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of higher electricity prices.”
According to 451 Group, companies will also be able to use data centre information generated by software tools for compliance and commercial purposes. Data about energy use will help data centres meet internally or externally set targets, track progress against metrics and, if it becomes necessary, meet reporting requirements. It is also likely that metered energy consumption data will increasingly be used to price data centre services, to report on or allocate carbon emissions credits, or to facilitate application chargeback.
APC’s InfraStruxure Management Software enables holistic management of the entire data centre ecosystem, integrating the management of the physical infrastructure supporting IT assets with enterprise management systems, building management systems and network management systems. Proactive data centre management is achieved through integrated software applications sharing a
centralised repository, enabling design, real-time monitoring, inventory management and planning through predictive simulation.
Instant overview
The APC InfraStruxure Management Software portfolio helps companies improve energy and cost efficiencies, manage physical capacities and support short- and long-term planning, forecasting, and budgeting. The toolset includes InfraStruxure Operations, which provides an instant overview of data centre operations, together with vendor- agnostic inventory management, a PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) calculator for daily information about energy use, real-time device alarms and a customisable view enableng data halls to be organised by region, country, campus, site, building and room.
“In the past, data centre managers have been sceptical about the need for complex, integrated software,” said
Lawrence. “But this is changing as the move to higher-density data centres and the opportunity to operate within a narrower technical envelope drive the need for more sophisticated monitoring and control systems. Clearly, the most effectively managed and eco-efficient data centres will be those where managers have up- to-date, detailed and meaningful information about their data centre’s applications, equipment, configurations, power use and environmental data.”
Nick Ewing, sales director and head of Comtec's data centre and infrastructure design team, commented: “A lot of companies have a presence all around Europe, and one of the beauties of InfraStruxure Central as a centralised management system is they can deploy a similar set of equipment – such as a rack with UPS and a PDU and a net box – and InfraStruxure Central picks up all that information. So if a company has a battery failure in France, for example, it can log in to InfraStruxure Central, find out what the details of the UPS are
and it will tell them the model, serial number, age of the battery and when it should replace it. So it is a very proactive and very easily reactive system for managing your infrastructure. It gives the customer a real complete 360° view of everything that's going on.”
Gavin Maxwell, operations, IT, facilities, SHEQ manager at RMD, concluded: “The actual management of data centres is increasingly going to become even more critical for IT managers than the actual physical infrastructure. The practice of being able to manage the data centre in a more consolidated way rather than relying on lots of different packages is certainly going to have a massive upturn over the next couple of years. And with APC putting a major focus on the software side we as a company wanted to get involved straight away. This is something that we have always had an interest in, and we feel that we are going to see a huge influx of enquiries from prospective and existing customers.”
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