There’s no doubt that Schneider Electric (News - Alert) has made a big name for itself—after all it has over 170 years of experience in energy management. And after almost two centuries in business, Schneider Electric has certainly morphed from an industry-leading iron and steel provider to a cutting-edge solution provider that keeps your energy needs top of mind.  

Most recently, the company has been spreading the word about its comprehensive data center lifecycle solutions—a lifecycle that offers answers to any of your infrastructure questions with comprehensive solutions. Schneider Electric always puts the customers’ needs first by leveraging a holistic consultative process that allows the company to build a robust data center strategy to address critical business needs.

“Our software management system is universal for all vendors,” Chris Mote, channel development manager for Schneider Electric told TMCnet at the NY Tech Summit yesterday. “We a have a repository to review all devices and to provide tools to manage and oversee change. We can tell you the best racks for power and cooling and create a work order for a prospective client, which is a huge differentiator for us.”

Whether you are looking to improve the efficiency of an existing data center, add high density racks in a low density data center, start constructing a new center or add power and cooling for additional IT equipment, Schneider Electric has you covered.

That’s because the company offers simple, stand-alone or fully integrated solutions to turn any room into a “reliable, available, business-wise and future driven data center,” according to company officials. Specifically, the industry leader offers a complete DCIM solution that is vendor agnostic, designed to optimize the infrastructure of your data center.

Introduced over five years ago, the Schneider Electric data center solutions “automate mundane IT functions,” according to Mote.

“Our solution is scalable and a la carte,” he said. “Tell us how many devices you want to monitor and we will give you the solution. We monitor, give alerts, create infrastructure efficiencies and create data center accessibility.” 

With such a rich heritage to back it up, Schneider Electric continues to maintain its competitive edge in the data center space is through its R&D team—a group that keeps its fingers on the pulse when it comes to burgeoning IT trends. According to Mote, the team monitors rising IT trends and custom builds solutions based on what is observed in the IT world.

“We come up with solutions to rack it, power it and cool it,” he explained.

A trend that Schneider Electric is particularly excited to dip its hand in is virtualization. That is because the company is looking to debunk the biggest myth out there that states that with virtualization you reduce your footprint and enjoy efficiency. While you do reduce your footprint, new challenges present themselves such as the fact that the data center environment gets exceedingly denser.

To combat this obstacle, Schneider Electric offers in-row cooling which prevents hot air recirculation while improving cooling predictability and allowing for a pay as you grow environment. The benefits of row-based cooling are vast from improved efficiency to active response controls to improved operational efficiency of 30 to 50 percent over traditional data center cooling approaches to increased flexibility.

“We monitor and make sure that if a rack reaches a certain density we can cool it,” Mote said.

This week, the data center leader headed to Verona, N.Y., for the NY Tech Summit, a business-to-business exhibition and educational technology conference hosted by CXtec and Teracai. A partner of both companies, Schneider Electric attended the June 20-21 event to support its partners and to demo its product portfolio which includes energy efficient cooling and DCIM software.

So what’s the message Schneider Electric hopes to have spread to trade show participants the last two days?

“The story of 2013 is that we are very focused on DCIM software and building full data center solutions,” Mote said. “We are also very focused on the IT trends and energy efficiency. After the financial crisis people want better solutions and they want ways to spend less money and save money on energy bills. That’s where we come in.”

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