The document discusses MAID 2.0 storage systems which can intelligently adjust power usage through multiple power saving modes to balance energy savings and performance needs. It compares the energy usage and costs of various storage systems including those that support MAID 2.0. Systems like the Nexsan SATABeast with AutoMAID provide significant energy savings of up to 81% over other solutions while maintaining high performance levels important for secondary storage applications. Tape storage remains suitable for applications that prioritize the lowest energy usage over performance.
Competitive Strategies Benchmarking in Datacenter Infra IndustryAmit Singh
The document profiles competitive strategies of major vendors in the data center physical infrastructure industry. It discusses Schneider Electric's focus on offering integrated energy management solutions globally through its power quality products and services. Schneider aims to build a competitive advantage in data centers by combining efficient energy technology with engineering and project management solutions. The company maintains its product leadership through R&D investment in areas such as ultra-high efficiency UPS, fuel cells, cooling systems and energy management software.
This document discusses how the IBM XIV Storage System is designed to significantly reduce power consumption compared to other storage systems. It achieves over 65% lower power usage through an architecture that optimizes capacity utilization, eliminating unused "orphaned" storage space and using thin provisioning to allocate more virtual storage capacity than actual physical capacity installed. This allows customers to purchase only the storage needed currently while still having room for future growth. The efficient architecture also reduces the amount of hardware required, further cutting power and cooling costs while still providing high-performance storage.
International Standards: The Challenges for an Interoperable Smart GridSchneider Electric
Building an electric energy Smart Grid involves proper interfacing between existing devices, applications and systems – all likely sourced from many different vendors. The resulting interoperability allows valuable advantages, such as the ability to use distribution system demand response (DSDR) to improve the efficiency of delivered power. Interoperability enables automated switching sequences, for system ‘self-healing’ and improved reliability, along with effective integration of distributed renewable and non-renewable resources that can enable peak shaving. Interoperability also is vital for assimilating emerging automation technologies that will enable the utility to realize these benefits in the future – and protect public and private sector technology investments.
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) defines international standards, recognized globally, that characterize interoperability and security of electrical, electronic and related technologies. These standards are created to assure interoperability within all the major power system objects in an electrical utility enterprise and allow mission critical distribution functions to take advantage of real-time data in a secure manner. The IEC standards also enable reliable exchange of data among utilities and across power pools.
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is incorporating IEC standards, and developing new or revised standards, to be applied in its development of a Smart Grid as a national energy goal. This standards framework aims to eliminate the implementation of technologies that might become obsolete prematurely or be implemented without necessary security measures – and help utilities make the infrastructure decisions that reduce cost and energy loss, improve network reliability and embrace technology innovation.
In today’s commercial buildings, installing an effective
WAGES (water, air, gas, electricity, steam) metering
system can be a source of substantial energy and cost
savings. This white paper examines WAGES metering
as the essential first step toward a comprehensive
energy management strategy. Best practices for
selecting meters, and identifying metering points are
described. In addition, metrics for measuring gains in
energy efficiency are explained.
Sustainability Information in Mining: Technologies and Processes for Data Agg...Schneider Electric
Presented at the 2013 Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Annual Meeting (SME 2013). Given the complex regulatory and financial pressures placed upon the mining industry with regard to issues such as air/water quality, emissions and energy efficiency, most organizations need to be equipped with the proper subject matter expertise to be able to manage this process. Learn from a real life example, the necessary steps that need to be taken for an organization to develop an energy management and sustainability process, using services and technology.
[Oil & Gas White Paper] Optimizing Pipeline Energy ConsumptionSchneider Electric
Effective energy management can benefit the hydrocarbon pipeline operator. Energy consumption costs – the leading expense for most operators – are rising continuously; however, the commitments needed on the part of the operator often impede implementation of energy-saving practices.
Key to effective energy management is the ability to quantify energy consumption accurately at any specific time and its cost and that of drag reducing agent (DR) use. Operators committed to energy management can implement a real-time, system-wide power optimization solution that evaluates the resource efficiency of a steady-state model of the pipeline. This solution will also perform costing runs of alternative configurations, formulated for the next energy cost rate or other ‘what if’ scenarios, in order to find the most energy-efficient alternative that maintains operational safety and integrity. Implementing these alternatives, the operator can save one percent to five percent of energy costs and reduce carbon emissions.
This advanced information management technology makes these costing considerations so practical they can become a routine, real-time operations process. Putting available information to work with this solution can make power optimization extremely realistic and highly rewarding for the company while supporting overall operational security, safety and environmental stewardship.
