Schneider Electric’s StruxureWare™ Data Center Operation v8.0 Extends Asset Visibility Across Different Users

Schneider Electric’s
StruxureWare™ Data Center Operation v8.0 Extends Asset Visibility Across
Different Users

Latest Schneider
Electric DCIM suite bridges the gap between facilities and IT, enhances
capabilities for colocation providers

Singapore – June
16, 2016 –
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management and automation,
today introduced StruxureWare Data Center Operation v8.0, an enhancement to
Schneider Electric’s 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 colocation 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.

“Data center managers
– across enterprises and colocated 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,” said Miachael Kurniawan, Vice
President Schneider Electric Singapore, IT Business. “Schneider
Electric’s StuxureWare 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.”

Building on already
existing features of StruxureWare Data Center Operation that simplify data
center management, new capabilities in v8.0 include:

·  Web Client: allows user
visibility into data center assets, power usage and power capacity via any
modern web browser. This lowers maintenance costs and empowers managers to make
better and more informed real-time decisions.

·  Tenant Portal: expands on Schneider
Electric’s commitment to colocators and their customers by enabling colocation
providers to offer additional services on the basis of their DCIM solution,
including management of individual tenant services. The portal provides tenants
with an instant overview of their hosted data center solution, including insight
into the rooms, cages and racks, reserved capacity, measured power and rack
temperature. Tenants also have access to a KPI dashboard. Through the portal,
tenants can view their assets without direct access to the colocator’s local
network. The colocation provider can, with a single mouse click, enable or
disable the tenant portal access for each individual tenant, and decide what
information is shared.

·  Direct Current Capacity
Planning and Risk Management: Schneider Electric is
the first and only DCIM vendor to offer direct current capacity planning and
risk management as well as the ability to support a mixed power infrastructure
(both AC and DC). This enables data center managers to model DC-powered devices
within their data center, allowing them to more intelligently and accurately
plan capacity and assess risk for the DC power path.

·  Predicted Power: provides rack
and breaker level capacity planning and the potential to unlock stranded
capacity as estimated load values are automatically derived from actual power
measurements.

StruxureWare Data Center
Operation v8.0 will be available in June through Schneider Electric and its
partners. StruxureWare for Data Centers 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. From IT assets to racks, rows, rooms and buildings,
StruxureWare for Data Centers delivers the right information to the right users
at the right time. For more information on Schneider
Electric’s complete line of DCIM solutions, visit the Schneider
Electric website.