With the data center’s rapidly growing demand for power, the rising cost of energy, and almost a quarter of global carbon emissions attributed to data center emissions, it is hard to ignore the economic and environmental benefits of ‘going green’. By leveraging Platform technology, Dynamic Power Optimizer provides a unique energy saving solution that enables you to cost-effectively power your data center. Through deploying green IT strategies such as energy cost and power usage optimization, and temperature leveling of the data center, Dynamic Power Optimizer dynamically maximizes application workload throughput while reducing power and cooling costs.

Dynamic Power Optimizer complements any Platform LSF, Platform Symphony, or Platform-based cloud infrastructure deployment by further driving data center efficiency through automated power management. It is an add-on “Green Grid” module that intelligently schedules workload and manages power in conjunction with dynamic user demands, allowing data centers to gain an additional 5-10% energy saving. Dynamic Power Optimizer leverages Platform Enterprise Grid Orchestrator (Platform EGO) to use business policies and application energy consumption profiles to control workload and determine optimal times for server switch-off.

How you can benefit from Dynamic Power Optimizer:

• Reduce energy consumption and costs by making sure application workloads drive power usage only when needed
• Achieve significant pay-off – Platform can demonstrate the energy ROI with customer examples of energy cost savings –  typically for hundreds of thousand, in some cases 1,000,000s, of dollars per year
• Support energy consumption optimization without major incremental investments
• Evaluate and manage the effectiveness and ROI of your green initiatives
• Tune policies to achieve greater efficiency as your business demands change over time
• Gain greater visibility and control over data center resources and energy expenses
• Meet corporate and government mandates for green initiatives
• Promote your corporate profile by enabling a ‘green’ data center

Selected facts about the Dynamic Power Optimizer:

• Dynamically and optimally schedules workloads to periods when energy costs are lower without compromising SLAs
• Keeps energy costs at a minimum by dynamically powering off or hibernating underutilized hosts, and powering on the most energy efficient hosts first, when the workload demands it
• Dynamically distributes workloads to servers in the coolest zones to flatten thermal spikes or ‘hot spots’. HVAC units cooling the data center can then be run at much less than maximum capacity, and significantly reducing their total power consumption
• Enables workload and power management policies that conform to and support business objectives. Through policy-driven management, you have full control over workload throughput, the allocation and use of data center resources, and power consumption costs, to ensure business goals are met
• Maximizes power efficiency by optimizing resource and power utilization in a dynamically shared infrastructure that supports multiple application workloads