What’s new in the smart grid - Latest developments and trends and what it mea...Schneider Electric
First, a big picture view of global trends over the last two years, then an analysis as to what this means to Schneider Electric customers in different geographies of the world.
Competitive Strategies Benchmarking in Datacenter Infra IndustryAmit Singh
The document profiles competitive strategies of major vendors in the data center physical infrastructure industry. It discusses Schneider Electric's focus on offering integrated energy management solutions globally through its power quality products and services. Schneider aims to build a competitive advantage in data centers by combining efficient energy technology with engineering and project management solutions. The company maintains its product leadership through R&D investment in areas such as ultra-high efficiency UPS, fuel cells, cooling systems and energy management software.
This document discusses how the IBM XIV Storage System is designed to significantly reduce power consumption compared to other storage systems. It achieves over 65% lower power usage through an architecture that optimizes capacity utilization, eliminating unused "orphaned" storage space and using thin provisioning to allocate more virtual storage capacity than actual physical capacity installed. This allows customers to purchase only the storage needed currently while still having room for future growth. The efficient architecture also reduces the amount of hardware required, further cutting power and cooling costs while still providing high-performance storage.
International Standards: The Challenges for an Interoperable Smart GridSchneider Electric
Building an electric energy Smart Grid involves proper interfacing between existing devices, applications and systems – all likely sourced from many different vendors. The resulting interoperability allows valuable advantages, such as the ability to use distribution system demand response (DSDR) to improve the efficiency of delivered power. Interoperability enables automated switching sequences, for system ‘self-healing’ and improved reliability, along with effective integration of distributed renewable and non-renewable resources that can enable peak shaving. Interoperability also is vital for assimilating emerging automation technologies that will enable the utility to realize these benefits in the future – and protect public and private sector technology investments.
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) defines international standards, recognized globally, that characterize interoperability and security of electrical, electronic and related technologies. These standards are created to assure interoperability within all the major power system objects in an electrical utility enterprise and allow mission critical distribution functions to take advantage of real-time data in a secure manner. The IEC standards also enable reliable exchange of data among utilities and across power pools.
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is incorporating IEC standards, and developing new or revised standards, to be applied in its development of a Smart Grid as a national energy goal. This standards framework aims to eliminate the implementation of technologies that might become obsolete prematurely or be implemented without necessary security measures – and help utilities make the infrastructure decisions that reduce cost and energy loss, improve network reliability and embrace technology innovation.
In today’s commercial buildings, installing an effective
WAGES (water, air, gas, electricity, steam) metering
system can be a source of substantial energy and cost
savings. This white paper examines WAGES metering
as the essential first step toward a comprehensive
energy management strategy. Best practices for
selecting meters, and identifying metering points are
described. In addition, metrics for measuring gains in
energy efficiency are explained.
Sustainability Information in Mining: Technologies and Processes for Data Agg...Schneider Electric
Presented at the 2013 Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Annual Meeting (SME 2013). Given the complex regulatory and financial pressures placed upon the mining industry with regard to issues such as air/water quality, emissions and energy efficiency, most organizations need to be equipped with the proper subject matter expertise to be able to manage this process. Learn from a real life example, the necessary steps that need to be taken for an organization to develop an energy management and sustainability process, using services and technology.
[Oil & Gas White Paper] Optimizing Pipeline Energy ConsumptionSchneider Electric
Effective energy management can benefit the hydrocarbon pipeline operator. Energy consumption costs – the leading expense for most operators – are rising continuously; however, the commitments needed on the part of the operator often impede implementation of energy-saving practices.
Key to effective energy management is the ability to quantify energy consumption accurately at any specific time and its cost and that of drag reducing agent (DR) use. Operators committed to energy management can implement a real-time, system-wide power optimization solution that evaluates the resource efficiency of a steady-state model of the pipeline. This solution will also perform costing runs of alternative configurations, formulated for the next energy cost rate or other ‘what if’ scenarios, in order to find the most energy-efficient alternative that maintains operational safety and integrity. Implementing these alternatives, the operator can save one percent to five percent of energy costs and reduce carbon emissions.
This advanced information management technology makes these costing considerations so practical they can become a routine, real-time operations process. Putting available information to work with this solution can make power optimization extremely realistic and highly rewarding for the company while supporting overall operational security, safety and environmental stewardship.
What’s new in the smart grid - Latest developments and trends and what it mea...Schneider Electric
First, a big picture view of global trends over the last two years, then an analysis as to what this means to Schneider Electric customers in different geographies of the world.
