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50 Benefits of Data Center Energy Management Software

  
  
  
  

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!

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