The issue of power and cooling poses a real challenge to today's datacenter, in both financial and operational terms, particularly as customers are beginning to integrate IT departments and corporate facilities and continuing to drive initiatives to consolidate datacenter resources. The resulting high-density environment has an increased requirement for predictive analytics and comprehensive metrics on power and cooling. To achieve optimal utilization of compute resources, customers must be able to measure, analyze, and, most importantly, dynamically provision power supply and cooling capacity to match utilization rates. Customers need to be able to break away from the practice of overprovisioning power and cooling supplies. Additionally, vendors need to supply solutions that enable datacenters to convert a higher percentage of energy to compute capacity.
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