Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is a standard developed by The Green Grid™ consortium to provide a clear answer to the primary issue surrounding energy efficiency within any data center. It considers how much power is devoted to driving the actual computing/IT components, like servers, versus the ancillary support elements, such as cooling and lighting.

In today’s digital economy, data centers cannot afford to “go down” because when they do, companies suffer. But according to a survey of more than 100 data center professionals, only 35 percent are using a single, dedicated monitoring system that provides the level of detail necessary for outage prevention and efficient incident management.