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Exponential-e ’ s colocation customers are also able to remotely access their iPDUs to turn their equipment on or off . They now can do it themselves without needing to call engineers in the middle of the night to reboot the servers .
also want to know their power headroom and how much is available to support future growth . “ Customers like the ability to control and oversee the equipment within their rack ; our intelligent PDU solution gives them that . On their dashboards they can see how much power they ’ re drawing not just on a daily basis , but by week , month , year . They easily can look at different measurements over time on a graph or diagram . If customers are planning to add more equipment to a cabinet , Power IQ gives them the ability to see how much contractual power remains . Our customers are really excited about our power monitoring offering ,” says Anderson .
Energy PUE
The Raritan Power IQ solution calculates and tracks the data centre ’ s PUE , which is used to calculate the efficiency of data centre energy utlization . The dashboard ’ s PUE gauges and charts visually track the data center ’ s real-time PUE and trends over time . To achieve the desired low PUE rating , the Exponential-e ’ s data centre uses a number of innovative energy-efficient measures , some of these include : ‘ free-cooling ’; chilled water system with N + 1 air-cooled chillers and pumps ; highly efficient ( 99 %) static UPS unit ; and hot and cold aisle containment .
The new advanced remote management capabilities from Raritan ’ s solutions are helping Exponential-e to respond swiftly to the company ’ s growth and changing business requirements . The data centre team can now access and manage any piece of equipment from anywhere , as well as monitor energy usage and power capacity . “ I ’ m very happy with Raritan , from the actual product itself and all the global support that goes with it . Raritan ’ s solution gives us more insight and control of our data centre operations .”
Customer
Exponential-e , the leading U . K . provider of networking and cloud services .
Challenge
To support its new 71,500-squarefoot ( 1,625m2 ) colocation data centre business , Exponential-e needed a responsive and efficient way to monitor the health of the entire data centre and the individual equipment cabinets used by its enterprise customers .
Exponential-e also wanted to provide its 1700 + customers advanced monitoring tools for managing their data centre equipment and cabinets remotely .
Solution
Power IQ ® DCIM Monitoring Software and PX ® 5000 Series Intelligent PDUs
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Results
• Improved data centre management by keeping accurate track of power usage and capacity .
• Early-warning alerts of potential power issues .
• Access to real-time energy information to help meet SLAs and plan for future power needs .
• Provide customers with easy-to-use power management and monitoring tools .
• One of the industry ’ s lowest Power Usage Effectiveness ( PUE ) ratings .