Energy consumption and environmental concerns are becoming priorities because they can impede the ability to grow and respond to organizational IT needs. Many data centers are running out of power and space. They cannot add more servers because they have reached either their power or space limits, or perhaps they have reached the limit of their cooling capacity.
In addition, environmental concerns are becoming priorities because they too can impede a company’s ability to grow. Sustainability is a business imperative. Thus, many data center clients are looking at ways to save energy and cut costs so that the company can continue to grow.
IBM is working to help others, particularly our clients, to chart a course to reap the benefits of lower costs and improved sustainability that running a green data center can provide. Understanding what is possible can speed your journey to an optimized green data center with sustainability designed into both the IT and facilities infrastructures.
Offerings
Leverage STG Lab Services to help achieve substantial energy savings, reduce risk, and get more out of your existing facilities and infrastructure, with minimal capital investment.
- Unlock hidden capacity in the data centre, deferring capital investment, allowing breathing space and time to plan growth
- Save cooling energy to drive down your costs and PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness)
- Model scenarios for change within the Data Centre
- High resolution thermal analysis allows you to optimize safely
- Running too hot? - Reduce risk to systems and uptime by hotspot detection and elimination
- Advice from experts on Data Centre best practices
IT Systems Energy Efficiency Assessment
Client Value Proposition: Increased energy efficiency and decrease power usage.
Client Deliverable: Increased energy efficiency and Analysis of existing IT Systems. Strategic guidance to improve efficiency using less power, cooling & space requirements. Application of proven IT optimization methods to identify energy efficiencies. Estimation of power, cooling resource and space savings.
Server and Storage Power/Cooling Trends and Data Center Best Practices Evaluation
Client Value Proposition: Potential energy savings
Key Client Deliverable: Interactive workshop to review trends issues & energy efficiency associated with IT systems & DC infrastructure. Site report with detailed recommendations & observations for improvements with next steps for IT Systems & DC infrastructure.
Data Center Health Audit
Client Value Proposition: Planning for future requirements
Key Client Deliverable: Interactive workshop to review current physical infrastructure of DC and Facility. Identify and recommend actions to reduce risks associated with the existing infrastructure and improve site availability.
Installation of Cool Blue Rear Door Heat eXchanger (RDHX)
Client Value Proposition: Better use of DC facility resources & hot spot elimination.
Key Client Deliverable: On site evaluation and analysis of existing facility to determine feasibility to deploy RDHX. Evaluate thermal heat load of selected enterprise racks to determine the chilled water cooling requirement. Guidance and direction on installation of RDHX.
Data Center Thermal Analysis and Optimization (CFD)
Client Value Proposition: Allow clients to better plan DC changes.
Key Client Deliverable: On site collection & evaluation of IT systems and DC infrastructure. Develop a CFD model with the existing data to analyze the DC & make recommendations for improvements to IT equipment & DC features. Simulate ‘what if’ future scenarios for an efficient future DC.
Data Center Energy Efficiency Optimization (MMT)
Client Value Proposition: Cooling /energy savings, equipment risk & hotspot elimination.
Key Client Deliverable: Measure DC temperature & humidity at multiple levels within the DC using IBM’s MMT cart. Survey Air conditioning equipment, perforated tile flows IT power & equipment. Produce 3d thermal maps of the DC for analysis troubleshooting. Recommend actionable steps to remedy hotspots, reduce risk, improve efficiencies & aid future planning. IT systems and DC infrastructure. Develop a CFD model with the existing data to analyze the DC & make recommendations for improvements to |IT equipment & DC features. Simulate ‘what if’ future scenarios for an efficient future DC.
IT Systems Performance and Power Evaluation (AEM)
Client Value Proposition: Take advantage of IBM’s Server power management features to aid DC efficiencies.
Key Client Deliverable: On site implementation of IBM’s Active Energy Manager solution. Transfer key skills