Latest Schneider Electric DCIM suite bridges the gap between facilities and IT

Schneider Electric has introduced StruxureWare Data Center Operation v8.0, an enhancement to Schneider Electric’s StruxureWare for Data Centers, Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) suite.

Thursday, 5th May 2016 Posted 8 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Data Center Operation v8.0 includes new functionalities that enable a higher level of asset visibility for key data centre stakeholders, including tenants in colocation environments, and across both IT and facilities. This empowers businesses to prosper by managing their data centres across multiple domains, providing actionable intelligence for an ideal balance of high availability and peak efficiency throughout the entire data center life cycle.

“Data centre managers – across enterprises and colocated facilities – are facing a growing number of challenges as they look to keep up with the pace of business, including industry-wide shifts in capacity and performance needs, in an increasingly competitive market,” said Soeren Brogaard Jensen, vice president, Solution Software, IT Business, Schneider Electric. “Schneider Electric’s StuxureWare Data Center Operation v8.0 provides the asset visibility, capacity planning capabilities and risk management functionality data centre users need to optimise the performance and efficiency of their system while also enabling business growth through new services offers for clients.”

Building on already existing features of StruxureWare Data Center Operation that simplify data centre management, new capabilities in v8.0 include:

· Web Client: allows user visibility into data centre assets, power usage and power capacity via any modern web browser. This lowers maintenance costs and empowers managers to make better and more informed real-time decisions.

· Tenant Portal: expands on Schneider Electric’s commitment to colocators and their customers by enabling colocation providers to offer additional services on the basis of their DCIM solution, including management of individual tenant services. The portal provides tenants with an instant overview of their hosted data center solution, including insight into the rooms, cages and racks, reserved capacity, measured power and rack temperature. Tenants also have access to a KPI dashboard. Through the portal, tenants can view their assets without direct access to the colocator’s local network.

The colocation provider can, with a single mouse click, enable or disable the tenant portal access for each individual tenant, and decide what information is shared.

· Direct Current Capacity Planning and Risk Management: Schneider Electric is the first and only DCIM vendor to offer direct current capacity planning and risk management as well as the ability to support a mixed power infrastructure (both AC and DC). This enables data centre managers to model DC-powered devices within their data center, allowing them to more intelligently and accurately plan capacity and assess risk for the DC power path.

· Predicted Power: provides rack and breaker level capacity planning and the potential to unlock stranded capacity as estimated load values are automatically derived from actual power measurements.

StruxureWare Data Center Operation v8.0 will be available in June through Schneider Electric and its partners. StruxureWare for Data Centers management software suite is designed to collect and manage data about a data centre’s assets, resource use and operation status throughout the data centre lifecycle. This information is then distributed, integrated, and applied in ways that help managers optimise the data centre’s performance and meet IT, business and service-oriented goals.