How windows server 2008 r2 helps optimize it and save you moneyupendhra90
This document discusses how Windows Server 2008 R2 can help optimize IT and save costs. It focuses on three key areas:
1) Reducing costs through streamlined management, server consolidation, lower power consumption, and reduced WAN bandwidth.
2) Improving IT service levels with increased reliability features in areas like Failover Clustering and Active Directory.
3) Enabling new business scenarios by providing resources and tools for IT administrators to quickly respond to changing business needs.
Early customers report significant cost savings through higher server consolidation rates, lower IT staff hours spent on tasks, and energy savings of up to 18% compared to prior versions of Windows Server.
The document discusses green IT and how companies can become greener. It notes that while IT contributes to environmental issues due to growth, IT can also reduce emissions in other sectors. It discusses stakeholders in green IT like IT users and vendors. It highlights that energy costs are a major cost for servers and storage and presents calculations showing the significant cost of power over time. It argues that improving energy efficiency through new technologies and virtualization presents a big business case for cost savings. The document concludes more metrics are needed but energy efficiency offers immediate monetary rewards and adopting dynamic infrastructure concepts can have a leading environmental impact.
This document discusses considerations for planning data center facilities systems. It covers key issues like capacity planning, reliability, budget, and aesthetics that facilities managers should keep in mind. The planning process requires collaboration between business, IT, and facilities teams to develop an integrated solution that meets business needs. Factors like tier levels, standards, and power requirements are also discussed to ensure the facilities infrastructure can support operations now and grow over time.
This document discusses hybrid microgrid systems, which integrate multiple distributed energy resources like solar, wind, biomass, and batteries. It addresses the technical challenges of operating such hybrid systems and optimizing resource allocation. Key points discussed include:
1) Hybrid systems improve reliability over single resource microgrids but pose integration challenges.
2) Resource optimization techniques like genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization are used to minimize costs while meeting load.
3) Technical challenges include seamlessly transitioning between grid-tied and isolated modes of operation, achieving black start capability, and developing an adaptive protection strategy.
SE's sustainability report shows an overall score of 3.94/10, in line with the three-year objective (8/10 by end 2014). The Planet & Society Barometer helps in driving and measuring SE’s sustainable development commitment
This document discusses Intel's Intelligent Power Node Manager solution for managing power usage in data centers. It notes that power and cooling costs are a major challenge as data needs increase exponentially. The Power Node Manager allows data center managers to set a power budget or "cap" for each server to better utilize existing power capacity and increase compute density. It provides real-time power monitoring and enables power capping to maintain performance within the set limit or adjust if the limit is exceeded. This allows data centers to squeeze more performance from their existing power infrastructure.
Moxa white paper---Using Embedded Computers to Manage Your Solar Power SystemDigital River
Moxa white paper---Using Embedded Computers to Manage Your Solar Power System
See More Embedded Computer White Papers by Visiting http://www.moxa.com/Resource/whitepapers.aspx
This document discusses challenges for achieving energy efficiency in local and regional data centers. It reviews common metrics used to measure energy efficiency and examines sources of energy loss in data centers. Some key points:
- Standard metrics and guidelines are needed to properly measure and reduce carbon emissions from data centers. Common metrics examine the ratio of data processed to energy consumed.
- Data centers consume large amounts of electricity, around 40 million kWh annually worldwide. Non-critical infrastructure like cooling accounts for around 70% of energy use, while only 30% powers IT equipment.
- Sources of energy loss include inefficient UPS systems, oversized and underutilized equipment, lack of virtualization, and cooling air traveling long distances. Both operational
Demand response is key to making facilities more competitive and ensuring grid reliability in the face of increasing energy demands and costs. Implementing demand response strategies allows facilities to better manage energy use, reduce costs, and help utilities balance the grid. Tools like enterprise energy management systems and consumption workshops can help identify savings of up to 30% through strategic planning, automated demand management, and cross-facility collaboration. Case studies show global companies cutting annual energy bills by millions through centralized energy procurement and performance benchmarking across their portfolios.
The document summarizes Cisco EnergyWise, a new approach from Cisco Systems to managing corporate energy consumption through the enterprise network. Cisco EnergyWise allows organizations to measure, manage, and control the power usage of all devices connected to the corporate network, including both IT and non-IT systems. It provides a way to centrally monitor and optimize energy usage across the entire organization. The architecture is built on Cisco switches and uses the network to distribute commands and aggregate power data from all connected devices. This allows organizations to gain visibility and control over their total energy footprint and costs.
