APC unveils an InfraStruXure suite

BANGALORE, INDIA:APC by Schneider Electric, an integrated critical power and cooling services provider, announced on Tuesday the launch of its APC InfraStruXure Central, capacity manager and change manager.

The suite consists of design, operations and monitoring capabilities providing comprehensive management of the datacenter physical infrastructure, said a press release.

The new version of APC’s InfraStruXure Central supports multi-vendor physical infrastructure equipment including a formal validation program to actively develop and publish support for non-APC equipment, it added.

“Power and cooling is the number one issue for datacenter managers today as they face huge challenges in predicting the impact from the ever growing number of installed systems in their new and aging datacenters. Our clients have a significant need to monitor and measure power usage within their data centers.” said Michelle Bailey, research vice president for IDC’s Datacenter Trends program.

Detailed information of all physical infrastructure devices can now be consolidated in this one monitoring application enabling quick assessment and intelligent decision-making on issues threatening IT system availability, the release added.

APC’s change manager application would provide inventory management and workflow tools to enable data center operators to map the IT and physical infrastructure equipment that is located within the data center.

When combined with Capacity Manager, these applications would provide data center operators the ability to perform predictive simulation and modeling of the physical infrastructure, evaluating future scenarios before they occur, the release said.