Green Data Center

Enable your Green Data Center initiatives with tools that include "Green KPIs" for comprehensive end-to-end capacity planning.

Most enterprise data centers spend as much on power and cooling as they do on servers and hardware. This situation is exacerbated as datacenter density is increased through consolidation and virtualization. Therefore, companies face power supply and related economic constraints when managing and changing their IT infrastructures. To avoid hitting the “green wall” and contain costs, companies must take into account “Green KPIs”, such as power consumption and floor space, when monitoring, forecasting and planning. To be effective, Green Data Center initiatives require tools that include such Green KPIs to enable comprehensive end-to-end capacity planning.

Caplan for Green Data Center

Caplan helps users to effectively support Green Data Center initiatives and get better visibility over the current efficiency of critical facilities in terms of DCiE and PUE indexes and to predict their  future utilization.

Caplan provides:

  • Automated collection of Green KPIs (e.g. power utilization, temperature, humidity and floor space) from major Data Center Management tools (from APC, Emerson, IBM and others) and custom data sources
  • Automated analysis of current usage at different levels (e.g. power utilization at rack, line, room or data center level)
  • Automated prediction of future usage based on sophisticated trending algorithms that can identify incoming critical conditions
  • Automated notification of forecasted issues (e.g. “power saturation at rack level within 3 months”)
  • Detailed reports (on demand, scheduled or by-exception) at different levels
  • Customizable web dashboards providing near real-time visibility over Green KPIs and predicted usage