| de, organizations are seeking energy-saving initiatives | | | | meeting business objectives? How do they get best |
| to check rising costs and carbon emissions as they | | | | return on investment (ROI)? |
| have to manage their power-hungry data centers. | | | | If an organization purchases even a well-designed, |
| Further, these data centers consume more energy | | | | up-to-date data center, it depends heavily on Facilities |
| than necessary and the organizations are obstructed | | | | systems over which the IT team rarely has much |
| by a division between IT and Facilities, which are | | | | visibility or control for its working efficiently. Hence, |
| both inter-dependent. | | | | there is real time need for a collaborative effort from |
| If IT and Facilities could work collaboratively, | | | | the two independent systems so that they can |
| organizations can operate more efficiently and | | | | support systems that impact service level |
| effectively while still meeting their business | | | | agreements (SLAs), reliability, costs and carbon |
| objectives. It means that with converging | | | | footprint. |
| interdependent functions, organizations can serve | | | | Unified monitoring—the essential foundation for |
| dynamics to respond energy conditions, balancing | | | | convergence |
| workloads and improve efficiency with optimum | | | | Organizations can unite the IT and Facilities |
| power usages. | | | | infrastructure, which optimizes real-time visibility into |
| The necessary convergence of IT and Facilities | | | | power conditions and both systems, can easily see |
| In our data centers, the amount of digital data being | | | | when abnormal conditions threaten the IT |
| stored, shared and manipulated is growing fast as | | | | infrastructure and exactly which business services are |
| much as 25-50 percent a year. To handle such | | | | at risk. For example, after an overload in the circuit, |
| growth, according to latest data, we require at least | | | | send an alert notification to IT and Facilities, which |
| 600 percent increase in server installations and | | | | should trigger the system to work on the |
| storage expanding nearly 70 times in the first decade | | | | re-scheduling of the loads on the data center. |
| of next millennium. This enthusiastic growth comes at | | | | Capabilities made possible by converging IT and |
| a price and requirement for more energy leading to | | | | Facilities |
| more operational energy. | | | | It will monitor power and thermal information, alerting |
| The IT department can tell you exact server | | | | the IT about it. It will incorporate energy into Facilities |
| utilization, computing capacity and network traffic, | | | | asset management workflows and control its power |
| but available power capacity, battery runtime | | | | usage. The firm can track all the changes in energy |
| available and cooling capacity is determined by | | | | usage over time and draft its policy accordingly. Now, |
| Facilities. If both group work separately, the optimum | | | | the firm can determine optimal location for new |
| balance between cost and reliability will get disturbed. | | | | servers and also tries for government rebates and |
| Hence, the potential efficiencies and advantages are | | | | incentives. |
| missed altogether. For example, the low priced server | | | | Conclusion |
| might be so power-hungry that it is the costlier | | | | In the typical firm, IT and Facilities teams operate |
| choice over the long term. | | | | independently, but if they work in a holistic approach, |
| Now, organizations have to check, whether they can | | | | they can optimize its function and can dramatically |
| reduce energy costs and carbon footprint while | | | | change the performance of the company. |