Effective power management is quickly becoming a major concern for data centers of all sizes. Specialized power management software is now available to help meet these needs. We tested two of these power management tools, Dell OpenManage Power Center and JouleX Energy Manager for Data Centers.
Both Dell OpenManage Power Center 2.0 and JouleX Energy Manager address some of the most common critical power tasks for your data center servers. JouleX Energy Manager is a product that includes additional features, but you must pay upfront acquisition costs and incur recurring software maintenance costs for potentially less-common features that just a subset of IT departments may implement. In contrast, Dell OpenManage Power Center, when used in conjunction with iDRAC Enterprise, comes at a very compelling price point – $0.00. This translates to a great value and an immediate return on investment.
The document discusses challenges facing data centers and introduces a new product called the GP100 that aims to address these challenges. It summarizes the issues of balancing electrical loads, gaining efficiencies, density limitations, and high power needs. The GP100 is presented as a revolutionary 3-phase power supply that delivers high power density in a compact 1RU form factor. It claims to eliminate the need for load balancing and allow for greater efficiencies, cost savings, and reliability compared to traditional power solutions. The document outlines how the GP100 could transform various industries by providing critical power needs in bandwidth-constrained environments.
White Paper: EMC Accelerates Journey to Big Data with Business Analytics as a...EMC
This white paper examines how EMC is exploiting the Big Data opportunity with a new agile model for analytics and reporting. Business-Analytics-as-a-Service (BAaaS) significantly reduces total cost of ownership and provides predictive analytics proficiency and increased business agility. The paper details BAaaS architecture, deployment, results, best practices, and early adopter use cases.
Optimizing machine, line, and process efficiency in manufacturing operationsSchneider Electric
This document discusses optimizing machine, line, and process efficiency in manufacturing operations. It covers why US manufacturers are concerned about energy costs, the difference between facility and process energy usage, common barriers to process energy management, and introduces the five process demand functions for managing the 84% of energy used in industrial processes. The document provides concise overviews of peak demand management, scheduled demand management, idle state management, demand response management, and energy event management as key areas to focus on for process energy optimization.
Organizations are increasingly concerned about the energy consumption of their data centers, which account for a large portion of business energy usage. The document outlines several approaches for making data centers more energy efficient, including retiring legacy systems, enhancing power management on existing systems, migrating to more efficient platforms like blade servers, implementing virtualization to consolidate servers, standardizing on server performance matching application needs, and right-sizing power and cooling infrastructure to avoid overprovisioning. Taken together, these strategies can significantly reduce a data center's energy consumption and associated costs.
Data center power and cooling infrastructure worldwide wastes more than 60,000,000 megawatt-hours per year of electricity that does no useful work powering IT equipment. This represents an enormous financial burden on industry, and is a significant public policy environmental issue. This paper describes the principles of a new, commercially available data center
architecture that can be implemented today to dramatically improve the electrical efficiency of data centers.
Can automation manufacturers and system integrators be true partners?Schneider Electric
The document discusses the partnership between system integrators and automation manufacturers. It argues that both parties need each other to best serve customers. When the partnership works well, with openness, transparency, trust and communication, it can provide great value for customers. The document provides an example of a successful collaboration between Schneider Electric and a system integrator, George T. Hall Co., to upgrade the PLC and I/O for a gold mine's processing plant. The project was completed on time and without issues, demonstrating the benefits of the manufacturer-integrator partnership.
“Mine the Data”: New trends in energy management systems and benefits for min...Schneider Electric
Presented at the 2013 Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Annual Meeting (SME 2013). Stakeholders from management to plant level are able to be empowered by actionable energy intelligence to reveal opportunities, isolate problems and drive cost and risk reduction strategies. Learn new strategies in enterprise energy management software that goes beyond the traditional boundaries of energy strategies across your entire mine enterprise while performing wide-area analysis of events and conditions.
Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager is a server power management system that reports actual power usage and caps power usage to maximize efficiency. It allows data center managers to set power budgets for servers to enable up to 20% more dense deployments. When paired with Intel Data Center Manager, it can help optimize entire data centers by monitoring individual server power consumption and temperatures to link cooling to actual power demand.
Data centers today lack a formal system for classifying infrastructure management tools. As a result, confusion exists regarding which management systems are necessary and which are optional for secure and
efficient data center operation. This paper divides the realm of data center management tools into four distinct subsets and compares the primary and secondary functions of key subsystems within these subsets. With a classification system in place, data center professionals can begin to determine which physical infrastructure management tools they need – and don’t need – to operate their data centers.
