Maximizing Data Center Performance: New Assessment Offering

Running a reliable, cost-efficient, and agile data center is no easy feat, given today's high-performance applications, high-density IT hardware, and emerging carbon emission regulations. These requirements can indeed pull in opposing directions—efficiency can impact resilience, and flexibility can raise inefficiency, potentially affecting your data center's performance. But what if you could balance the risks and energy efficiency of your data center to an acceptable level? Enter the Cadence Data Center Performance Assessment service.

The Performance Challenge of Current Data Center Operations

Modern data center operators are grappling with the challenge of managing the surge in high-performance applications and high-density IT hardware. This trend towards mixed-density IT equipment, especially when introduced into legacy data center facilities, significantly elevates the risk of hotspots and system failures. In an effort to mitigate these risks, operators frequently resort to overcompensating with excessive power and cooling resources.

While intended to safeguard the data center's operational integrity, this approach unfortunately leads to elevated carbon emissions and spiraling energy costs. Such outcomes stand in stark contrast to the growing environmental and fiscal demands for efficiency in data center operations, emphasizing the critical need for strategic data center capacity planning.

The complexity of accommodating these technological advancements without compromising on efficiency underscores the importance of advanced data center capacity planning. Optimal data center performance lies at a balance between risk and energy efficiency. However, many operators are missing critical tools that offer visibility into key metrics that inform their operational decision-making, compromising data center performance.

New Performance Assessment Offering

The need to quantify performance and assess the effects of changes on operations is paramount in the data center industry, especially within the context of effective data center capacity planning. A performance assessment using baseline science-backed data is the first step toward understanding how to balance the conflicting parameters of data center performance. Our data center engineer specialists employ a science-backed process to assess your current data center performance, highlight challenges, and offer recommendations for improvements that align with optimal data center capacity planning.

Cadence uses the Green Grid Performance Indicator Level 3 Assessment as a foundational tool to kick-start this process, ensuring that capacity planning decisions can be more informed and strategic. We begin with a comprehensive site survey, build a preliminary digital twin model to simulate capacity scenarios, calculate and explain your Performance Indicator score, and conclude with strategic recommendations for enhancing capacity utilization.

The Performance Indicator score is a pivotal tool and first step in visualizing the balance of data center performance, reviewing configuration options for operational planning, assessing current performance, and envisaging the future effect of proposed changes before IT deployments happen. Targeted adjustments to data center operations, informed by our comprehensive assessment, can significantly impact the effective use of data center space while driving energy efficiency and ensuring that capacity planning objectives are met.

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This assessment highlights key performance gains and quick wins, putting operators on the path toward a more efficient data center. Request your Data Center Performance Assessment today and set your data center on the path to maximized performance.