Software Innovator for Making Data Centers More Efficient Joins The Green
Grid's Efforts to Increase Energy Efficiency
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Cassatt(R) Corporation, a
leader in making data centers more efficient, today announced its
membership in The Green Grid, a non-profit consortium dedicated to
advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing
ecosystems.
The Green Grid is chartered to develop meaningful, platform-neutral
standards, measurement methods, processes, and new technologies to address
global energy consumption issues.
"More than 65 percent of people we surveyed recently consider their
data center energy efficiency 'average' or worse(1)," said Bill Coleman,
chairman and CEO of Cassatt Corp. "This is a serious issue with both
immediate, bottom-line impact and broader, longer-term consequences. By
joining The Green Grid, Cassatt is emphasizing its very public commitment
to work with key industry influencers to help customers identify and
resolve their data center power problems. At the same time, we are helping
customers move toward more efficient data centers that can actively respond
to business requirements through solutions we are delivering to the
marketplace."
Cassatt's innovative software lets customers use policy to actively
control sets of servers -- safely turning servers off when idle or not
needed and then back on when demand warrants.
Typically, servers that deliver applications run hot 24 by 7 and their
failover systems are always on, which can cost millions of dollars to
maintain in terms of real estate, hardware, duplicate software licenses and
maintenance contracts, and cooling. However, many servers, especially in
development and test centers, scale-out production environments, failover,
and disaster recovery sites, sit idle for long periods until they are
needed.
By actively powering servers on and off as needed, the Cassatt Active
Response product line can cut power usage by as much as 50 percent. The
Cassatt products can also be used to pool physical and virtual servers,
re-allocating them as policy and demand dictate. This approach improves
operational and capital efficiencies, while increasing application
availability and making a customer's IT infrastructure more responsive to
changing business needs.
The underlying technology in the Cassatt Active Response product line
that makes it safe to turn servers off and on is called Cassatt Active
Power Management(TM). The technology employs a sophisticated policy engine
that takes into account server priorities and needs, server
interrelationships, application dependencies and relationships, and
individual server power consumption in deciding when to power-down and
power-up machines. It looks at variables such as peak and off-peak power
schedules, time of day, and emergencies such as "demand curtailment"
mandates from power companies to reduce electrical consumption -- for
example, on hot summer weekdays. The technology determines which servers to
power down, and for how long, and then safely handles application
requirements before turning them off and back on as application demand
warrants.
Powering off unused servers has been recommended by several key
organizations looking closely at the issue of data center energy
efficiency, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), The
Uptime Institute, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories.
In addition to The Green Grid, Cassatt is a member of the Silicon
Valley Leadership Group (http://www.svlg.net), a cooperative effort by
local, regional, state, and federal government officials to address major
public policy issues affecting the economic health and quality of life in
Silicon Valley. Cassatt CFO Karen Willem is executive co-chair of the
Leadership Group's Energy Efficient Data Center Demonstration Project
working group. This green IT demonstration project includes approximately
30 Silicon Valley end users, governmental organizations like Lawrence
Berkeley Labs, Bay Area universities, and technology vendors working
together to deliver examples of smart, energy-efficient data center
computing equipment, operations, and supporting infrastructure.
More information about Cassatt solutions and the company's approach to
reducing power consumption in the data center can be found at
http://www.cassatt.com/sltn_power_mgmt.htm.
Membership in the The Green Grid is open to companies interested in
data center operational efficiency. Further information about The Green
Grid can be found at http://www.thegreengrid.org.
About Cassatt Corporation
Cassatt helps companies run a green data center with innovative
technologies and software solutions to maximize energy and operational
efficiencies. The Cassatt Active Response product line is based on
patent-pending Active Power Management technology that safely and
intelligently powers servers off and on, based on demand, cutting an
organization's energy usage by as much as 50 percent. Cassatt is based in
San Jose, Calif., and is on the web at http://cassatt.com.
Media Contact:
Steve Eisenstadt
Page One PR
+1-919-781-8096
steve@pageonepr.com
1. Cassatt Energy Efficiency Survey, December 2007,
http://www.cassatt.com/resources.php?ID=71.
Copyright (C) 2008 Cassatt Corporation. All rights reserved. Cassatt is
a registered trademark and Cassatt Active Power Management is a trademark
of Cassatt Corporation. Third party marks and brands are the property of
their respective holders.
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Related links:
http://cassatt.com
http://www.thegreengrid.org
CONTACT:
Steve Eisenstadt of Page One PR,
+1-919-781-8096, steve@pageonepr.com, for Cassatt Corporation
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