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Inside a Green Mountain data centre
solution for its customers , Green Mountain originally used a standard vendor service , but quickly realised that it wasn ’ t good enough .
“ There were a lot of limitations ,” Gyland explains . “ The cost of consultants was exploding , there were licensing issues , and problems with integration . So , three years ago , we decided to develop our own system .
“ The one thing about us operating as a co-location facility is that we ’ re not that involved in what ’ s happening in the rack – that ’ s the customer ’ s responsibility – and a lot of the DCIM products cover the entire range of rack information , so we were able just to take what we needed for our requirements and built it into our own system .”
One major advantage of the service Green Mountain has ended up with is cutting down on administrative work , due to the system itself generating reports for the customer . The customer can see the overview of what is happening with their servers in real-time , but on top of that , Green Mountain creates PDF reports and automatically bills clients for power .
“ We wanted a solution where we could automatically match the agreed SLA [ service-level agreement ] with the achieved SLA . We had that as a goal and spent half a year developing our own solution . Having gone live in October last year , this solution has revolutionised the market . A lot of our competitors see what we ’ ve done and are envious of it . We have even received several awards for it .” So where can Green Mountain go from here ? Gyland is currently focussed on further improving sustainability within
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