[June 26, 2011] Schneider Electric Releases StruxureWare for Data Centers Tweet Jun 27, 2011 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Schneider Electric, a specialist in energy management, introduced StruxureWare for Data Centers, a management software suite designed to address data center physical infrastructure. According to a release, StruxureWare for Data Centers combines Schneider Electric's Data Center Infrastructure Management and Data Center Facility Management software tools to provide data gathering, monitoring and automation, and planning and implementation functionalities enabling an integrated and multifaceted view of physical systems of the data center. "Data center environments traditionally rely on siloed management tools that require the specialized knowledge and experience of numerous IT and facility professionals leveraging specialized management dashboards to obtain the information they need," said Kevin Brown, Vice President, Data Center Global Offer and Strategy, Schneider Electric. "With StruxureWare for Data Centers, Schneider Electric is providing a toolset from which the data center manager can access and manage across the domains of the IT room, building electrical power and power quality, facility and data center cooling, and physical security. This management software suite delivers comprehensive, accurate real time data enabling them to take action based on the complete picture of the data center." The software suite includes: StruxureWare for Data Centers: Monitoring Suite The StruxureWare for Data Centers Monitoring Suite will offer a series of core and options for real-time visualization, notification and reporting of the physical facility and data center systems for electrical power, cooling, security and IT infrastructure elements. The monitoring suite will include: -StruxureWare Central (formerly InfraStruxure Central) - A fundamental, vendor-neutral software system that provides a unified view and analysis of complex IT physical infrastructure that communicates with building, power, enterprise and network management systems to ensure quality, and increase both energy and cost efficiencies. The new StruxureWare Central for Blackberry and iPhone apps provides data center managers with the same active alarms, alarm history, device groups and current sensor values found in the StruxureWare Central desktop user interface without being tied to a computer screen. -StruxureWare Power and StruxureWare Cooling - These options build on Schneider Electric's existing power monitoring (formerly ION Enterprise) and cooling automation (formerly Continuum) offers by adapting these offers to the specific applications within data centers. -StruxureWare Power monitors the facility and data center electrical infrastructure from the Utility feed through to rack power. Core functions of this system include the ability to profile power and energy consumption and trends, characterize power quality events, and visually drill down from the overall view of the electrical network to the equipment level. -StruxureWare Cooling monitors and automates the fully integrated environmental control system for the core facility including the thermal energy plant with specialized monitoring of the data center chilled water sub-system, including cooling towers, chillers, pumps, and computer room and rack air handlers. Optional elements also include a focus on general access control, and surveillance. StruxureWare for Data Centers: Operations Suite StruxureWare Operations Suite is a second generation Data Center Infrastructure Management framework enabling customers to gain control of their day-to-day operations where capacity limitations, frequent changes and availability are daily challenges for data center managers. -StruxureWare Operations is an enterprise DCIM framework providing a scalable and fault tolerant solution encompassing all aspects of modern data center management, ranging from asset and capacity control over dashboards to smart phone integration. The framework provides the ability to forecast future budgets for expanding and consolidating data center operations as well as the impact these changes would have on various aspects of the facility. Through transparency into data center key performance indicators, customers are assisted in making informed decisions about service level agreements and controlling operational costs. StruxureWare for Data Centers will provide users with multiple options to create and share a variety of management dashboards. These range from very detailed, domain specific dashboards for electrical power and cooling to higher level perspectives relevant to overall data center and single site energy management. Additionally, the dashboards offer multi-site options to support comparisons and corporate energy governance activities. StruxureWare for Data Centers is available for demo at Schneider Electric's corporate headquarters in Rueil-Malmaison, France as well as the Schneider Electric Technology Center in St. Louis. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]