This document discusses leveraging solid state drives (SSDs) in tiered storage environments to improve application performance and reduce costs compared to using only hard disk drives (HDDs). It describes how SSDs can deliver substantially better I/O performance than HDDs. Experiments showed significant performance improvements and substantial reduction in the number of drives needed when using SSDs, resulting in reduced costs from smaller footprint, lower energy usage, and less hardware to maintain. The document provides guidance on implementing tiered storage with SSDs and HDDs to optimize performance and costs.
The Dell OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.0 plug-in provides sustainability insights through automated data collection and reporting. It tracks power usage metrics, identifies idle servers, estimates carbon emissions, and detects devices exceeding power thresholds - helping optimize infrastructure utilization and reduce energy costs and carbon footprint. The plug-in interfaces all functionality through a single console for improved visibility and workload management.
How windows server 2008 r2 helps optimize it and save you moneyupendhra90
This document discusses how Windows Server 2008 R2 can help optimize IT and save costs. It focuses on three key areas:
1) Reducing costs through streamlined management, server consolidation, lower power consumption, and reduced WAN bandwidth.
2) Improving IT service levels with increased reliability features in areas like Failover Clustering and Active Directory.
3) Enabling new business scenarios by providing resources and tools for IT administrators to quickly respond to changing business needs.
Early customers report significant cost savings through higher server consolidation rates, lower IT staff hours spent on tasks, and energy savings of up to 18% compared to prior versions of Windows Server.
The document discusses green IT and how companies can become greener. It notes that while IT contributes to environmental issues due to growth, IT can also reduce emissions in other sectors. It discusses stakeholders in green IT like IT users and vendors. It highlights that energy costs are a major cost for servers and storage and presents calculations showing the significant cost of power over time. It argues that improving energy efficiency through new technologies and virtualization presents a big business case for cost savings. The document concludes more metrics are needed but energy efficiency offers immediate monetary rewards and adopting dynamic infrastructure concepts can have a leading environmental impact.
This document discusses considerations for planning data center facilities systems. It covers key issues like capacity planning, reliability, budget, and aesthetics that facilities managers should keep in mind. The planning process requires collaboration between business, IT, and facilities teams to develop an integrated solution that meets business needs. Factors like tier levels, standards, and power requirements are also discussed to ensure the facilities infrastructure can support operations now and grow over time.
This document discusses hybrid microgrid systems, which integrate multiple distributed energy resources like solar, wind, biomass, and batteries. It addresses the technical challenges of operating such hybrid systems and optimizing resource allocation. Key points discussed include:
1) Hybrid systems improve reliability over single resource microgrids but pose integration challenges.
2) Resource optimization techniques like genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization are used to minimize costs while meeting load.
3) Technical challenges include seamlessly transitioning between grid-tied and isolated modes of operation, achieving black start capability, and developing an adaptive protection strategy.
SE's sustainability report shows an overall score of 3.94/10, in line with the three-year objective (8/10 by end 2014). The Planet & Society Barometer helps in driving and measuring SE’s sustainable development commitment
This document discusses Intel's Intelligent Power Node Manager solution for managing power usage in data centers. It notes that power and cooling costs are a major challenge as data needs increase exponentially. The Power Node Manager allows data center managers to set a power budget or "cap" for each server to better utilize existing power capacity and increase compute density. It provides real-time power monitoring and enables power capping to maintain performance within the set limit or adjust if the limit is exceeded. This allows data centers to squeeze more performance from their existing power infrastructure.
Moxa white paper---Using Embedded Computers to Manage Your Solar Power SystemDigital River
Moxa white paper---Using Embedded Computers to Manage Your Solar Power System
See More Embedded Computer White Papers by Visiting http://www.moxa.com/Resource/whitepapers.aspx
This document discusses challenges for achieving energy efficiency in local and regional data centers. It reviews common metrics used to measure energy efficiency and examines sources of energy loss in data centers. Some key points:
- Standard metrics and guidelines are needed to properly measure and reduce carbon emissions from data centers. Common metrics examine the ratio of data processed to energy consumed.
- Data centers consume large amounts of electricity, around 40 million kWh annually worldwide. Non-critical infrastructure like cooling accounts for around 70% of energy use, while only 30% powers IT equipment.
