With the new focus on EFFICIENCY within the data center, it is quite clear that there are TWO major sub-systems that actually comprise the 'data center'... the IT / Infrastructure stuff INSIDE the rooms (i.e. on the raise floor) and then the Facilities stuff which is distributed through the facility and outside in the back yards. For years, the IT and Facilites groups were autonomous, and simply expected the other to exist.

Today, it is very short-sighted to look at data center efficiency as ONLY a function of the Metrics available in the rooms themselves. We must not ignore the Metrics about the power generation and distribution and Cooling plants. Remember, for every WATT going into a room, it had to COME FROM somewhere, and it had to be COOLED in some way!

Modius recognized that need to a SINGLE system that gathers performance metrics from IT and Facilities and created the only distributed technology that has no limitations of scale or geography. It's pretty cool stuff (in my unbiased view! LOL)

Imagine being able to say "How much POWER is my Fortune 100 company using right now?" I bet the CIO and CFO would love to know that. "How much is Power costing me this month?", "What is the PUE of each of my data centers?", "What is my Carbon Footprint?", etc etc etc.

These answers are possible today, and Modius customers are doing so TODAY! Data Center Metrics live across the data center and facilities, and can be treated as parts of a single system--- if you want to!