Launches the latest enhancement to Schneider Electric DCIM suite; bridges the gap between facilities and IT, enhances capabilities for co-location providers
Schneider Electric has introduced StruxureWare Data Center Operation v8.0, an enhancement to its StruxureWare for Data Centers, Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) suite. Data Center Operation v8.0 includes new functionalities that enable a higher level of asset visibility for key data center stakeholders, including tenants in co-location environments, and across both IT and facilities. This empowers businesses to prosper by managing their data centers across multiple domains, providing actionable intelligence for an ideal balance of high availability and peak efficiency throughout the entire data center life cycle.
As per the release, building on already existing features of StruxureWare Data Center Operation that simplify data center management, new capabilities in v8.0 include Web Client, Tenant Portal, Direct Current Capacity Planning and Risk Management as well as the ability to support a mixed power infrastructure (both AC and DC).
StruxureWare Data Center Operation v8.0 will be available in June through Schneider Electric and its partners. StruxureWare for Data Center management software suite is designed to collect and manage data about a data center’s assets, resource use and operation status throughout the data center lifecycle. This information is then distributed, integrated, and applied in ways that help managers optimize the data center’s performance and meet IT, business and service oriented goals, the release said.
Soeren Brogaard Jensen, VP, Solution Software, IT Business, Schneider Electric said, “Data center managers – across enterprises and co-located 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. Schneider Electric’s StruxureWare Data Center Operation v8.0 provides the asset visibility; capacity planning capabilities and risk management functionality data center users need to optimize the performance and efficiency of their system while also enabling business growth through new services offers for clients.”
