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IBM Systems Director Active Energy ManagerOptimizing Data Center Energy Capacity

IBM Power SystemsOctober 2009

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Why your customers care about energy management• Do you need to identify thermal problems for your servers, or cooling problems with your CRAC units?

Monitor power issues in real time to control energy consumption

• Do you have the tools you need to identify trends in energy use in your IT operations center?

Negotiate the best utility rates based on accurate power trend assessmentsHelp reduce energy costs for cooling with thermal trending for localized temperature

adjustments within IT environments

• Are you considering a data center upgrade or building a new data center because you are out of capacity in your existing facility?

When retrofitting or building a new data center, do it right the first time Trend current energy consumption on individual or groups of systems to show growth

patterns in power consumption and cooling needsProvide better planning information with power calculators on new system

configurations

• Do you need to automate reductions in energy use for non-critical workloads?Power saving mode can potentially save up to 30% of processor energy use

Power Systems October 20 Launch

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Active Energy Manager is part of a total solution providing improved energy efficiency to help avoid costly data center upgrades/new construction

•Improved monitoring and control of server energy usage

Enhanced 3rd-party facilities equipment support (more sensors and meters supported)Alerts surfaced for servers affected by a power or cooling failureControl and set energy caps

•Balance workloads across servers to fit electrical power and thermal profiles

Create and display relationships between all servers, and the power and cooling equipment supporting themCollect data to better plan what servers to power off and when

IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager 4.2

“Using Active Energy Manager, IBM Intelligent PDUs are allowing us to monitor the data center to optimize temperature and humidity – resulting in an almost 50% reduction (10 tons) in cooling costs with the first month of operation.”

- Jim Oberholtzer, VP Technology United States

Bowling Congress

Power Systems October 20 Launch

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Where can I get more information?

Client reference:– US Bowling Congress

Sales resources:– Systems Director sales kit (cross-brand)– Power Systems management sales kit

Marketing contacts– Lori Hewitt (lhewitt@us.ibm.com) – Power systems offerings– Michael Tabron (tabron@us.ibm.com) – Power Systems sales enablement

http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/management/solutions.html