Electronics Protection Magazine recently featured Future Facilities for their newest offering, the ACE Assessment Service. From the article:
Future Facilities, Inc. has launched its ACE Data Center Performance Assessment Service, a new offering to assess and visualize three critical indicators of data center performance: availability, capacity and efficiency. Every data center faces road map changes. Each change has the potential to chip away at one or more of the interconnected performance indicators.
Successful data center operation is about winning the battle against change by planning changes from a known performance baseline. The ACE Assessment starts with the creation of a Predictive Model (Virtual Facility) of the data center using 6SigmaDC software. The Virtual Facility is then used to calculate the following performance indicators:
Availability: Percent of existing connected IT load that will always be available under what if power and cooling failure conditions
Capacity: Percent 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)
ACE allows operators to visually plot their performance gap, the difference between maximum design potential and real-world operational potential. The ACE Service also pinpoints potential improvements to close the performance gap.
