- January 27, 2009
January 27, 2009 – EDSA Micro introduced an important new enhancement to its Paladin Live platform: the means to allow companies to isolate and reduce energy inefficiencies in their mission-critical facilities. The Paladin Live Real-Time Energy Management Advisor helps companies assess and reduce their energy costs in three principal ways, by:
- Increasing energy efficiency by showing precisely where, when, and how energy is being consumed, in order to assess where opportunities for energy saving may exist… and even enable facility personnel to conduct detailed, what-if simulations of energy efficiency strategies;
- Improving facility reliability and productivity by enabling facility operators to understand the real-time “system health” of their power infrastructure, in order to enact preventative measures. By detecting even the tiniest variations between the “as-is” and “as-designed” states of their power system, the Paladin platform helps to preempt costly system failures and energy inefficiencies;
- Enhancing profitability by enabling facility operators to fully understand the capacity and energy requirements of their present power system. This enables them to develop strategies for maximizing their existing operations before embarking on costly renovations or relocations. Because of their reliance on electrical power – as well as the enormous costs associated with energy and energy-related problems – energy management is a huge concern for C-level executives in all industries. These factors, plus public/investor pressure to be as environmentally responsible as possible, make energy planning a vital corporate priority. Paladin Live’s “model-based” architecture enables organizations to:
- Conduct model-based analyses of the power/energy network, to ensure the highest possible levels of accuracy and energy efficiency;
- Perform “What-If” simulations, to allow users to see the impact of decisions before implementing/investing in them… or simply test drive energy-saving ideas that could not be conducted on live infrastructure;
- Create vendor-neutral forensic analyses that protects customers’ investment in their current infrastructure; keeping them from unnecessarily replacing mission critical equipment. When combined with EDSA’s Paladin Reports, the platform’s standard energy report, and EDSA’s Blackboard Simulator, the Energy Module allows users to see what the changes would mean to the Green Grid’s standards of Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCiE). The system will retroactively show the change to both over any previous time period and predict future results based on anticipated changes to the users’ power infrastructure. The energy management platform is designed to be both powerful and flexible so that changes to rate structures, metrics, formats and other elements are easily accomplished without affecting the mission of the Paladin Live system. According to new electrical power efficiency standards developed by the global IT association, The Green Grid, there are three levels of PUE and DCiE monitoring: Stage One consists of manual data collection and tabulation; Stage Two consists of automated data collection and tabulation at a facility level; Stage Three consists of automated data collection and tabulation at an individual server level. With today’s announcement, Paladin Live surpasses the milestones established for Stage Two, and is the ideal platform to meet the best practices standards for Stage Three. AvailabilityEDSA’s Paladin Real Time Energy Management platform is a standard feature that will be included on all Paladin Live systems regardless of size, and is available to any Paladin Live customer with a current professional services agreement from EDSA.