ACE Assessment Service Announcement

Future Facilities Announces New ACE Assessment Service to Help Data Center Managers Measure Their Performance Gap Service offering identifies three variables that measure success and failure of a data center's operations San Jose, Calif. - December 10, 2013 - Future Facilities, Inc., a leading provider of data center design and operational management software, today announced the launch of its ACE Data Center Performance Assessment Service, a new offering to assess and visualize three critical indicators of data center performance - Availability, Capacity and Efficiency. Successful data center operation is about winning the battle against change. Each change has the potential to chip away at one or more of the interconnected performance indicators. The ACE Assessment starts with the creation of a Predictive Model (Virtual Facility) of the data center using 6SigmaDC software. The Virtual Facility is then used to calculate the indicators: Availability: % of existing connected IT load that will always be available under what if power and cooling failure conditions Capacity: % of the design IT load that can be achieved by adding to the present day layout Efficiency: The effectiveness of airflow and temperature delivery (compared to ASHRAE standards) ACE is the only service available that allows operators to visually plot their 'performance gap' - the difference between maximum design potential and real-world operational potential. The ACE Service also pinpoints potential improvements to close the performance gap. "We developed ACE as a new way to assess and visualize the performance state of the data center and to help the operator understand where they need to go to close the performance gap," said Sherman Ikemoto, Director of Future Facilities, Inc. In 2011, using the tools of the ACE Assessment Service, Future Facilities was able to help a global investment bank increase availability to 100%, RECLAIM 350KW of lost capacity, and realize a 15% improvement in PUE. For more information on the ACE Assessment Service, please visit: www.futurefacilities.com/ACE. In October, Future Facilities announced Release 8 of its 6SigmaDC software, giving users enhanced connectivity to third-party live data sources (such as sensors, servers, PDUs, ACUs), and the ability to incorporate predictive modeling into their DCIM workflows. About Future Facilities For nearly a decade, Future Facilities has provided software and consultancy to the world's largest data center owner-operators and to leading electronics designers. The company, which is privately funded, has saved its customers millions of dollars. Innovative and progressive, Future Facilities is today unique in the market place; it is the only company providing scientifically-sound answers to the what-ifs? that have for so long been impossible to answer with real confidence.