing energy usage improves management decision-making by revealing areas of opportunity and ways to measure success.
Servers
Although the servers and storage account for less than a quarter of the total power consumed in IT, smart improvements made here will result in almost immediate and dramatic changes. And because these results aren’t dependent on motivating a large pool of users to change their behavior, they’re more predictable and provide more “bang for the buck.”
Green Computing Saves Green
The good news is, by embracing simple, everyday green computing practices, you can improve energy management, increase energy efficiency, reduce e-waste, and save money in the process! By incorporating automated power management tools company-wide can have dramatic results, since PCs and monitors account for 39 percent of IT power consumption. In a typical desktop computer, nearly half the power coming out of the wall is wasted and never reaches the processor, memory, disks or other components.
Data Center Cooling
Map out the power density in your data center by racks, and design airflow and cooling capacity specific to the power densities. Cooling accounts for 50 percent or more of data center power costs. Consider installing sensors, moving existing equipment to match requirements, separating hot/cool airflows, and enclosing rack aisles.
- Cooling account for 50% of more of data center power costs
- The added heat from inefficient computers can increase the demand on air conditioners and cooling systems, making your computing equipment even more expensive to run.
Storage Virtualization
Another big opportunity in the data center involves taking the consolidation efforts at the heart of server virtualization and extending them further. Emerging storage virtualization enhancements such as de-duplication and thin provisioning can reduce as much as 70 percent of data transfer activities by reducing the need to over-provision and removing redundant data from active management.
CIO Briefing | Site Consolidation | Data Center Readiness Planning
Centralized Management
Today’s data center management environment encompasses many devices and applications. This complex environment can include in-band and out-of-band access, power control and management solutions of different technologies, vendors and product generations. Simple, speedy and secure ways to provide services and problem resolution are therefore necessary to locate, access and utilize different components in the IT environment.
A centralized management solution provides you with a simplified yet flexible single point of access to all of your devices. It offers a comprehensive and granular system for controlling and auditing all user and administrator transactions. It can help simplify processes, and give you an expedited method to reduce the time you need to resolve problems. Plus it has a solid ability to conform and comply with company and industry security procedures and standards
Quick Fact:
- Secure, Centralized management of infrastructure via a single interface
Auto discovery of appliances - Hub and spoke architecture for redundancy, real-time updates and load balancing across multiple sites
- Diagnostic testing from a desktop – across the hall or around the globe
Detailed audit logs and reporting - Automated updates, file loading and scheduling
CIO Briefing | Site Consolidation | Data Center Readiness Planning
Co-Locations
Colocation facilities are equipped with ultra reliable connectivity, multiple high-speed fiber networks, and the latest in physical and digital security to service and protect your online initiative. Secure twenty-four-hours a day access to their equipment enables customers to maintain complete control of their hardware without having to manage the physical plant associated with a data center environment.
Disaster Recovery
As companies grow more and more dependent on reliable infrastructure the need for an alternative from the status quo has emerged. Beyond planning against catastrophic events, businesses must now hedge against increasingly more common every-day "disasters" like power failure, loss of communications connectivity, and financial problems of key vendors. Disaster Recovery and Outsourced Data Center Services from ColoSpace allow you to focus on your core business and eliminate the possibility of such every day disasters.
Off Site Data Center and Operations Space
Aserdiv’s colocation services offers off-site data center and operations space in flexible footprints at each of our locations. Space is configured according to customer specifications, and both high-speed Internet or private lines can be installed for contingency operations.
Off Site Environment
Aserdiv provides complete "Hot Site" contingency environments for customers who need an outsourced Disaster Recovery solution. This option can include all necessary hardware, software, and managed services to setup and maintain an alternate Data Center location.
CIO Briefing | Site Consolidation | Data Center Readiness Planning
Green Initiatives
To Become More Strategic, IT Needs to Drive Green Projects
IT departments that reduce energy usage in the data center are well positioned to lead the energy-savings initiatives across their organization.
Companies today are finding that ‘going green’ is not only environmentally responsible, it is also fiscally smart. Decreasing the amount that organizations consume and dispose of helps reduce company carbon footprints and costs.
