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VITUAL POWER SYSTEMS, INC.
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ICE® PRODUCT SUITE OVERVIEW
ICE ® - Intelligent Control of Energy® for data centers
ICE is a Software Defined Power® platform developed by Virtual Power Systems, that exercises intelligent control of power
utilization in data centers. The ICE Center uses the existing data center infrastructure footprint to deliver more power, elasticizing the power capacity as a resource pool. It intelligently and dynamically allocates power to racks, branch
circuits, and IT nodes; with a constant awareness of the power consumption needs across the data center topology.
This continuous decision-making process optimizes power consumption and creates capacity for additional IT servers. ICE allows data centers to increase the capacity utilization, reliability, and availability of the existing infrastructure.
VPS ICE solutions are a combination of hardware and software modules that can be placed on the power control plane within the topological configuration of a data center. It is vendor and technology agnostic, being flexible to accomplish the data center needs
with the ICE mechanisms.
ICE PRODUCT SUITE OVERVIEW
© Virtual Power Systems, Inc.
ICE SOFTWARE The ICE software platform provides a comprehensive solution for realizing the advantages of elastic power. It is designed to help users get the most out of their IT environments while being simple to use. ICE CENTER PLATFORM
o The ICE Center collects data from all data center devices in real-time, making changes to the device's operation based on machine learning algorithms that optimize power utilization.
o Operate across disparate hardware devices, sensors and IT & facilities management systems used in data centers.
ICE MECHANISMS ICE is a flexible platform that allows customers to use a variety of existing mechanisms and build their own.
o A suite of high-performance applications that automate and optimize power use allocation to Servers, Racks, Branch Circuits, and Facilities.
o Provide secure and real time visibility and control to Operators. o Designed to learn and adapt.
ICE CLOUD AND REMOTE SERVICES
o Secure remote services based on access rights for visibility and control of Data Center.
o Learning and Customer Support & Management Services. The ICE Software platform enables power capacitance in a rack or branch circuit, by making intelligent use of batteries in power hardware provided by third parties. It acquires relevant real time metrics about power use and IT operations from third party sensors and interfaces. It uses this to automatically and intelligently power distribution through third party power hardware controls and IT management systems.
ICE PRODUCT SUITE OVERVIEW
INCREASE EFFICIENCY
INCREASE RELIABILITY AND POWER AVAILABILITY TO IT
AUTOMATION
SCALABILITY AND FLEXIBILITY
o Provision more IT and Data Center
Equipment in existing Power Footprint. o Avoid Capex for new Power, Space
and Facilities Infrastructure. o Reduce OpEx through lower by
reduced maintenance and power bills.
o Provide power to support sudden surges or peaks in racks.
o Improve power resiliency under different conditions of failure of systems and modes.
o Predict potential failures to mitigate their impact and offer visibility to recover rapidly.
o Reduce skill and manually intensive operations, such as, work-load placement, or short circuit studies, or maintenance.
o Efficiently target operator intervention and management.
o Efficiently plan Data Center Capacity and avoid skill and time expensive project cycles.
o Enable incremental, modular and non-disruptive power capacity augmentation aligned with top-line growth.
o Operate more hybrid-load racks or branch circuits.
ICE, THE NEXT STEP TO A SOFTWARE DEFINED DATA CENTER
More Efficient, Reliable, Automated & Scalable Data Centers
IT Operators have come to rely on the many benefits of virtualization of servers, storage and networking in data centers. However revolutionary, these technologies had not yet extended to power utilization in data centers. Virtual Power Systems has developed the Software Defined Power® (SDP) platform to answer these problems: a strategy for data center infrastructure providers that allows for an opportunity to compete by offering customers comparable flexibility and availability while allowing lower costs. The SDP strategy was developed as the final pillar of data center virtualization.
ICE PRODUCT SUITE OVERVIEW
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ICE VALUE PROPOSITION One of the greatest strengths of the ICE platform is its versatility. VPS has the capability to adapt to the specific data center topology and its limitations to develop different ICE mechanisms. ICE provides data center operators this ability by intelligent visibility and control automation. Operators can deploy ICE to instantly unlock previously unusable power capacity. They can do this without the extensive project management resources and timelines that making additional power capacity available would have required. DATA CENTER PROVIDERS o Support more circuits or IT workload within existing
infrastructure → Large increase in topline, most of which flows to your bottom line.
o Offer greater visibility and control to your customers → Stickier relationships, better value and choice for customers.
o Lower CAPEX by new build-out avoidance.
o Lower OPEX by implementing more automated and efficient operations
DATA CENTER OPERATORS
o Instant availability of additional power → Avoid extended
project management
o Dynamically provision IT.
o Reduce Capex by improved power utilization, on both power supply and server side.
o Better visibility & automation → Less skill-intense & error-
prone operation management.
o Flexible and Efficient Management of own and hybrid data center operations, hybrid power and system racks.
o Reduce OPEX through lower maintenance and power bi
