Energy management specialist Schneider Electric rolled out version 7.0 of its StruxureWare Operations software last month. The product is a data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software platform that integrates with Schneider Electric’s
The StruxureWare for Data Centers Suite is a combination of Schneider’s DCIM and its Data Center Facility Management (DCFM) software tools.††The complete suite is provides data gathering, monitoring, automation, and planning/implementation functionalities to enable an integrated and multifaceted view of all the data center’s mission-critical physical systems.
StruxureWare Operations 7.0 enables data center managers to gain complete visibility and control over their data center’s daily operations.†
“As challenges, like rising complexity, availability, and increasing energy costs, become a reality in today’s data center environments, customers struggle to find the correct set of tools to effectively operate and report on the various systems and functions of their data centers,” states Schneider in a press release submitted to Channel Pro-SMB.
StruxureWare Operations 7.0 is designed to perform such duties as alarming, data collection, planning, optimizing, and analytics, StruxureWare Operations 7.0 is able to provide reporting on any aspect of the data center physical infrastructure.†
“With the continuing evolution of DCIM and DCFM technologies and software suites like StruxureWare for Data Centers,” Schneider states in the press release, “IT professionals now have access to all the data and tools they need to operate data centers that are more reliable, efficient, productive, safe and green from a single software suite.”
Within StruxureWare Operations 7.0, two new modules provide options for creating customized reports.†StruxureWare Operations: Insight†is an advanced report designer that enables customization of reports to match business needs with data integrated from any third party database or web service.†
The†Insight†module includes of a wide array of plug-in templates and scripting options that enable customization specific to a customer’s data center.†The second module,†StruxureWare Operations: VIZOR,†provides key data center capacity parameters and utilization for power, cooling, space and network directly to Apple iPhone, iPad or Android-based smart phones.
Available globally, StruxureWare Operations 7.0 joins StruxureWare Central 6.3 as the first offerings available in the StruxureWare for Data Centers software suite.†Other components of the software suite will be announced throughout the coming months.
