by Shane Henson — September 14, 2011—Facilities personnel working in the U.S. intelligence community who oversee their agency’s or company’s data centers will have increased access to Power Assure’s EM/4 Data Center Energy Management platform through a strategic investment and development agreement that Power Assure, a data center infrastructure and energy management solutions provider, recently signed with In-Q-Tel (IQT), a strategic investment firm that identifies innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the U.S. intelligence community.
“Power Assure is an important addition to our strategic investment portfolio,” said William Strecker, executive vice president of architecture and engineering and CTO of IQT. “Power Assure’s software will offer our customers in the U.S. intelligence community capabilities to drive additional efficiencies into their data centers by managing power consumption, optimizing asset utilization, and aligning power management with business processes.”
According to Power Assure’s management, the company’s innovative EM/4 Data Center Energy Management platform provides actionable, real-time and historical insight into power utilization and other key performance indicators (KPIs) for the data center, along with the means to analyze, optimize and automate energy efficiency while maintaining service levels. Power Assure enables data center managers to quickly visualize and identify inefficiencies in a comprehensive way; maximize use of available space and power; extend the useful life of the data center; cut on-going power consumption by an average of 50 percent; and shift load within and across sites.
