10 Things You Can Do With a Smart Data Center

You’ve heard of the smart phone, the smart home, and the smart TV. These internet-connected, AI-driven devices help us with our every day tasks from scheduling the air conditioning to seeing who is at our front door, preheating the oven to identifying new shows or movies for us to watch. They make our lives less complicated, almost worry-free, because in an instant, you know exactly where things stand.

Just like with everyday home devices, there’s the conception and vision of the Smart Data Center. The smart data center helps carry out tasks that connect you with your data center environments without being on-site. 

Here’s some traditionally on-site tasks you can perform and efficiencies you will gain from a smart data center:

1. Access real-time power draw at the circuit level; redistribute power rather than buy more power
2. Receive real-time alerts as circuit pairs cross thresholds; prevent overloading circuits
3. Be informed as rack-level temperature and humidity thresholds are crossed; avert equipment overheating
4. Identify available space to support additional racks; optimize existing floor plan 
5. Identify under and over-utilized racks; optimize workload distribution
6. View video footage of people and events occurring in your space with applied AI and facial recognition; additional layer of security/respond quickly to potential issues
7. Set real-time alerts when a specific person visits your environment, when there’s an open cabinet door or even when an unbadged person walks into your data center space (ie: data center personnel); faster response to events
8. Capture, record and log motion-based events within your suites and cages; meet compliance and audit retention requirements
9. Self-provision connectivity to primary clouds; access cloud workloads in minutes
10. Configure, troubleshoot and check performance statistics of key assets from anywhere; reduce business expenses related to onsite visits/faster response time

Just as smart devices continue to innovate to bring you intelligent home automation, so does the smart data center. Just think of all the tasks you routinely do and the efficiency you could gain from utilizing a smart data center. Chances are, QTS has found a way or will find a way to automate them.

If you'd like more information about our product family of remote data center management solutions, feel free to contact us! We can even provide a one-on-one demo.