 "Schneider Electric StruxureWare Enhancement Enables Holistic Mgmt Of DC Infra")
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, has introduced StruxureWare for Data Centers v2.0, an integrated suite of Datacentre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software engineered to manage datacentres across multiple domains, providing businesses with actionable intelligence for an ideal balance of high availability and peak efficiency throughout the entire datacentre lifecycle. Designed to integrate datacentre performance with business goals and provide new levels of insight to c-suite executives, updates to the solution include: the addition of specialised applications for enhanced monitoring and management support for facility managers, additional power capping capabilities for further control of power consumption at the server level for improved IT management, and a new StruxureWare Portal for increased visibility into business and datacentre key performance indicators (KPIs) with customisable views across the various company stakeholders.
“Datacentre environments traditionally rely on siloed IT and facility management tools that alienated the executive team and made it difficult to optimise physical infrastructure while balancing efficiency and financial demands,” said Soeren Brogaard Jensen, Vice President, Solution Software, Schneider Electric. “With StruxureWare for Data Centers v2.0, Schneider Electric is providing a holistic approach to managing the datacentre by integrating IT, facilities and now the executive suite through the use of DCIM, allowing businesses to make the right decisions based on shared data – helping them make the most of their energy.”
Bridging the gap between IT, facilities and the c-suite executive, StruxureWare for Data Centers v2.0 is an open, modular, fully scalable and integrated DCIM solution that breaks down the typically siloed information that often prevents a holistic and intelligent view of the mechanical, electrical and IT aspects of center operation.
Application programming interfaces (APIs) and EcoStruxure web services allow for data-sharing between applications and enhance data accuracy and availability. These components seamlessly integrate with third-party applications, other StruxureWare software suites and EcoStruxure physical infrastructure components, enabling businesses to manage their datacentres across multiple domains. Asset alignment functionality that complies with regulatory requirements delivers an audit system for monitoring and management and provides input into the financial management of the business. Service assurance capabilities help datacentre managers easily resolve issues related to system availability through cross-department integration and automated impact analysis.
The StruxureWare for Data Centers suite has been extended with several applications aimed at providing facility managers with in-depth support through building management systems, utility, power and power distribution monitoring and management, reinforcing the balance between IT and facilities, and enabling the business to make informed decisions based on shared data.
StruxureWare for Data Centers has also been strengthened on the IT side by enabling Datacentre Operators to further control power consumption at the server level through power capping capabilities provided through Intel DCM technology – resulting in reduced OpEx, optimised utilisation of existing servers and delayed equipment investment.
An end-to-end DCIM software suite, StruxureWare for Data Centers v2.0 enables IT and facility managers to monitor, operate, analyse and optimise the power, cooling, security and energy usage from building through IT systems – from floor, to cage, to rack, to server and virtual machine. The addition of StruxureWare Portal aggregates information from all applications across the StruxureWare framework for a customisable and easily-sharable single-screen view of a wide range of information, offering increased visibility into business and datacentre KPIs. The StruxureWare Portal facilitates communication with external resources, can easily be adapted to corporate branding guidelines and can be accessed via laptops, tablets and smartphones.
StruxureWare for Data Centers serves as one facet of Schneider Electric’s global StruxureWare initiative. The complete line of StruxureWare solutions are designed to provide an integrated software platform intended to simplify energy management and optimise energy usage in all types of buildings, datacentres and industrial facilities.