Emerson Network Power Enhances Data Center Design Capabilities via Collaboration with Future Facilities
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Columbus, Ohio [May 9, 2007] - Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR) and the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity(TM), today announced its collaboration with Future Facilities, a design and operational solution provider for mission-critical facilities. As part of the agreement, Emerson Network Power and its Liebert business gain access to Future Facilities' 6SigmaDC suite of software products that help data center managers optimize facility operational performance while enhancing the resiliency and flexibility of its design.
Emerson Network Power will equip its Liebert design team with 6SigmaDC to accurately evaluate the ventilation performance of new and existing data centers. Future Facilities will incorporate data on Liebert precision cooling units from Emerson Network Power into its 6SigmaDC computational fluid dynamics (CFD) mathematical models of IT and other infrastructure equipment.
"Proper planning for power and cooling needs is the number one issue facing today's data center managers," said Fred Stack, vice president of marketing, Liebert business, Emerson Network Power. "Future Facilities' success in integrating the complex strands of CAD, CFD and load capacity management will complement our data center environmental assessment activities, which are designed to help customers understand their current status and provide them a change management tool for analyzing data center evolution."
6SigmaDC was introduced to empower data center designers and managers to fully test the effectiveness of facility layouts using tailored and predictive three-dimensional modeling that includes heat distribution within dynamic environments. A Virtual Facility© virtualization tool allows the scientific validation of considerations such as room dimensions, floor void depth, rack layout, the proper location of air handling units, and redundancy in cooling. From an operational perspective, an IT inventory management module helps to ensure that the layout remains accurate as utilization changes.
Hassan Moezzi, director of Future Facilities, said "The integration of the design and operational aspects of data centers has become increasingly mission critical as businesses around the globe look to ensure the long-term viability of their facilities. In using 6SigmaDC to create a single and holistic 3D view of the data center, Emerson Network Power can simulate the thermal and environmental impact of equipment loads prior to installation, thereby reducing risk and cost for its customers."
Moving forward, the two organizations plan to develop additional applications such as capital and operational cost analytical tools, as well as energy efficiency metrics for the power, cooling and space dimensions of facilities.
For more information on Liebert technologies and services from Emerson Network Power, visit www.liebert.com.
About Emerson Network Power
Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE:EMR), is the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity(TM). The company is the trusted source for adaptive and ultra-reliable solutions that enable and protect its customers' business-critical technology infrastructures. Backed by the largest global services organization in the industry, Emerson Network Power offers a full range of innovative power, precision cooling and connectivity products and services for computer, communications, healthcare and industrial systems. Key product brands within the Emerson Network Power family include Liebert, ASCO, Astec, and Lorain. The Liebert Adaptive Architecture creates power, cooling and monitoring platforms for IT systems that combine high reliability and flexibility while delivering the lowest total cost of ownership. For more information on Liebert visit www.liebert.com. For more information on the full spectrum of enterprise-wide solutions from Emerson Network Power, visit www.gotoemerson.com.
About Emerson
Emerson (NYSE: EMR), based in St. Louis, is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions to customers through its network power, process management, industrial automation, climate technologies, and appliance and tools businesses. Sales in fiscal 2006 were $20.1 billion. For more information, visit www.gotoemerson.com.
About Future Facilities Limited
Formed in January 2004, Future Facilities Limited is a privately owned company dedicated to delivering Design and Operational solutions to address the emerging environmental problems facing the modern Mission Critical Facilities. The company's founders are acknowledged experts in the design and application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software for the data center industry. In June 2006 the company announced its 6SigmaDC suite of integrated software products, which deliver a powerful toolset to meet the challenges of the design and operation phases of data center lifecycle engineering. Using the software to create a 3-dimensional Virtual Facility©, design assumptions as well as the impact of IT refresh can be accurately modeled and thermal/ environmental risk evaluated. In this way, facilities can be deployed and dynamic environments maintained with full confidence of their operational integrity. For more information about Future Facilities Limited, 6SigmaDC software and the Virtual Facility©, please visit www.futurefacilities.com.
