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Energy Proficiency Impact Analysis

The EPIA helps customers identify ways to:

  • Streamline their IT infrastructure
  • Reduce operational costs and/or capital expenditures
  • Report back to the CEO and CFO on true financial accomplishments
  • All the while maintaining a high level of support to the business.

This service results in:

  • Green Proficiency Analysis
  • Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)
  • Data Center Efficiency (DCiE)
  • Cost Proficiency Analysis
  • Identify devices to decommission
  • Identify possible improvements to facility infrastructure
  • Calculate OpEx and CapEx
  • Model the operational impact of facility & system changes, considering costs for power, heat/cooling, space, etc.
  • Prioritized Action Plan
  • Identification of current state versus future state goals
  • Prioritized tasklist for achieving the future state

The EPIA consists of:

  • Green Proficiency Analysis (GPA): This provides a current state analysis and offers recommendations for how achieve a more efficient, greener IT environment based on metrics and standards established by The Green Grid.
  • Cost Proficiency Analysis (CPA): Based on the recommended improvements, this validates the financial savings and demonstrates the break-even analysis when investments begin to pay dividends

Benefits of the EPIA include:

  • Identification of devices to decommission with resulting decrease in expenses
  • Identification of potential facility improvements
  • Comparison & recommendations for capital expenditure choices, contrasting the IT vs. the Facility options
  • Cost-Effectiveness Modelling for multiple future-state environment options w/savings quantified
  • Flexibility & agility responding to business demand
  • Easy-to-use dashboard to assess metrics for executive management
  • Detailed reports for business unit comparisons


The Five Step Process

  1. Discovery: Starting from a true accounting of your data center assets, it is then possible to conduct accurate documentation, modeling, and analysis.
  2. Documentation: We document the data center and all the device records, including:  Recorded cooling and power requirements; cabling and connectivity; and spatial and structural (weight) considerations.
  3. Modeling and GPA: This phase uncovers opportunities for savings. By identifying major power and space culprits—whether IT or facility infrastructure—you can make data-driven decisions for: Decommissioning unused IT devices; Consolidating underutilized servers; and/or Upgrading the facility infrastructure.
  4. CPA reporting:  The CPA builds a monetized break-even business case for equipment decommissioning/ commissioning options as well as facility changes identified in the modeling & analysis process.
  5. Implementation: We provide step-by-step progression sequencing for follow-up—including device, rack placement, and cabling connections—defined directly from your specific data center model.

 

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