Green Initiative

Energy Consumption

Data center energy consumption has been driven by the demand within almost every organization for greater computing capacity and increased IT centralization. While this was occurring, global electricity prices increased 56 percent between 2002 and 2006.

The financial implications are significant; estimates of annual power costs for U.S. data centers now range as high as $3.3 billion.

This trend impacts data center capacity as well. According to the Fall 2007 Survey of the Data Center Users Group (DCUG®), an influential group of data center managers, power limitations were cited as the primary factor limiting growth by 46 percent of respondents, more than any other factor.

Power Infrastructure

Efficient IT Technology

Data center managers and designers, IT equipment manufacturers and infrastructure providers must all collaborate to truly optimize data center efficiency.

For data center managers, there are a number of actions that can be taken today that can significantly drive down energy consumption while freeing physical space and power and cooling capacity to support growth.

Energy reduction initiatives should begin with policies that encourage the use of efficient IT technologies, specifically low power processors and high-efficiency power supplies. This will allow more efficient technologies to be introduced into the data center as part of the normal equipment replacement cycle.

Power management software should also be considered in applications where it is appropriate as it may provide greater savings than any other single technology, depending on data center utilization.

Highly efficient Cisco Powered Network

Clean Fire Suppression

CFCs, Halons and other chemicals are destroying the vital ozone layer that protects us. ECARO-25 clean agent fire protection systems feature the non-ozone depleting clean agent FE-25™ from DuPont™, providing our customers with the fire protection they need and still protecting the earth's precious ozone layer. Now is the time to save the ozone and our planet.

*The Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) Program is the EPA's program to evaluate and regulate substitutes for the ozone-depleting chemicals that are being phased out under the stratospheric ozone protection provisions of the Clean Air Act (CAA).

http://www.epa.gov/Ozone/snap/index.html

Ozone friendly ECARO-25

Precision Cooling System

Precision cooling systems provide efficient, precise, reliable control of room temperature, humidity and airflow for proper operation of critical electronic equipment.

Systems exceed the most stringent government efficiency requirements with NEMA premium efficiency motors. The units can run at 25% load on 15% power usage.

Flexibility:

  • Complete environmental control package, including both precision air conditioning and humidity control.
  • Flexible cooling capacity via variable capacity compressors.
  • High-level supervision with Liebert iCOM controls, allowing networking of multiple mission-critical cooling units.

Higher Availability:

  • Reliable refrigeration components, including dual compressors, A-frame evaporator coils, all factory pre-piped, wired, and tested.
  • Redundancy with dual refrigeration circuits.
Intelligent Cooling systems