Pacific Controls offers a unique data center infrastructure managed services (DCIM), that bring together information technology (IT) and facility management to centralize monitoring, management and intelligent capacity planning for all the data center's critical systems. Using Pacific Controls’ DCIM, Data center owners can reduce their costs by detecting unused servers and turning them off, by virtualizing servers while monitoring central processor units (CPU) for overloading, automatically switching to low power modes at night and by delaying upgrades to uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and backup generator sets until it is really necessary.

Pacific Controls provide a holistic view of the facility's data center infrastructure. Pacific Controls specialized software, hardware and sensors link the data center to the Galaxy 2021 platform which acts as a single common, real-time monitoring and management platform for all interdependent systems across both the IT and facility infrastructure. Pacific Controls’ Managed Service can be used to identify interdependencies between facility and IT infrastructures to alert the facility manager to gaps in system redundancy, and to provide dynamic, holistic benchmarks on power consumption and efficiency to measure the effectiveness of ‘green IT’ initiatives.

Pacific Controls Managed DCIM service makes intelligent capacity planning possible, through the synchronized monitoring and management of both physical and virtual infrastructure. It allows the aggregation and correlation of real-time data from heterogeneous infrastructure to provide data center managers with a single centralized repository of performance and resource usage information at the Command Center. Data center managers can use Gbots to automate the management of IT applications based on both server capacity and conditions within the data center's physical infrastructure. This helps optimize the performance, reliability and efficiency of the entire data center infrastructure, increasing energy efficiency and reducing overall energy use.

Data Centers are the most energy intensive of all assets. By measuring a number of different KPIs, and thorough active management using GBOTS, energy efficiency can be enhanced. Typically the following KPIs are calculated by Pacific Controls Galaxy 2021 Platform:

• Data center infrastructure efficiency (DCIE)
• Power usage effectiveness (PUE).
• Data center energy productivity (DCeP)
• Bits per kWh uses the outbound data streams as the measure of useful work.
• Weighted CPU Utilization
• Operating System Workload Efficiency.

Additionally, to take into account more variables, Pacific Controls managed service captures overall efficiency in matrices that measure the utilization of various assets throughout the data center, which may include, floor space, Rack space, Cooling capacity, Power capacity, CPU and network utilization (time averaged) and Storage utilization. A number of additional KPIs can be measured to determine and enhance the efficiency of data centers.

Key Benefits

Data Center Equipment Suppliers:

• Data center equipment manufacturers can derive additional revenues by offering their customers premium monitoring and management services through a single interface that connects all the equipment they have deployed.
• They can offer predictive maintenance services to ensure the equipment reliability and availability
• They can also offer energy management services, to reduce the carbon footprint of the data center.
• They can offer intelligent capacity planning services for clients who wish to extend their infrastructure.
• Pacific Controls’ Service allows equipment suppliers to establish an on-going relationship with data center operators
• The Service provides a central data depository for analysis that will enhance R & D.

Data Center Owners:

• Help enhance overall efficiency of data center operations
• Help understand and track thresholds at which action must be taken for variables such as CPU usage, temperature and humidity.
• Effective capacity planning can be undertaken, while efficiently using current capacity
• Automation of numerous tasks through GBOTS can help optimize use of scarce data center expert resources.
• Reduce energy consumption and carbon footprints
• Optimize cost of data center operations
• Enhance availability by avoiding equipment downtime through predictive maintenance.

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