IT and telecommunications provider,
Daisy Group, is successfully using EkkoSoft Critical, an intuitive and immersive web-based 3D software and sensor offering for managing its critical data centre facilities. Used as part of a strategic data centre optimisation service by EkkoSense, the solution has already helped to reduce energy costs by 19% at one of Daisy’s key UK data centres and the project is set to achieve a full Return on Investment in under a year.
EkkoSense Critical presents a real-time 3D view of one of both physical and thermal data centre dynamics. Using this real-time data, EkkoSense consultants have helped implement changes to provide Daisy with the following business benefits:
- Significant energy saving opportunities - 19% cooling energy reduction achieved to date
- Complete ROI within 1 year
- Thermal compliance: hot spots removed to place all IT systems within ASHRAE recommended ranges
- Balanced airflow, recovering lost cooling capacity and ensuring resilience
- Cooling & airflow resilience testing and certification
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Les Price, Head of Business Continuity operations at Daisy comments: “While the initial brief was to look at energy savings in one of our data centres, we were delighted that the solution also identified potential thermal risks from both over- and under-cooling. We worked with EkkoSense’s consultants to make immediate long term changes to our cooling strategy to eradicate this risk – preventing outages and at the same time benefitting our bottom line by saving energy costs. Due to the success of the project we have now asked EkkoSense to carry out similar consultancy engagements using the software in our other data centres. After the results shown during this first project, it clearly makes sense to extend the project across our other data centre sites.”
Stu Redshaw, CTO at EkkoSense said: ”Since its launch in April this year EkkoSense Critical has been exceptionally well received. Firstly because it is so visual – our customers can see their thermal risks; secondly because it shows the data Centre thermal estate in real-time – showing immediate changes once remedy strategies are implemented; and thirdly the results – risk reduction, increased capacity and reduced energy costs are compelling.”
