Schneider Electric introduces facility management software

SCHNEIDER Electric has introduced StruxureWare for Data Centres, a management software suite designed to address all aspects of the data centre physical infrastructure needed to maximise availability and efficiency.StruxureWare for Data Centres combines Schneider Electric's Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and Data Center Facility Management (DCFM) software tools to provide data gathering, monitoring and automation, and planning and implementation functionalities enabling an integrated and multifaceted view of all the mission critical physical systems of the data centre.This new offering empowers data centre managers by giving them access to all the data and tools they need to operate data centres that are more reliable, efficient, productive, safe and green.According to a statement Vice President, Data Centre Global Offer and Strategy, Schneider Electric, Kelvin Brown: 'Data centre environments traditionally rely on siloed management tools that require the knowledge and experience of numerous IT and facility professionals leveraging specialised management dashboards to obtain the information they need.'With StruxureWare for Data Centers, Schneider Electric is providing a toolset from which the data centre manager can access and manage across the domains of the IT room, building electrical power and power quality, facility and data centre 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 centre', he said.He stated that the StruxureWare for Data Centers management software suite will offer a variety of software tools to improve both the monitoring and the operational aspects of comprehensive data centre management, including: StruxureWare for Data Centers: Monitoring Suite.The StruxureWare for Data Centers Monitoring Suite will offer a series of core and advanced options for real-time visualisation, notification and reporting of the physical facility and data centre 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.
Click here to read full news..