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Follow on Google News | Future Facilities Introduces ACE Performance Assessment for Data CentersACE Performance Score quantifies available data center capacity, availability and efficiency, allowing owner-operators to decide how to maximize their data center performance.
By: Future Facilities The ACE Performance Score enables data center owner-operators to accurately track and improve the performance of their data centers. Critically, it allows them to do so in a sustainable and repeatable way, meaning that they can exercise much greater control over increases in downtime, cost per kW of IT load, and total cost of ownership. The score is derived from the three interconnected variables that ultimately determine how costly a data center is: Availability (uptime and resilience), physical Capacity and cooling Efficiency (ACE). It presents a new way of assessing, balancing and visualising these critical indicators of data center performance. ACE Performance Score works by mapping data (for example, inventory and "real-time" power) from DCIM toolsets into a powerful 3D virtual facility model. With that automated process accomplished, it then simulates the resulting distribution of airflow and temperature in the space. This confluence of predictive modelling and DCIM data is called Predictive Modelling for DCIM. Hassan Moezzi, Future Facilities (http://www.futurefacilities.com/ This is all possible because the ACE Performance Score plots the data center’s Performance Gap – the difference between maximum design potential and what can be achieved in day-to-day data center operations. Once the performance gap has been identified, data center professionals can make informed decisions about which variables to protect, which to sacrifice, where to save money, how to lessen the impact of change and how to ensure data center investments are maximized. The score is arrived at by means of Future Facilities’ ACE Data Center Performance Assessment service. This measures data center performance at any point in time, provides a comparison against the original design intent, and allows the owner-operator to decide which of the variables to protect and which to sacrifice in order to meet their operational goals. And it’s not all hot air. In trials of the ACE Performance Score, Future Facilities saved a major financial institution $10m by assessing and improving a single 24,000ft2 data center. This was a well-run center with an extensive DCIM toolset, too. For more details, please contact Future Facilities on +44 (0) 207 840 9540 or visit http://www.futurefacilities.com/ ==ends== About Future Facilities Since 2004, Future Facilities has provided predictive modelling software and consultancy services to the world’s largest data center owner-operators, and to the industry’s leading consultancies. Future Facilities’ 6SigmaDC software suite optimizes data center utilization through continuous modelling, allowing data center owner-operators to choose how to balance availability, capacity and efficiency in a way that has been proven to save millions of dollars per data hall. Innovative and progressive, Future Facilities is today unique in the data center market place; the only company offering an holistic solution for the data center lifecycle – from inception through to operation. Additional information can be found at http://www.futurefacilities.com. For Further Information Hassan Moezzi Future Facilities Limited hassan.moezzi( +44 (0) 20 7840 9540 http://www.futurefacilities.com Press Information Scott Purchas SPA Communications Limited spuchas(at)spacomms( +44 (0) 1892 511413 http://www.spacomms.co.uk End
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