- Sources of energy loss include inefficient UPS systems, oversized and underutilized equipment, lack of virtualization, and cooling air traveling long distances. Both operational
Demand response is key to making facilities more competitive and ensuring grid reliability in the face of increasing energy demands and costs. Implementing demand response strategies allows facilities to better manage energy use, reduce costs, and help utilities balance the grid. Tools like enterprise energy management systems and consumption workshops can help identify savings of up to 30% through strategic planning, automated demand management, and cross-facility collaboration. Case studies show global companies cutting annual energy bills by millions through centralized energy procurement and performance benchmarking across their portfolios.
The document summarizes Cisco EnergyWise, a new approach from Cisco Systems to managing corporate energy consumption through the enterprise network. Cisco EnergyWise allows organizations to measure, manage, and control the power usage of all devices connected to the corporate network, including both IT and non-IT systems. It provides a way to centrally monitor and optimize energy usage across the entire organization. The architecture is built on Cisco switches and uses the network to distribute commands and aggregate power data from all connected devices. This allows organizations to gain visibility and control over their total energy footprint and costs.
Effective power management is quickly becoming a major concern for data centers of all sizes. Specialized power management software is now available to help meet these needs. We tested two of these power management tools, Dell OpenManage Power Center and JouleX Energy Manager for Data Centers.
Both Dell OpenManage Power Center 2.0 and JouleX Energy Manager address some of the most common critical power tasks for your data center servers. JouleX Energy Manager is a product that includes additional features, but you must pay upfront acquisition costs and incur recurring software maintenance costs for potentially less-common features that just a subset of IT departments may implement. In contrast, Dell OpenManage Power Center, when used in conjunction with iDRAC Enterprise, comes at a very compelling price point – $0.00. This translates to a great value and an immediate return on investment.
The document discusses challenges facing data centers and introduces a new product called the GP100 that aims to address these challenges. It summarizes the issues of balancing electrical loads, gaining efficiencies, density limitations, and high power needs. The GP100 is presented as a revolutionary 3-phase power supply that delivers high power density in a compact 1RU form factor. It claims to eliminate the need for load balancing and allow for greater efficiencies, cost savings, and reliability compared to traditional power solutions. The document outlines how the GP100 could transform various industries by providing critical power needs in bandwidth-constrained environments.
White Paper: EMC Accelerates Journey to Big Data with Business Analytics as a...EMC
This white paper examines how EMC is exploiting the Big Data opportunity with a new agile model for analytics and reporting. Business-Analytics-as-a-Service (BAaaS) significantly reduces total cost of ownership and provides predictive analytics proficiency and increased business agility. The paper details BAaaS architecture, deployment, results, best practices, and early adopter use cases.
Optimizing machine, line, and process efficiency in manufacturing operationsSchneider Electric
This document discusses optimizing machine, line, and process efficiency in manufacturing operations. It covers why US manufacturers are concerned about energy costs, the difference between facility and process energy usage, common barriers to process energy management, and introduces the five process demand functions for managing the 84% of energy used in industrial processes. The document provides concise overviews of peak demand management, scheduled demand management, idle state management, demand response management, and energy event management as key areas to focus on for process energy optimization.
Organizations are increasingly concerned about the energy consumption of their data centers, which account for a large portion of business energy usage. The document outlines several approaches for making data centers more energy efficient, including retiring legacy systems, enhancing power management on existing systems, migrating to more efficient platforms like blade servers, implementing virtualization to consolidate servers, standardizing on server performance matching application needs, and right-sizing power and cooling infrastructure to avoid overprovisioning. Taken together, these strategies can significantly reduce a data center's energy consumption and associated costs.
Data center power and cooling infrastructure worldwide wastes more than 60,000,000 megawatt-hours per year of electricity that does no useful work powering IT equipment. This represents an enormous financial burden on industry, and is a significant public policy environmental issue. This paper describes the principles of a new, commercially available data center
architecture that can be implemented today to dramatically improve the electrical efficiency of data centers.
Can automation manufacturers and system integrators be true partners?Schneider Electric
The document discusses the partnership between system integrators and automation manufacturers. It argues that both parties need each other to best serve customers. When the partnership works well, with openness, transparency, trust and communication, it can provide great value for customers. The document provides an example of a successful collaboration between Schneider Electric and a system integrator, George T. Hall Co., to upgrade the PLC and I/O for a gold mine's processing plant. The project was completed on time and without issues, demonstrating the benefits of the manufacturer-integrator partnership.
“Mine the Data”: New trends in energy management systems and benefits for min...Schneider Electric
Presented at the 2013 Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Annual Meeting (SME 2013). Stakeholders from management to plant level are able to be empowered by actionable energy intelligence to reveal opportunities, isolate problems and drive cost and risk reduction strategies. Learn new strategies in enterprise energy management software that goes beyond the traditional boundaries of energy strategies across your entire mine enterprise while performing wide-area analysis of events and conditions.
Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager is a server power management system that reports actual power usage and caps power usage to maximize efficiency. It allows data center managers to set power budgets for servers to enable up to 20% more dense deployments. When paired with Intel Data Center Manager, it can help optimize entire data centers by monitoring individual server power consumption and temperatures to link cooling to actual power demand.
Data centers today lack a formal system for classifying infrastructure management tools. As a result, confusion exists regarding which management systems are necessary and which are optional for secure and
efficient data center operation. This paper divides the realm of data center management tools into four distinct subsets and compares the primary and secondary functions of key subsystems within these subsets. With a classification system in place, data center professionals can begin to determine which physical infrastructure management tools they need – and don’t need – to operate their data centers.
This document discusses leveraging solid state drives (SSDs) in tiered storage environments to improve application performance and reduce costs compared to using only hard disk drives (HDDs). It describes how SSDs can deliver substantially better I/O performance than HDDs. Experiments showed significant performance improvements and substantial reduction in the number of drives needed when using SSDs, resulting in reduced costs from smaller footprint, lower energy usage, and less hardware to maintain. The document provides guidance on implementing tiered storage with SSDs and HDDs to optimize performance and costs.
The Dell OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.0 plug-in provides sustainability insights through automated data collection and reporting. It tracks power usage metrics, identifies idle servers, estimates carbon emissions, and detects devices exceeding power thresholds - helping optimize infrastructure utilization and reduce energy costs and carbon footprint. The plug-in interfaces all functionality through a single console for improved visibility and workload management.
Dell OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.0 provides data center managers with end-to-end insights into their data centers that enable them to improve power usage and track greenhouse gas emissions. It allows automated collection of server utilization metrics, location information, and power consumption data to identify resources using high energy or underutilized power. The plugin also features carbon emission tracking and an energy cost calculator to help guide infrastructure optimization and consolidation efforts to reduce costs while meeting sustainability goals.
The document discusses the next wave of green IT and making data centers more energy efficient. It notes that data center energy costs are significant and that McKinsey predicts data centers will produce more greenhouse gases than airlines by 2020. It provides best practices for building sustainable green data centers, including exploiting virtualization, improving server utilization rates, and designing efficient cooling systems.
This document discusses the need for green data centers and provides strategies for making data centers more energy efficient. It notes that while many organizations say they are green, few have specific targets or programs to reduce their carbon footprint. As data center electricity consumption and costs rise, running out of power capacity, cooling capacity, and physical space are major concerns. The document then provides questions to assess a data center's energy efficiency in terms of facilities, IT equipment, and utilization rates. It recommends strategies like optimizing infrastructure utilization and choosing more efficient hardware and cooling options. The goal is to improve the data center infrastructure efficiency metric and lower costs by reducing redundant, underutilized resources.
IRJET - A Research on Eloquent Salvation and Productive Outsourcing of Massiv...IRJET Journal
This document discusses a research on efficiently outsourcing the processing of massive datasets to the cloud while maintaining data privacy and security. It begins by introducing the growth of big data and challenges of analyzing large datasets. It then discusses how convex separable programming problems are involved in various applications and how solving them at large scales is computationally difficult for individual users. The proposed system develops an efficient transformation scheme to privately transform vectors and matrices before outsourcing computations to the cloud. It also uses convex separable programming to approximate convex functions with linear programs, which are then securely solved in the cloud. A verification scheme is used to validate the correctness of the cloud's returned results.
The document discusses information technology (IT) and its role in the smart grid. It describes how IT systems process large amounts of data and enable real-time communication and sharing of information. The development of the internet and ubiquitous connectivity has led to new conveniences but also creates challenges around storing vast amounts of "Big Data." The document outlines strategies that data centers and IT professionals can use to improve energy efficiency, such as storage consolidation, virtualization, optimized hardware, and energy-efficient software development practices. Implementing these strategies can significantly reduce data center power consumption and energy costs.
Presentazione del progetto a Peter Ansell, on-shore operations Director di Acea (America's Cup Event Authority), presso i palchi allestiti per l'evento American's Cup di Napoli il 7 aprile 2012
Analysis of SOFTWARE DEFINED STORAGE (SDS)Kaushik Rajan
This document analyzes software defined storage (SDS) and compares it to traditional storage systems. SDS abstracts and simplifies data storage management, separating the storage software from hardware. It provides benefits like flexibility, reliability, lower costs, and higher performance. SDS also allows for easier scaling of storage capacity and automation of management. While traditional systems are suitable for some specific workloads, the comparison shows SDS has advantages and is revolutionizing storage in the IT industry.
