Partner Profile Now simplify server access in the data centre


How Schneider Electric and Intel are bridging the gap between IT and facilities


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The connection between facilities and IT — enabled by StruxureWare for Data Centers — is critical because these new workloads affect power, cooling, and connectivity, and have an overall impact on efficiency and capacity’. Jennifer Koppy,


research manager for


IDC’s Datacentre Trends & Strategies team


Now there’s a much simpler way to provide server access in the data centre, while improving energy efficiency in facilities, without the need for additional hardware. Introducing Server Access for StruxureWare Data Center Operation, the first-of-its-kind integrated software DCIM and server access solution that can help you reduce technology costs by up to 50%.


Server Access enables data centre managers to:


> Streamline the access, troubleshooting, and control of multiple assets and servers, remotely and throughout the server life cycle


> Securely and easily manage different types of IT assets and hardware across multiple vendor platforms using a single console


> Pinpoint physical server locations at all times to enhance power or cooling control


> Connect to operating systems via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Secure Shell (SSH), and Virtual Network Computing (VNC)


50%


Server Access for StruxureWare Data Center Operation can reduce technology costs by up to 50%


Key partnership creates blueprint for collaboration Leveraging Intel®


Optimise energy efficiency today with StruxureWare Data Center Operation.


with Schneider Electric broadens the use of our technology and will help data centres eliminate unnecessary hardware spend’.


Virtual Gateway technology,


Server Access for StruxureWare Data Center Operation combines DCIM and software KVM (keyboard video mouse) technology. This breakthrough integration eliminates the need for physical hardware and KVM switches in the data centre.


‘Virtual Gateway is an extension of Intel’s Data Centre Manager (DCM) software, and provides important technological advances for our middleware’, says Jeff Klaus, general manager of Intel Data Centre Solutions. ‘The joint effort


Schneider Electric is the first DCIM vendor to offer software-only server access capabilities. ‘We view Server Access as an important component to improving energy efficiency in data centres and facilities’, says Søren Brogaard Jensen, vice president of Enterprise Management and Software for Schneider Electric. ‘By partnering with Intel to provide an integrated software KVM and DCIM approach for managing the data centre, we’re continuing to bridge the gap between IT and facilities’.


Discover how you can save up to 50% in IT costs and optimise energy efficiency with Schneider Electric Server Access for StruxureWare Data Center Operation at www.schneider-electric.com


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