Energy management innovator Schneider Electric has introduced StruxureWare for Data Centers. It’s a management software suite designed to address all aspects of the data center physical infrastructure, especially those aspects affecting availability and efficiency.†
The new StruxureWare for Data Centers combines Schneider Electric’s market leading Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and Data Center Facility Management (DCFM) software tools to provide data gathering, monitoring and automation, and planning, and implementation functionalities. This enables an integrated and multifaceted view of all the mission-critical physical systems of the data center.
According to Schneider, StruxureWare for Data Centers “empowers data center 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 center environments traditionally rely on silo’d management tools that require the specialized knowledge and experience of numerous IT and facility professionals leveraging specialized management dashboards to obtain the information they need,” adds Kevin Brown, vice president of Schneider’s data center global offer and strategy. “With StruxureWare for Data Centers, Schneider Electric is providing a toolset from which the data center manager can access and manage across the domains of the IT room, building electrical power and power quality, facility and data center 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 center.”
The StruxureWare for Data Centers management software suite offers a variety of software tools aimed at improving the monitoring and the operational aspects of comprehensive data center management, including:
- Monitoring Suite — The StruxureWare for Data Centers Monitoring Suite will offer a series of core and advanced options for visualization, notification, and reporting of the physical facility and data center systems for electrical power, cooling, security and IT infrastructure elements.†The monitoring suite will include StruxureWare Central (a software system that provides a unified view and analysis of complex IT physical infrastructure that communicates with building, power, enterprise and network management systems), StruxureWare Power and StruxureWare Cooling , StruxureWare Power, and StruxureWare Cooling monitors.
- Operations Suite — StruxureWare Operations Suite is a second generation Data Center Infrastructure Management framework, enabling customers to gain control of their day-to-day operations where capacity limitations, frequent changes, and availability are daily challenges for data center managers.†
StruxureWare for Data Centers will provide 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 center and single site energy management.†Additionally, the dashboards offer multi-site options to support comparisons and corporate energy governance activities.
Available globally, the first offering available from the StruxureWare for Data Centers suite is StruxureWare Central v6.3 and the StruxureWare Central Mobile Application for iPhone and Blackberry, all available immediately.†Other components of the StruxureWare for Data Centers software suite will be announced throughout 2011, featuring continually evolving solutions to meet the needs of all data center and facility professionals.†All new offerings and updates within the StruxureWare for Data Centers portfolio continue to be compatible with existing components of the InfraStruxure Management Software portfolio.
