INDUSTRY INTELLIGENCE POWERED BY THE DCA
INDUSTRY INTELLIGENCE POWERED BY THE DCA
Protect our data centre
powerhouses by mastering
data centre monitoring
Meeting the data centre challenges of today can be a
struggle as an increase in data requires ever expanding
capacity. Colin Dean, Managing Director, Socomec UK,
discusses the ways we can master energy monitoring
and consumption to ultimately protect data centres
and enhance their reliability.
The safeguarding of our data
centres is more critical than ever
as they provide the backbone for
our most vital healthcare, industrial and
communications facilities for every nation.
With unprecedented volumes of
online traffic and record-levels of data
throughput, the careful management and
mastery of our digital infrastructure can
provide organisations with critical visibility
and reliability – protecting against the
downtime that we simply cannot afford.
Greater granularity, increased
functionality, informed
corrective actions
Granular power monitoring is a must
– as not only does it account for all
consumption, it breaks that consumption
down according to key criteria – making
it easy to uncover, analyse and correct
problems early on.
Simply relying on general data is not
enough to support informed decision
making or activity. By using devices that
can harvest more than just the very basic
energy readings, valuable preventive
and corrective action can be taken
that is rooted in robust information. By
measuring harmonics and imbalance,
weak points can be identified, preventing
the constant deterioration of equipment
and optimising maintenance operations.
The monitoring of each individual
protective device (on / off / trip)
allows the user to perform a rapid
reset in the event of a trip, minimising
downtime and the direct and indirect
cost associated with any loss of uptime.
Whether associated with productivity
losses, revenue losses, longer term
customer attrition, system recovery
costs or the long-term impact of
reputational damage, the total cost of
downtime can be financially crippling
and life limiting – not an option in the
operating context of today’s hard working
electrical infrastructures.
Where to start? Manage
the metrics
To be clear, implementing a power
monitoring system within a facility
enables every data centre manager to
achieve a real grasp on both how much
energy is entering via the mains as well
as how much energy is being consumed
– with that consumption broken down by
each piece of equipment.
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