As Energy Managers worldwide are looking at ways to implement energy saving strategies, and IT departments are trying to maximize the effectiveness of the energy they use, each of these departments are beginning to recognize the need to work with one another to achieve the results they are looking for.
From our extensive time collaborating with Facilities, Energy, and IT/Data Center managers, we have learned that although all of these departments have the same goals and needs, they are challenged with learning an entirely new way to work together and, often times, a whole new language to speak.
With the information we've gathered, our team has produced a new white paper focused on helping these departments learn to Bridge the Gap between Facilities and IT to Reduce Energy Costs across the Enterprise.
We value your feedback. Please leave us your suggestions for Bridging the Gap in the comments section.
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It's time for another Friday Roundup from the JouleX team. We share some of the great articles about JouleX and articles from around the web that we found to be informative. We hope you'll enjoy them.
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- Indian researcher says Japan is lagging on energy efficiency- "This article from Japan’s newservice, Asahi Shimbun, highlights some disturbing news if Japan is to fully transform its energy sector, following the Fukushima nuclear disaster."
- 5 fun data center facts from the Uptime Institute - "It’s a tough economy out there. That’s why some figures from the new Uptime Institute’s 2012 Data Center Industry Survey might surprise those who would expect spending on data center infrastructure to be cut to the bone."
- Tackling Energy in the Data Center with Cisco UCS and the JouleX Energy Manager - "Today’s best server platforms are now being built with the ability to leverage power management on a granular level in the data center, making power just another managed resource to the blade chassis."
- How Hilton measures sustainability - It's great to see hotels coming around to real sustainability initiatives.
- Technology’s role in sustainable business carries more weight - "Well-designed IT infrastructure is an increasingly vital piece of the puzzle for managing energy costs and natural resources such as water. That reality is reflected in new predictions suggesting that big U.S. companies plan to spend at least $2.5 billion on technology consulting and systems integration related to sustainability by 2015."
- No escaping network-based IT power management - "Cisco is pushing hard to get enterprises to start leveraging EnergyWise-based technologies. Cisco unveiled a Fast-Start EnergyWise program at Cisco Live recently. The program offers JouleX's product for free with Cisco's Catalyst 3K and 4K switches."
- European data centres flourish, but power crisis lies ahead - "The importance of the "Big 4" European data centre markets... will increase over the next three years, with presence in all four markets becoming a major competitive differentiator by 2016, but power shortages could lead to problems in the future"
- Top 50 Sustainability Have You's -
"I think it is good that so many of us are talking about CSR Sustainability issues, challenges and experiences and churning out posts on our blogs. And while it is great to keep writing, to keep soliciting opinions, to keep debating, it doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t sometimes stop and make it simpler, so that a novice can get what we are trying to say and to be able to use that knowledge."
We'd love to know what articles caught your eye this week! Please share them in the comments section.
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With energy prices rising worldwide, and the ever growing compute demands placed on them, the need for comprehensive and centralized power management in the data center has taken center stage over the last few years.
Today’s best server platforms are now being built with the ability to do power management within the blade and server chassis. This gives you the ability to leverage power management on a granular level in the data center, making power just another managed resource to the blade chassis.
This newly available ability to power manage individual servers has become both a blessing and a curse to data center managers. Being able to assign rules on each server or chassis for certain times of day or with certain conditions being met is a powerful capability. With tens of thousands of machines in a data center, any benefits found by reducing power consumption are wasted on the labor needed to manage the process.
Cisco UCS takes control a step further with their integrated power management approach, providing you additional capabilities for things such as; integrated power data into building management systems, and allowing outside control vectors to control the way power is consumed inside the blade chassis.
The main advantage that UCS has over all other Intel OEM partners is that Cisco’s UCS power manager allows a centralized approach across the whole server deployment, while their competitors are limited to managing by chassis or by blade. This is a huge benefit for data centers when it comes to large scale deployments.
By pairing Cisco UCS with JouleX Energy Manager’s Load Adaptive Computing capabilities, these managed resources can be assigned rules so that at certain times of day or under certain conditions you can manage how much power is used. That ability will automatically effect how utilized the blades are by allowing you to better align processing loads to power utilization, better align power to my needs, and reduce overall power errors due to failures inside of the data center.
JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) really enables the load adaptive computing usability as you are able to:
- Forecast how much energy / utilization you will need in the next minutes / hours.
- JEM can not only include UCS systems but also other IP attached devices such as facility management systems, storage networking, and other data center assets.
- JEM integrates with the virtual layer to provide additional insight to the virtualized assets with Load Adaptive Computing.
- JEM provides additional analytics to go along with energy, such as utilization, fan speed, temperature, and other analytics.
- JEM also integrates with networking platforms, such as Cisco’s EnergyWise and Nexus, to make the switches part of the overall data center energy view.
Want to learn more about the Cisco UCS integrated power management capabilities? Check out their new whitepaper.
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Haven't had a chance to see the JouleX Energy Manager in action yet? Check out the new video produced by JouleX Premier Partner, NG Bailey. NG Bailey makes a compelling case for reducing energy across the enterprise using the JouleX Energy Manager.
JouleX is proud to be working with great partners like NG Bailey and we really appreciate them producing this great video!
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