Schneider Electric has introduced StruxureWare for Data Centres, a management software suite designed to address all aspects of the data centre physical infrastructure needed to maximise availability and efficiency. The product combines Schneider Electric’s Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and Data Centre Facility Management (DCFM) software tools to provide data gathering, monitoring, 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 managers by giving them access to all the data and tools they need to operate a more reliable, efficient and productive facility.
“Data centre environments traditionally rely on isolated management tools that require the knowledge and experience of numerous IT and facility professionals leveraging specialised management dashboards to obtain the information they need,” says Kevin Brown, vice president, data centre global offer and strategy, Schneider Electric. “With StruxureWare for Data Centres, Schneider Electric is providing a toolset from which the data centre manager can access and manage across the domains of the IT room. This management software suite delivers comprehensive, accurate real-time data enabling action to be taken based on the complete picture of the data centre.”
StruxureWare monitoring suite
The StruxureWare for Data Centres monitoring suite offers a series of core and advanced options for real-time visualisation, notification and reporting of the physical facility and data centre systems.
* StruxureWare 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 energy efficiency. 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.
* StruxureWare Power and StruxureWare Cooling: these advanced options build on Schneider Electric’s existing power monitoring and cooling automation offerings by adapting to the unique conditions within a data centre.
StruxureWare operations suite
StruxureWare Operations is an 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 smartphone 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. Through transparency into data centre key performance indicators (KPIs), customers are assisted in making informed decisions about service level agreements and controlling operational costs.
StruxureWare for Data Centres provides users with multiple options to create and share a variety of management dashboards. These range from very detailed, domain specific dashboards for electrical power and cooling to higher level perspectives relevant to overall data centre and single site energy management. Additionally, the dashboards offer multisite options to support comparisons and corporate energy governance activities.
For more information contact Jacqui Gradwell, Schneider Electric SA, +27 (0)11 254 6400, jacqui.gradwell@schneider-electric.com, www.schneider-electric.co.za
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