A 2006 Gartner report showed that the top two greatest facilities problems with primary data centers are excessive heat and insufficient power. The cost to power and cool install base has gone up 24% in the past three years. Where does the energy go in a typical Data Center? 55% to Power and cooling and 45% to IT Load. Typical servers use 70% of the energy on power supply, memory, fans, planar, drives etc. but have a usage rate of 20%. More than half of the energy the is used not related to actual functions it performs. The magnitude of energy-intensive IT continues to grow unabated; these inefficiencies must be addressed. E-waste can no longer be ignored.

Cima clients are seeing up to 40% reduction in power and cooling and a 20% increase in storage/server utilization. It is possible to achieve 80% reduction in floor space. Let Cima show you how this is possible for your company by signing up for a Green Data Center Energy Efficiency Assessment.

Our Green Data Center Energy Efficiency Assessment allows clients to compare data center energy efficiency to a set of industry standards and discover opportunities to improve efficiency. The assessment compares total power used by the data center to the power used by the technology. It provides a market comparison and demonstrates range for opportunity improvement.
 

The solution crafted after the assessment addresses five key areas of e-waste in data centers.

Examples of solutions include:

Data Center Stored Cooling Solution

The Cool Battery can
improve efficiency of the cooling plant in existing or new data center
With Cool Battery.

Optimized Airflow Assessment for Cabling
Replace cabling systems with high-performance fiber transport systems
Yields improved cooling and reduced energy usage across data center

Scalable Modular Data Center
Provides ready racking, power, cooling, security and monitoring
500 and 1,000 square foot data centers can be deployed in 8 to 12 weeks
About 15 percent below the price of a traditional approach
IBM manages integration and coordination of data center

Cool Blue Virtualization

IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) for storage virtualization increases storage utilization rates by 30% while reducing the growth rate of storage capacity by 20%.

“This shift has eliminated one floor of servers, cut power and cooling costs by 80 percent, and reduced the administrative staff (and costs) by 10 administrators. No other platform has clearly demonstrated the vertical scaling (scale-up) savings as the mainframe.”
-Hanaford