dell and emerson network power partner to reduce power consumption in customers’ data centres by 42 percent
Energy Smart Solutions Further Enhance Leadership Position in Energy Efficiency with up to 801 Percent Increase in Data Centre Performance
Dell announced an agreement with Emerson Network Power to help customers dramatically lower their data centre power and cooling requirements while increasing performance and implementing long-term energy-efficient IT strategies.
The Dell and Emerson Network Power Energy Smart Solution combines Dell’s innovative PowerEdge™ Energy Smart servers with Liebert XD supplemental cooling technology and Liebert High Precision Air Conditioning cooling systems to deliver up to 80 percent in systems performance increase and up to 42 percent reduction in facility power compared to previous generations of Dell servers.1 This offering will empower customers to help simplify their IT environments, achieve greater power efficiency and reclaim more data centre space.
“CIO’s and facilities managers are consistently faced with the challenge of increasing computing capacity to meet growing business needs while concurrently minimising energy costs,” said Jeff Kimbell, Vice President of Marketing, Dell EMEA. “By reducing both operational costs and the carbon footprint for our customers, Dell is simplifying the way businesses can take advantage of energy efficient programs and technologies without compromising IT performance.”
Dell is designing new Energy Smart Services to help customers identify power and cooling inefficiencies, assess data centre infrastructure and systems capacities, develop recommendations for improvements to optimise computing capacity, reclaim data centre space and reduce energy usage. This holistic, simplified approach to designing and optimising standards-based IT infrastructures will help enable customers to take advantage of proven, end-to-end solutions for today’s most pressing data centre energy issues while planning for future business growth.
