Vigilent Cutting Energy From Akamai, NTT’s Data Centers
Summary
Its technology is managing over 2 million square feet of data centers, it has 45 data center installations (150 actual networks installed) and customers include content deliver network Akamai (s AKAM), Japanese telco NTT (s NTT) (and two other of the world’s largest telcos) and the state of California. Vigilent’s system can often times enable companies to remove entire chillers (commonly 30 to 40 percent of the air conditioning) out of the equation, reducing significant amounts of power. On top of the energy savings Vigilent, says having a better overview of the cooling systems and temperature of a data center can lead to improved reliability (servers aren’t overheating and failing), and can also reduce maintenance costs — removing chillers from the data center, removes the cost of maintaining those extra chillers. Yahoo (s YHOO), Facebook and Google (s GOOG) are all investing significantly in developing lower power data centers in an effort to reduce riding energy costs. Data centers are estimated to consume around 2 percent of the energy in the U.S. and that number is expected to grow as more and more people connect online and by always-on gadgets, cell phones and laptops.