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INCREASING PERFORMANCE AND EFFICIENCY , WITH REDUCING COSTS , ARE KEY EXPECTATIONS FROM ADVANCED DATA CENTRES . www . intelligentdatacentres . com
UNCOVERING THE LAYERS real time visibility into industrial assets . 60 % of respondents in the same survey acknowledged that their most recent outages could have been prevented with better asset management practices in place .
2 . Spiralling energy costs
More than 50 % of the operating cost of a modern-day data centre is driven by energy consumption . Controlling energy consumption through asset monitoring can immediately help to reduce the overall operating costs . Utilities typically use a slab-wise pricing with each subsequent slab having a higher tariff . Controlling and keeping the consumption in the lower slabs can help reduce the energy consumption bills . Data centre managers can strive to control their energy bills by having analytics and real time operating models for all subsystems and assets .
3 . Subsystem complexity
Compute , virtualisation and networking infrastructures have their own complexity and require their own management systems . The rest of the support systems within a data centre also have their unique set of challenges . There are many specialised internal systems that coexist and yet are siloed , such as Data Centre Infrastructure Management Solutions , Building Management Systems ,
Building Automation Systems , Building Energy Management Systems , among

INCREASING PERFORMANCE AND EFFICIENCY , WITH REDUCING COSTS , ARE KEY EXPECTATIONS FROM ADVANCED DATA CENTRES . www . intelligentdatacentres . com

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