Viridity's software will prevent such mishaps, the company believes."Viridity will provide customers with the ability to model power consumption through the IT layer, by tying applications to the specific IT equipment that supports them," a company press release states. "Not only will the connections be mapped, but the relative business criticality of each application will be analyzed as well. The breadth and depth of this correlation is critical, as this is where virtually all of the data center's power demand is derived from."Follow Jon Brodkin on Twitter: www.twitter.com/jbrodkin