Under the agreement, CPI will market and sell Power IQ for eConnect globally. This joint solution will make it easy for data centre managers to monitor data centre power, report Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), bill for energy and manage power capacity. Power IQ for eConnect, a vendor agnostic data centre monitoring solution, provides a single pane of glass to make it easier to automatically manage the health and capacity of data centres via monitoring critical infrastructure devices including CPI's eConnect PDUs, as well as many other manufacturers’ CRACs, UPS, PDUs, RPPs, Meters, Branch Circuits, Racks, Rack PDUs and Environment Sensors.
“Chatsworth Products is pleased to offer our global customers a market proven tool that provides critical insight and reporting across the entire power infrastructure,” stated Ted Behrens, Executive Vice President of Global Engineering, Product Management & Marketing for CPI. “Combining the industry-leading features of eConnect with the robust, yet simplified monitoring capabilities of Power IQ, our customers will be able to optimise power efficiencies throughout the data centre,” he added.
Additionally, Power IQ supports CPI’s Secure Array™ IP Consolidation, which allows users to link up to 32 eConnect PDUs under a single IP address using standard Ethernet cables, reducing time and costs. Power IQ for eConnect software can be easily deployed as a standalone Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution for monitoring or with Sunbird’s dcTrack® DCIM software for Operations to provide full asset, configuration and change management.
“We are excited that CPI has chosen Sunbird Power IQ as their tool of choice for Data Centre Infrastructure Management,” said Herman Chan, President of Sunbird Software. “The combination of Sunbird’s Power IQ and CPI eConnect PDUs give global data centre operators proven solutions for monitoring and trending the enormous amount of data that can be gathered from intelligent rack PDUs and other data centre infrastructure.”
“The collaboration between Sunbird Software and Chatsworth Products provides customers a simple and proven path to increase the visibility into and management of their power and IT resources. Reducing downtime and increasing efficiency are top priorities for data centre and IT managers. Power IQ for eConnect complements CPI’s eConnect rack-mount PDUs by adding intelligence and analytics to the physical infrastructure, creating a smarter data centre environment that has the ability to deliver substantial cost savings while improving the delivery of critical business applications,” said Jennifer Cooke, Research Director, IDC.
