Service offering identifies three variables that measure success and failure of a data center’s operations
SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Future Facilities, Inc., a leading provider of data center design and operational management software, today announced the launch of 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.
“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,’”
Every data center faces roadmap 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 using6SigmaDC software. The Virtual Facility is then used to calculate the following performance indicators:
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)
ACE is the only service available that 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.
“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,’” said Sherman Ikemoto, Director of Future Facilities, Inc.
