Our Approach
Data Center Efficiency with Mansystems' FastTrack Analysis
Consider the full chain
Mansystems has developed a holistic approach to address the efficiency of the full chain of IT delivery. This factory-like method is based on years of accumulated knowledge and experience making use of industry averages.
Figure 1: Data Center Efficiency
Mansystems is a pioneer in the World of IT Service Management and has more than 15 years of experience in development, implementation and operation of service management processes – and tooling.
As a result of years working closely with a variety of customers, we recognized the need and even necessity to broaden the scope of the traditional approach on IT Service Management to include the underlying IT- and Data.
Data Center Infrastructure
Increasing (energy) costs, the ever growing demand for IT capacity in combination with the disproportional availability of skilled personnel, requests a factory-like approach.
Effective & efficient IT Service Management encompasses the full chain:
From the Data Center floor to the IT services delivered.
The Circle of Efficiency
A lot of research has been done on IT efficiency. Most recent studies concentrate on power usage and the associated cooling requirements. Organizations like the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) in the United States, the Joint Research Center of the European Community but also the Dutch Government have conducted research on energy usage within the IT.
Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency
In the published documents two indices are used to quantify the electrical and mechanical efficiency of the data center. Although useful, the DCiE does not reflect the overall efficiency, for this you need to consider much more.
IT Infrastructure Efficiency
There are currently no internationally accepted standards for expressing the efficiency of IT equipment. Discussions on the topic often get mired in the difficulties of comparing fundamentally different IT architectures.
Measure the actual efficiency of your Data Center
With our FastTrack analysis, Mansystems uses a unique “architecture effectiveness” definition that provides an insight into the actual efficiency of your data center:
The greatest gain in total chain efficiency results from better utilization of existing IT resources. Effective use of these resources requires, above all, knowledge, management and planning of current capacity but also that of future capacity needs.
This is a powerful statement, valid for all resources comprising your IT service: people, E&M infrastructure, IT infrastructure, time etc. The impact of optimization differs, of course, from element to element.
True data center efficiency is a multi- dimensional quantity.
Mansystems uses the 'Circle of Efficiency' to help visualize the complexity of energy impact factors.
Figure 2: Circle of Efficiency
Use Mansystems' FastTrack analysis to lower the overall energy use of your data center. No new hardware required.
Contact us and speak with one of our data center efficiency experts.