Capturing and analyzing energy usage improves management decision-making by revealing areas of opportunity and ways to measure success.
Servers
Although the servers and storage account for less than a quarter of the total power consumed in IT, smart improvements made here will result in almost immediate and dramatic changes. And because these results aren’t dependent on motivating a large pool of users to change their behavior, they’re more predictable and provide more “bang for the buck.”
Green Computing Saves Green
The good news is, by embracing simple, everyday green computing practices, you can improve energy management, increase energy efficiency, reduce e-waste, and save money in the process! By incorporating automated power management tools company-wide can have dramatic results, since PCs and monitors account for 39 percent of IT power consumption. In a typical desktop computer, nearly half the power coming out of the wall is wasted and never reaches the processor, memory, disks or other components.
Data Center Cooling
Map out the power density in your data center by racks, and design airflow and cooling capacity specific to the power densities. Cooling accounts for 50 percent or more of data center power costs. Consider installing sensors, moving existing equipment to match requirements, separating hot/cool airflows, and enclosing rack aisles.
- Cooling account for 50% of more of data center power costs
- The added heat from inefficient computers can increase the demand on air conditioners and cooling systems, making your computing equipment even more expensive to run.
Storage Virtualization
Another big opportunity in the data center involves taking the consolidation efforts at the heart of server virtualization and extending them further. Emerging storage virtualization enhancements such as de-duplication and thin provisioning can reduce as much as 70 percent of data transfer activities by reducing the need to over-provision and removing redundant data from active management
CIO Briefing | Site Consolidation | Data Center Readiness Planning
Power Distribution & Management
Power Management
Aserdiv’s Power Management solutions simplify access and control of your data center's power resources. Our technology also enables IT administrators and facilities managers to improve systems uptime and staff productivity, make smarter capacity planning decisions, and efficiently utilize energy to save power and money.
Aserdiv’s Power Manager helps you:
- Measure and Monitor overall IT energy consumption
- Understand available power capacity
- Measure IT energy cost
Rack Power Distribution Units
Our power distribution units (PDUs) provide Data Center Managers with the knowledge and control they need to improve operational productivity and power efficiency. PDUs are mounted in an IT equipment rack and provide electrical power to various IT devices such as servers, routers, firewalls, etc. Today, PDUs come in a number of configurations that help you manage power in the data center.
Aserdiv’s Power Distribution helps you:
- Improve uptime and staff productivity
- Efficiently utilize power resources
- Make informed capacity planning decisions
- Save power and money
- Take a step towards becoming a more green data center
CIO Briefing | Site Consolidation | Data Center Readiness Planning
Security & Environmental Monitoring
Protect your Network-critical Physical Infrastructure from physical and environmental threats
Real time monitoring of your IT infrastructure for physical threats should be a key component of IT administrators’ overall strategy to ensure availability and prevent downtime. Aserdiv’s Security and Environmental monitoring solutions provide the capability of detecting and alarming when a threat has been identified. From a single IP-enabled device, administrators can monitor for environmental threats such as temperature, humidity, leak as well as intrusion detection and real-time video surveillance
Security & Environmental Solutions for RACKS
Keeping the racks and enclosures in your data center safe and secure should incorporate more than the latest digital security solutions. Physical security and environmental monitoring are key to protecting the resources in your racks and enclosures. APC environmental solutions monitor conditions in each rack such as temperature, humidity, and airflow. The scalable solutions easily expand to monitor large numbers of racks, and can be customized with the appropriate sensors deployed in strategic locations for optimal monitoring.
Security & Environmental Solutions for ROOMS
As the IP environment expands to touch all aspects of your business, important systems and resources are often kept in sub-optimal rooms and closets that are usually unmanned. This combination of distributed resources and unoccupied spaces is an ideal situation for the introduction of physical threats.
Aserdiv’s environmental solutions monitor conditions such as temperature, humidity, and water leaks in closets and rooms. Rack and wall-mount environmental monitoring appliances and low-profile sensors are easily installed for seamless incorporation into your rooms. In addition to monitoring the environmental conditions of rooms, physical security solutions for rooms includes video monitoring, which captures a visual record each time a person accesses a remote room.