With automated energy analytics and policy-based optimization, JouleX helps enterprises visualize, analyze and control energy consumption. Using a unique, agentless approach, JouleX continually tracks and reports energy usage for every device connected to the network, enabling you to baseline, monitor and control energy consumption across the enterprise.
JouleX enables a variety of useful energy optimization initiatives, including:
Measuring utilization and energy usage by device.
- Network-based, device-agnostic enterprise energy management system remotely measures energy usage of all network-connected devices and systems in the distributed office, data center and facilities management infrastructure.
- Provides immediate benefits (installs in hours, not days or months) by auto-discovering devices and monitoring and measuring power.
Sustainable procurement.
- Provides actual power consumption, energy cost and environmental impact data for use in procurement process.
- Shows operating expense impact of procuring best-in-class energy efficient IT infrastructure (energy savings can offset the capital costs of some computing devices over their useful life).
- Helps identify real power consumption savings potential based on actual energy demand, not just manufacturers’ faceplate information (which is often overstated).
Enterprise sustainability reporting.
- Reports energy consumption, utilization, costs, savings and carbon emissions by device, location, cost center, division and time of day.
- Supports regulations with carbon accounting requirements and energy usage reporting.
Identification and optimization of existing virtualization/cloud computing environments.
- Gain visibility beyond the PDU and rack to the physical server to allocate energy across virtual machines and applications.
- Pinpoint under-utilized servers and low-density servers consuming the most energy (prime candidates for virtualization).
- Identify dead and idle servers for retirement.
Capacity planning with business and energy context.
- Receive actual data on energy consumption and utilization by device, rack, make, model, etc.
- Improve Power Utilization Efficiency (PUE), Data Center Efficiency/Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCE/DCIE)
- Uncover “stranded” power in data center circuits
Load Adaptive™
Computing
- Allocate the right amount of power only to those devices that need to perform productive work; minimize the energy supplied when idle or operating at less than full capacity.
- Accurately measure system and application utilization and energy loads at the server, virtual machine and application level while dynamically allocating computing resources as they are needed.
Automated demand response programs.
- Includes technical devices as part of a utilities-sponsored demand response program.
- Helps control energy costs with policies that reduce consumption during peak pricing times and situations.
Power management for the distributed office.
- Supports devices ranging from PC/Macs, laptops, desktops, monitors, copiers, printers, VoIP phones to servers, switches, routers and storage/facilities equipment like lighting and HVAC systems.
- Automated policies can actively power down idle, unproductive office equipment saving 30-60 percent in energy costs.
- Provides opt-in/opt-out policies for end users.
- Provides ability to power on/off equipment using mobile devices such as an iPhone.
- No expensive software or device agents or hardware meters to purchase, deploy and maintain.
- No changes to network configurations or security required.