APC’s Electrical Efficiency Assessment Service Ensures Availability, and Maximises Efficiency
Posted 17/03/09
Vendor-Neutral Recommendations Optimise Power and Cooling
Infrastructure and Plan for Future Growth or Consolidation
London, England - February 26th, 2009 - APC by Schneider Electric,
a global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services,
today announced the launch of the Electrical Efficiency Assessment
Service designed to address the growing concern of energy
efficiency in the data centre. Delivered by APC's global
Professional Services organisation, the vendor-neutral suite of
services includes comprehensive evaluation of energy use in
customers' facilities with detailed reports on total data
centre input power, IT load, Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), and
power and cooling conditions. Consultants also provide proposals to
resolve issues with a range of recommendations to suit customer
needs.
"There are and will continue to be business and regulatory
climates that demand increased efficiencies within the data
centre," said John DiPippo, senior vice president, Data Center
Solutions, Services, and Software, APC. "APC's new
Electrical Efficiency Assessment Service brings significant return
on investment as customers optimise current infrastructure and plan
for future growth or consolidation.
''The Services team audits existing data centres and
provides customers with detailed proposals to improve their current
data centre efficiency. The proposal recommends a range of
solutions that yield minimum to maximum estimated efficiency gains,
allowing customers to implement specific changes that best fit
their business needs and data centre environments. Issues typically
found in data centres often are addressed with a combination of
airflow and cooling management techniques, smarter hot-cold aisle
configurations and containment systems, upgrades to UPS systems, as
well as modernisation of rack enclosures with new intelligent
systems.
The Electrical Efficiency Assessment Service is currently available
in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland,
Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, Russian Federation,
Singapore, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, and
Vietnam.