50 Benefits of Data Center Energy Management Software

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This is Viridity’s fiftieth Data Center Energy blog post so we wanted to do something special. We present to you 50 benefits of data center energy management software!

1. Reduce your power bill
2. Become environmentally friendly
3. Improve your PUE rating
4. Increase your useful server density
5. Avoid rolling data center brownouts
6. Improve ROI on technology refresh
7. Connect your data center to your business objectives
8. Remove under-utilized servers
9. Identify the best servers for consolidation
10. Find space to deploy new equipment
11. Reduce your cooling requirements
12. Discover your entire inventory automatically
13. Find virtualization candidates
14. Improve power provisioning
15. Plan out power requirements for new data centers
16. Discover utilization and power consumption down to the device level
17. Avoid having to add hundreds of costly sensors across your data centers
18. Baseline the energy requirements for newly acquired data centers
19. Identify servers for potential retirement
20. Measure gains from green IT initiatives (before and after)
21. Earn rebates and incentives for server consolidation and removal
22. Locate the ideal rack space to deploy new equipment
23. Find power in your data center you didn’t know you had
24. Improve capacity planning
25. Speed up data center consolidation from M&A
26. Justify the ROI of your next efficiency project with real data
27. Increase data center uptime
28. Facilitate communication between data center, IT, and facilities management
29. Balance power and cooling
30. Replace manual derating of vendor power specs with actual consumption
31. Understand power consumption at the row, rack, device, and component levels
32. Defer the need for costly data center expansion
33. Get ahead of impending government legislation
34. Stop relying on manual data entry and spreadsheets
35. Improve IT performance by tracking utilization
36. Understand how much power you actually have left in your data center
37. Right size your data center
38. Avoid misleading, one time snap-shots of power consumption
39. Decrease test lab operating costs
40. Deploy new applications on your most efficient servers
41. Manage the energy resources of multiple data centers from a single location
42. Factor actual equipment efficiency into total cost of ownership
43. Eliminate hot spots by distributing high utilization servers
44. Double your lifespan (just making sure you are still reading :-) )
45. Reduce your carbon footprint
46. Improve sustainability
47. Aggregate information on power distribution from PDU’s and BCM’s
48. Reduce cooling costs
49. Capture peak loads under compute stress
50. Put a huge smile on your CFO’s face!