Globally acclaimed specialist in energy management for data communications, Schneider Electric, has introduced StruxureWare for Data Centers.
This comes in form of a management software suite designed
to address all aspects of the data centre physical infrastructure needed to
maximize availability and efficiency.
Confirming this, Mr. Kevin Brown, vice president, data
Centre global offer and strategy, Schneider Electric, said the StruxureWare for
Data Centers combines Schneider Electric’s Data Center Infrastructure
Management (DCIM) and Data Center Facility Management (DCFM) software tools.
These, he said, would provide data gathering, monitoring and
automation, and planning and implementation functionalities enabling an
integrated and multifaceted view of all the mission critical physical systems
of the data centre. This new offering empowers data centre managers by giving
them access to all the data and tools they need to operate data centers that
are more reliable, efficient, productive, safe and green.
“Data centre environments traditionally rely on siloed
management tools that require the knowledge and experience of numerous IT and
facility professionals leveraging specialised management dashboards to obtain
the information they need,” he said.
Brown also said that with StruxureWare for Data Centers, Schneider
Electric is providing a toolset from which the data centre manager could access
and manage across the domains of the IT room, building electrical power and
power quality, facility and data centre cooling and physical security.
“This management software suite delivers comprehensive,
accurate real time data enabling them to take action based on the complete
picture of the data centre,” he said.
Further, he explained that the StruxureWare for Data Centers
management software suite would offer a variety of software tools to improve
both the monitoring and the operational aspects of comprehensive data centre
management.
He outlined some of these tools include the StruxureWare for
Data Centers: Monitoring Suite and Operations Suite.
On the monitoring suite, he said, it would offer a series of
core and advanced options for real-time visualisation, notification and
reporting of the physical facility and data centre systems for electrical
power, cooling, security and IT infrastructure elements.
The monitoring suite, he pointed out further consist of
StruxureWare Central which is formerly InfraStruXure Central; A fundamental,
vendor-neutral software system that provides a unified view and analysis of
complex IT physical infrastructure that communicates with building, power,
enterprise and network management systems to ensure quality, and increase both
energy and cost efficiencies.
“The new StruxureWare Central for Blackberry and iPhone apps
provide data centre managers with the same active alarms, alarm history, device
groups and current sensor values found in the StruxureWare Central desktop user
interface without being tied to a computer screen,” he said among others.
While the StruxureWare for Data Centers: Operations Suite
entails a second generation DCIM framework enabling customers to gain control
of their day-to-day operations where capacity limitations, frequent changes and
availability are daily challenges for data centre managers.
StruxureWare Operations, he said, is enterprise DCIM
framework providing a scalable and fault tolerant solution encompassing all
aspects of modern data centre management, ranging from asset and capacity
control over dashboards to smart phone integration.
“The framework provides the ability to forecast future
budgets for expanding and consolidating data centre operations as well as the
impact these changes would have on various aspects of the facility,” he said.
Emphasising that through transparency into data centre key
performance indicators (KPIs), customers are assisted in making informed
decisions about service level agreements and controlling operational costs.
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The advanced options for real-time visualisation, notification and reporting of the physical facility and data center is absolutely brilliant.
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