The information for each Data Center Energy Management Product below has been prepared from information on the vendors web site. The list is arranged in alphabetical order by type. The title of each Data Center Energy Management Product is linked to the vendors home page.

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Open Source Solutions

energyManager

energyManager is an open source software platform that allows Data Center managers to measure, graph and manage their Data Center Energy Consumption. energyManager is built on Cacti and RRDTool, the open source leaders for storing and graphing time series data. It uses the data centers existing power distribution equipment (SNMP) to measure the volts, amps, Real Power and Apparent Power being consumed by the data center servers, storage and networking equipment. Visit the Green Computing - Open Source Measuring Forum for discussion and user comments!

Osmius: The Open Source Monitoring Tool

"You can't manage what you can't monitor" Osmius is software for supervising heterogeneous systems using multi-platform agents distributed over a network. With Osmius you can control network elements like servers, data bases, web or ftp servers, the temperature sensors in an industry production chain or a domestic electrical appliance, and represent the data in meaningful groups and charts to the user with web consoles. Visit the Green Computing - Open Source Measuring Forum for discussion and user comments!

Commercial Solutions

Arch Rock Energy Optimizer™
Monitor thermal efficiency at any granularity in time and space and get real-time alerts. Get the complete picture with real-time knowledge of every PDU, circuit and rack's power usage and power factor. Visit the Green Computing - Measuring Forum for discussion and user comments!

CA ecoSoftware
CA ecoSoftware helps you cut energy costs, manage energy consumption, reduce carbon emissions and meet your environmental goals. It can provide valuable up-to-date information about energy patterns using data captured directly from your organization. Visit the Green Computing - Measuring Forum for discussion and user comments!

EpiSensor
EpiSensor's SiCA Platform™ can be used for wireless street light monitoring, building management, data center monitoring, temperature tracking and automatic meter reading systems. Visit the Green Computing - Measuring Forum for discussion and user comments!

Intel® Data Center Manager

Intel® Data Center Manager (Intel® DCM) SDK provides power and thermal monitoring and management for servers, racks and groups of servers in data centers. Management Console Vendors (ISVs) and System Integrators (SIs) can integrate Intel® DCM into their console or command-line applications and provide high value power management features to IT organizations. Visit the Green Computing - Measuring Forum for discussion and user comments!

Packet Power
Packet Power provides the insight that companies need to reduce their data center power consumption. Our solution gathers detailed information down to the device level and can be installed within an hour without disruption to your power or IT infrastructure. Visit the Green Computing - Measuring Forum for discussion and user comments!

Power Assure - Power Management for Data Centers
Power Assure lowers your data center energy costs by dynamically balancing the supply of servers in your data center in order to meet actual customer demand. Choose any action you want: put the servers to sleep, turn off selected components, repurpose servers, or shut them down. Visit the Green Computing - Measuring Forum for discussion and user comments!

Modius OpenData
Modius® offers a complete measurement and monitoring solution for generating a single, real-time view of all business critical facilities across the enterprise, including all major data centers, server rooms, branch offices, and IDF closets. Visit the Green Computing - Measuring Forum for discussion and user comments!

Raritan Power IQ
Raritan offers Power IQ energy management software that centalizes power control and analytics from Raritan's intelligent PDUs and a wide range of third party rack PDUs including APC and Server Technology. Visit the Green Computing - Measuring Forum for discussion and user comments!

SeaMicro

Backed by the premier investors in Silicon Valley and with leading corporate sponsorship, SeaMicro is building solutions that revolutionize the data center landscape. Currently in stealth mode, SeaMicro is led by a team of industry veterans who bring together unique expertise in data networking, computation and data center design. Visit the Green Computing - Measuring Forum for discussion and user comments!

Sentilla Energy Manager for Data Centers™
Sentilla Energy Manager for Data Centers™, measures, tracks and analyzes the entire data center's energy profile, and makes recommendations that directly reduce energy use while improving per­formance. Visit the Green Computing - Measuring Forum for discussion and user comments!

Sentry Power Manager

Sentry Power Manager provides a global view of all Sentry CDUs with the ability to view devices based on their temperature, humidity, current and device status. Besides managing and monitoring all alarm conditions, this information can also be used to provide reporting and trending information for display within SPM or integrated with your existing Building Management System (BMS). Visit the Green Computing - Measuring Forum for discussion and user comments!

SynapSoft™ 5.0
SynapSoft™ 5.0 is a wireless data center monitoring and energy management solution. It provides real time visibility, enhanced monitoring alerts and air mixing metrics which lead to significant energy savings. Visit the Green Computing - Measuring Forum for discussion and user comments!