Emerson Network Power Intros Efficiency Audit Service for SMBs
†uses industry benchmarks and best practices to identify opportunities to increase availability, reduce costs, and unlock capacity.
Emerson Network Power’s newly introduced Liebert Data Center Audit for 
SMBs is ideal for those data center managers looking to take on virtualization, consolidation, or blade implementation projects in the new year.
Emerson Network Power introduced its Liebert Data Center Audit last week as an affordable, onsite IT infrastructure assessment that will help SMBs identify, evaluate, and resolve cooling and power vulnerabilities that could threaten data center performance and efficiency.
Offered by Liebert reseller partners, the audit uses industry benchmarks and best practices to identify opportunities to increase availability, reduce costs, and unlock capacity. Then, it provides prioritized and actionable recommendations to data center managers.
“Data centers are dynamic environments, where computer equipment is often moved or changed without sufficient attention to the impact of those changes on support infrastructure,” says Tom Karabinos, director of partner channels at Liebert products of Emerson Network Power. “The Liebert Data Center Audit allows our reseller partners to assist their customers in isolating potential vulnerabilities before they adversely affect the performance of the IT environment and identify cost-effective strategies for increasing capacity and efficiency.”
“The on-site Liebert Data Center Audit integrates a methodical evaluation of infrastructure technologies and practices with the expertise of Emerson Network Power’s power and cooling specialists,” explains Mark Melvin, chief technology officer at ePlus, a Liebert partner. “We’ve found that the audit enables us to give our customers a snapshot of their data centers that provides essential information to support budget requests, and reinforces our role as a trusted advisor.”
Designed for data centers 2,500 square feet and smaller, the custom audit report compares a North America-based customer’s data center equipment and operations against more than 50 industry benchmarks in the areas of power, cooling, racks and cabling, monitoring, service, and general facility and security. Results of the onsite analysis are combined with decades of industry expertise to provide a detailed report that helps customers strengthen business performance now, and prepares them to scale IT to growth in 2010 and beyond.
