Issue 6, Oct/Nov 2009
ADVERTISING FEATURE OSISOFT
Microsoft Chooses PI System® to Monitor Critical Facilities Microsoft Technology Centers and Enterprise Engineering Center
The Microsoft Technology Centers (MTCs) and Microsoft’s Enterprise Engineering Center (EEC) have chosen the OSIsoft® PI System® to monitor and analyze performance of the MTC’s and EEC’s critical facilities, including power, mechanical, and IT. OSIsoft (
www.osisoft.com) is provider of the PI System, the industry standard enterprise infrastructure for management of time-series data and events.
The 18 MTCs provide customers with experts and resources to envision, plan, build, deploy, operate and optimize secure customized computing solutions based on Microsoft and partner technologies.
Today, OSIsoft and Microsoft empower enterprise manufacturers and utilities to gain a competitive advantage by presenting users with dynamic operational, business, and energy data they can use to make better-informed decisions while driving excellence across the value chain. With the MTC and EEC, OSIsoft and Microsoft can further drive end customer value with their critical facilities.
“We are pleased to support Microsoft Technology Centers and its customers,” said John O’Shea, OSIsoft Senior Vice President. “Adoption of OSIsoft’s PI System infrastructure will help Microsoft increase efficiency and reduce costs across the MTC network to support their sustainability and environmental goals. Together, we can take these ’lessons learned’ to our joint customers for their benefit. OSIsoft plans to use the Microsoft MTCs as part of our joint sales and business development engagements with Microsoft and customers.”
“Microsoft and OSIsoft have a joint commitment to sustainable IT,” commented Michael Valletta, Technical Director, MTC New York. “In meeting this commitment, Microsoft has expanded its use of the PI System by our Global Foundation Services (GFS) unit and the Microsoft Enterprise Engineering Center (EEC) in Redmond, WA, to include the global MTCs. This will enable our customers and visitors to see our joint technology for energy and environmental visualization at work, while we continue to reduce energy use at these facilities.”
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The EEC is a unique facility where customers, partners and Microsoft’s product development organization work together to validate today’s latest enterprise solutions, increase interoperability and discuss solutions to meet the market’s rapidly increasing demands.
“The very large scale infrastructure and mission-critical nature of the monitoring required by the Microsoft EEC represents the kind of challenges which the PI System is designed to meet as a matter of routine,” noted John O’Shea, senior vice president of Sales and Business Development for OSIsoft. “OSIsoft is dedicated to strengthening our ongoing partnership with Microsoft—recently recognized by our being named the Microsoft Global Industry ISV Partner as well as the Office Business Application Partner of the Year—for the benefit of our customers; so we’re pleased to have this further validation and recognition of how Microsoft values the unique capabilities of PI.”
Microsoft Technology Centers are located in the United States in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Irvine, New York City, Reston, and Silicon Valley, and internationally in Bangalore, Beijing, Cologne, Dubai, Dublin, Edinburgh, Munich, Paris, Taipei, and Thames Valley. Microsoft’s Enterprise Engineering Center is Located Redmond, Washington.
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Both the EEC and MTC network will use the PI Infrastructure to collect, monitor and analyze facilities and IT operations performance data. The PI System’s ability to aggregate, analyze, and visualize all types of operational data in one archive will provide staff new capabilities to manage their data centers, create additional customer value, and help the facilities meet their corporate Sustainable IT goals.
About OSIsoft OSIsoft (
www.osisoft.com) delivers the PI System, the industry standard in enterprise infrastructure, for management of time series data and events. A global base of more than 15,000 installations across manufacturing, energy, utilities, life sciences, data centers and critical facilities, and process industries relies upon the OSIsoft PI System to safeguard data and deliver enterprise-wide visibility into operational and business data in order to manage assets, mitigate risks, improve processes, drive innovation, make business decisions in real time, as well as identify competitive business and market opportunities.
Founded in 1980, OSIsoft, Inc. is headquartered in San Leandro, Calif., with operations worldwide and is privately held.
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