The document summarizes a Smart Grid event discussing battery storage. It includes an agenda for presentations and panel on battery storage applications moderated by Sean Atkins of Alston & Bird. Presenters will discuss regulatory issues around battery storage, Southern Company's battery demonstrations, and GS Battery's PV battery projects in New Mexico and Georgia. The event is sponsored by various organizations and will take place on August 30th in Atlanta, GA.
ScottMadden has developed an approach for analyzing data center requirements and driving improvements in existing data center retrofits. Our approach takes into account the technological requirements, the physical attributes of a data center, and the requirements for a rigorous measurement and verification program needed to ensure improvements actually capture the energy efficiently gains and the resultant greenhouse gas reductions.
Our approach addresses the latest trends in data center management such as virtualization and cloud computing and provide a framework for developing metrics needed to drive changes in data center performance.
Software-defined storage (SDS) provides storage software that runs on standard server hardware to deliver data services. The document discusses the top five use cases and benefits of SDS, including reducing storage costs through scalable commodity hardware, improving performance by optimizing storage I/O, better provisioning and automation of storage resources, robust management of heterogeneous storage arrays, and tightly aligning storage with broader infrastructure management. SDS can lower costs while improving performance, efficiency, and flexibility compared to proprietary storage systems. However, SDS also presents challenges around integration, support skills, and interoperability that must be addressed.
This document discusses how to design data centers for maximum energy efficiency. It identifies the main culprits of inefficiency as power equipment, cooling equipment, lighting, oversized equipment, and poor configuration. It recommends 8 characteristics of highly efficient data centers, including using scalable power and cooling, row-based cooling, high-efficiency UPS, high voltage distribution, variable speed drives, capacity management tools, and room layout tools. The document outlines 7 key elements of efficient data center design that incorporate these characteristics and can save up to 40% on energy costs.
2013 us grid storage report executive summaryJon Winberg
This report analyzes the future market potential for grid energy storage technologies and applications in the US over the next 10 years. It finds that while pumped hydro currently dominates grid storage, battery technologies like lithium-ion and flow batteries are poised to experience strong growth due to their flexibility. The report models scenarios where grid storage capacity grows to between 28.2-47 GW by 2022, representing a compound annual growth rate of 3.4-9.3%. This growth will be driven by increasing renewable energy as well as support for applications like frequency regulation and transmission/distribution support. However, high capital costs and the unproven nature of some technologies may restrain the market.
The document describes IBM's Data Engine for NoSQL solution for Power Systems. It leverages CAPI to attach flash memory to POWER8 processors, providing up to 57TB of flash as an alternative to expensive DRAM for NoSQL implementations like Redis. This reduces costs while providing sufficient performance for most applications. The solution includes software that provides APIs for applications to access the flash similarly to main memory.
This white paper provides an overview of EMC's data protection solutions for the data lake - an active repository to manage varied and complex Big Data workloads
COMMON PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES IN DATA CENTRESKamran Hassan
in this paper common problems and challenges of data center have been identified and methods have been explained to improve the efficiency and reliability of data center
Data Center Optimization with Avocent MergePoint Infrastructure Explorer (AMIE)42U Data Center Solutions
In this presentation 42U and Avocent show how the Avocent AMIE infrastructure software solution can help you optimize your data center.
To view the recorded webinar, which includes a live demo of the software, visit http://www.42u.com/webinars/Avocent-AMIE-Webinar/playback.htm
Summary: Avocent MergePoint Infrastructure Explorer (AMIE) software presents a fresh alternative to familiar tools such as spreadsheets and VISIO diagrams. With real-time visibility, users can model, plan for, and schedule changes to their data center. Coupled with asset management and capacity planning, AMIE takes the guesswork out of data center projects.
Software-Defined Storage Accelerates Storage Cost Reduction and Service-Level...DataCore Software
- Over 25% of organizations have already invested in software-defined storage (SDS) in 2015, and a further 40% are evaluating options, as SDS can help reduce storage costs while improving service levels and efficiency.
- SDS separates storage services from hardware, allowing more flexible provisioning and management of storage resources. DataCore is one of the leading providers of hardware-independent SDS software.
- DataCore's SDS platform automates storage management across server, flash, SAN, NAS, and cloud storage, helping customers improve performance and availability while reducing costs.