TO TRY AND
MITIGATE
THE ISSUES
OF CAPACITY
PLANNING,
OPERATORS ARE
BUILDING 50%
MORE DATA
CENTRES THAN
THEY NEED.
up to their initial hype. A consequence
of these pressures is that research has
shown that nearly a third of businesses
must compromise decision making
processes all of the time,” said Jonathan
Leppard, COO at Future Facilities.
“We designed DCX14 to solve these issues
by speeding up decision-making processes
and enhancing infrastructure analysis
throughout the life of a data centre. We
firmly believe that the digital twin for the
data centre, backed by simulation, is the
wave of the future.”
Additional benefits for DCX14 include:
www.intelligentdatacentres.com
With over three quarters of organisations
seeing increased demands on their
existing power and cooling infrastructure,
it is a critical issue that is having an
impact across the industry.
Jonathan Leppard, COO at
Future Facilities
Leppard added: “We have already seen
from our customers who are using a
digital twin a five-year ROI of nearly
US$40 million. The days of making
decisions by the rule of thumb are
numbered. Data centres are critical for any
business and with the digital twin, their
performance can be maximised to match
business demands.” ◊
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• Generate comprehensive dashboards,
change management reports and
an email notification system to
aid planning
• Create ‘behind the scenes’
schedulers for automated problem
solving and reporting
• Develop a complete capacity picture
with the new Data Network – adding
port availability to existing power,
space, cooling and weight metrics
• Connect the external cooling
infrastructure (e.g. chillers) to the
internal cooling infrastructure to
understand the resilience of a data
centre during a system failure