Future Facilities was recently featured on Cabling Installation & Maintenance for their release of the ACE Assessment Service. From the article:
Future Facilities, Inc. (San Jose, CA), a provider of data center design and operational management software, has announced the launch of its ACE Data Center Performance Assessment Service, an offering designed to assess and visualize three critical indicators of data center performance: availability, capacity and efficiency.
Every data center faces roadmap changes, contends the company. Each change has the potential to chip away at one or more of these interconnected performance indicators. “We developed ACE as a new way to assess and visualize the performance state of the data center and to help the operator get to where they need to go to close the ‘performance gap,’” comments Sherman Ikemoto, director of Future Facilities, Inc. “Successful data center operation is about winning the battle against change by planning changes from a known performance baseline.”
The ACE Assessment service starts with the creation of a Predictive Model (Virtual Facility) of the data center using Future Facilities’ 6SigmaDC software. The Virtual Facility is then used to calculate the following performance indicators, as defined thusly:
— Availability: % of existing connected IT load that will always be available under what if power and cooling failure conditions.
— Capacity: % of the design IT load that can be achieved by adding to the present day layout.
— Efficiency: The effectiveness of airflow and temperature delivery (compared to ASHRAE standards).
Read the full article at Cabling Installation & Maintenance.
