PowerVU Energy Monitoring Software (PUE)

Data Centre Solutions

Energy efficiency is the most important data centre issue today. PowerVU software offers you the insight you need to maximize your energy efficiency and control your power costs.

Jim Smith (Chief Technology Officer at Digital Realty Trust) explains how PowerVU monitoring software can help manage and track energy usage in the data centre.

Enhancing Your Metering Capability

Managing your energy use is the most critical element of data centre operations today. To augment your monitoring and metering abilities, every Digital Realty Trust Turn-Key Datacentre^® features metered power and PowerVU software. With PowerVU you are able to track and display your energy usage by each metered component to view and track your actual power use in kW/hr as well as your energy demand.

Measuring Your PUE

Power Utilisation Efficiency (PUE) is the industry standard for expressing data centre energy efficiency. With PowerVU software you now have a graphical display of both your PUE and its’ two determinate components:
- Utility Input
- UPS Output
Through this capability you are able to monitor the efficiency of your data centre daily, monthly and annually. One of the primary benefits of this capability is that you are able to use empirical data to more effectively plan and budget for your energy usage.

Analyzing Cause and Effect

The efficiency of your data centre, as measured by your PUE, can be impacted by a number of factors. Even cleaning the roof of your facility may help improve it's energy efficiency. By enabling you to analyze usage down to the component level PowerVU provides you with the ability to manage and assess the impact of modifications that you make to your data centre to determine their impact on your energy usage.

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