Emerson Network Power Releases Trellis Platform

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and a provider in maximising availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, has announced the global availability of the first four software applications in the Trellis platform. Working with the previously released Avocent Universal Management Gateway, the Trellis software applications deliver real-time infrastructure optimisation.

These efficiencies can be realised because, for the first time, datacentre managers have all the management capabilities they need in one solution and one location, eliminating duplicate processes and the need to link together disparate, proprietary systems before a complete picture of IT and facilities devices and performance can be gained.

Emerson Network Power’s expertise in all aspects of critical infrastructure makes it possible for the Trellis platform to operate intelligently – fully accounting for and building a communications bridge between IT and facilities equipment, processes and operations. Datacentre managers now have a solution that supports the way they work instead of having to manage around the information gaps between IT and facilities systems. By giving them real-time visibility into the entire datacentre’s performance, rather than segmented parts, the Trellis platform enables smarter, faster decisions that maximise datacentre availability, efficiency and capacity.

In addition, because the intelligence-gathering appliance and software applications share the underlying platform, the applications build on one another, allowing capabilities to be added rapidly to adapt to change and prepare for the future. This means investment in the Trellis platform will go farther than with any other DCIM solution currently available, and total cost of ownership will be lower.

Trellis software applications now available are:

Trellis Inventory Manager provides datacentre management with the foundation for an accurate and complete model of its datacentres globally, the knowledge of where devices and equipment are located, the relationship between these components, and what resources are being used by datacentre equipment.

Trellis Site Manager reports the health of the infrastructure including environmental conditions to datacentre personnel, enabling them to recognise and resolve conditions that impact infrastructure availability and system performance.

Trellis Change Planner works together with Trellis Inventory Manager to ensure that accurate and consistent information is utilised. Assures that installs, moves and decommissions of equipment are planned, tracked and communicated to team members in a consistent manner. This minimises the impact of changes on the quality of services delivered and streamlines operations.

Trellis Energy Insight calculates total datacentre energy consumption, electrical costs and power usage effectiveness (PUE)/datacentre infrastructure efficiency (DCiE) value. Having this information at their fingertips allows datacentre managers to understand how infrastructure changes impact energy efficiency and, subsequently, the bottom line.

This first release includes capabilities in four of the core components in the 451 Group’s DCIM Capability definition, providing datacentre operators with a strong DCIM foundation.

“The Trellis platform marks the beginning of a new decision making process that cuts through silos, letting datacentre professionals optimise every aspect of their critical infrastructure operations through a single pane solution,” said Pratik Chube, Country GM – Products and Marketing, Emerson Network Power, India. “It effectively puts an end to disjointed management of IT and facility infrastructure, resulting in unforeseen improvements in datacentre performance that makes it possible to achieve the high availability, operational efficiency and the agility to meet business demands.”