Interview with GreenerIT

At the recent GreenerIT trade show in Vaughan, Canada Server Technology’s Director of Product Marketing, Calvin Nicholson, was interviewed regarding how our power distribution units (pdu’s) play a role in the green technology initiative.

Server Technology's products are cutting edge in terms of power management and Data Center efficiency.  The industry is attempting to provide more in terms of power monitoring and management for Data Centers.  The first step in establishing current efficiency with metrics such as PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) and DCIE (Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency) is implementing the ability to monitor power to calculate these metrics.

By calculating current Data Center efficiency metrics with a rack mountable pdu (the closest source for actual power consumption) companies can establish their current efficiency and make improvements accordingly.

POPS (Per Outlet Power Sensing) provides even more power information by providing power information on an outlet basis.  This allows Data Center managers looking to manage their power the ability to locate comatose or zombie servers, provide cost allocation in terms of power consumption per department or within a co-location facility.

When combined with the Sentry Power Manager (SPM) the Data Center manager can implement a per device overview of their entire Data Center power consumption on a per device level or by implementing grouping, per designated group.

This is a powerful application who’s value is already being recognized in the industry.

The interview is available online at http://www.greenerit.ca/ under GreenIT, Q&A with Server Technology Inc.