Virtualisation enhances the need for effective
power and cooling to safeguard availability.

Virtualisation can result in increased rack density, but it also introduces issues that go beyond
high density alone and which must be considered in power and cooling systems supporting a
virtualised environment.  

APC’s InfraStruxure Energy Efficiency provides you with detailed insights into the energy usage
of your data centres and supporting facilities.

Based on intelligent modelling of the electrical and mechanical topology, the flow and usage of energy
through subsystems is analysed and presented on web-based dashboards. The product enables data centre
managers to provide a high level overview of energy usage and costs back to the organisation as well as
deep insight into where each kW is spent.

Up until now, Energy Efficiency has been focused on just identifying PUE – the next step is to understand
how to improve the PUE, while at the same time improving the cost of running the data centre.