JEM Tech Group is Joining the Energy Movement!

JEM is helping customers with products and services to transform their data centers and office areas into energy efficient places.

Ideas to "Green" the Data Center

1. Evaluate your energy efficiency and measure your energy consumption in the data center: Companies need to start with a baseline by figuring out what the company is paying per kilowatt hour (peak and off peak hours) and how much the data center is using in comparison to the entire building per month. Once the baseline is determined, you can track your changes by using PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) which was developed by The Green Grid. PUE is calculated by dividing the total utility load by the total IT equipment load. In this case, a lower number is better. Older data centers typically have a PUE of about 3 or 4, while new data centers can achieve a PUE of 1.5 or less. A data center's energy usage consists mostly of server and HVAC electrical consumption.
2. Improve HVAC efficiencies and air flow management by considering containment products: hot/cold aisle containment, chimney cabinets, blanking plates for your cabinets and brushed grommets for the holes in the raised floor. By making some changes in the data center to improve on your air flow, most companies are able to increase the temperatures on the CRACs.
3. Review all of your IT Assets in the Data Center: Servers are consuming a large portion of energy in the data center. Some servers might be running applications that are infrequently needed or simply no longer used. There are plenty of tools that allow a system administrator to tracker server utilization and this information can be a great addition to your baseline measurement toolkit. A decent server utilization percentage will significantly increase your data center efficiency. Fewer running servers will reduce electrical and HVAC costs and can free up existing server hardware. Server utilization can be increased by consolidating server functions and tasks onto fewer machines by taking advantage of server virtualization and also by using cloud computing services where demand is known to fluctuate. Any future purchases of IT assets, energy efficient products should be purchased.

Ideas for Energy Efficient Products for the Data Center:

1. AFCO Products: www.afcosystems.com - Leader in Green Data Center Resources - High kW per Rack Mount Enclouser Solutions
2. CMS Cooling: www.cmscooling.com - State-of-the-Art Energy Efficient Data Center Cooling Systems
3. Opengate: www.opengatedata.com - Active Chimney Cabinets Working with Multi Rack Manufacturers
4. Cold Aisle and/or Hot Aisle Containment: There are a lot of options for curtains and door style containment. How you deploy containment depends on everyone's current data center layout. Ask us about the different containment options.
5. AdaptivCool: www.adaptivcool.com - Airflow Management Products Eliminate Server Hotspots, Save Energy and improve PUE with 20 to 40% Cooling Efficiency Improvement.
6. Remote Power & Power Management Software - www.raritan.com - Raritan's intelligent power and energy mangement solutions allow data center operations and facility managers and IT administrators to be more efficient with their limited energy resources.
   www.raritan.com/products/power-management/power-iq (Power Software)
   www.raritan.com/products/power-management/dominion-px (Remote Power)
7. Environet: www.geistif.com - Designed to simplify monitoring by integrating multiple communication protocols into one comprehensive system, Environet is the ultimate solution for your monitoring needs.
8. Power Assure: www.powerassure.com - Power Assure delivers business automation software that reduces energy use and carbon emissions in corporate and government data centers.
   
9. Environmental Monitoring: www.rletech.com - Always know what is going on in your data center via IP.
10. dcTrack: a Data Center Infrastructure Management Software Tool: www.raritan.com/products/infrastructure-management/dctrack
11. Raise Floor Grommets & Blanking Plates: www.upsitetechnologies.com - There are other brands of grommets and blanking plates in the marketplace, we represent too.
12. We are continually looking for other infrastructure products, which will compliment JEM's Product Offerings.

Ideas for Energy Efficient Products for the Desktops and Peripherals

1. Smart Strip Information: www.bitsltd.net/Sales-and-PR-Media/Data-Sheets/sales-tools.html - look at the executive order from President Bush

Energy Rebates:

Good Websites to Review:

1. www.uptimeinstitute.org
2. www.greendatacenternews.org
3. www.ashrae.org
4. www.thegreengrid.org
5. www.usgbc.org
6. www.eeba.org
7. www.thegbi.org
8. www.sbicouncil.org
9. www.raritan.com/energy-consumption-management
10. www.greendatacenterconference.com

If you are interested in learning more about energy efficient products,
contact us at: (586) 783-3400 or email: support@jemtechgroup.com.