Emerson Network Power Launches Aperture Integrated Resource Manager
IT News Online Staff
2010-03-09
Emerson Network Power, a unit of Emerson enabling Business-Critical Continuity, has announced Aperture Integrated Resource Manager, a data center performance optimization solution for extending the life of existing infrastructure resources and improving overall efficiency in the data center.
The company said Aperture Integrated Resource Manager can deliver cost savings in the millions of dollars by enabling organizations to delay new data center builds, increase rack densities, better use existing resources and improve staff efficiency.
"Our customers have told us that in the wake of the recent downturn, there is a new paradigm for efficiently managing data centers," said Thomas Waun, president of Emerson Network Power's Aperture business. "Improving overall efficiency is the new imperative in business and in the data center, and Aperture Integrated Resource Manager is a visionary solution that will provide significant cost savings through holistic management of energy consumption, capital resources and process efficiency."
"This improved overall operational efficiency will enable organizations to save millions of dollars by extending the life of their data centers by months or, in some cases, years," added Waun.
Aperture Integrated Resource Manager's advanced management and analysis tools also enable organizations to:
- Aggregate real-time data from dozens of infrastructure monitoring and building management systems into a single presentation to gain comprehensive insight into data center operations.
- Delay data center builds by fitting more equipment into existing racks and safely deploying higher rack densities to take advantage of energy savings associated with high density architectures.
- Set the algorithms for analyzing and applying monitored data into business intelligence for use in data center planning and meeting service levels in their organization.
- Use power and cooling resources closer to their full capacities without threatening availability, fully leveraging existing assets and delaying capital expenditures.
- Significantly reduce the manual effort of collecting, aggregating and reporting real time data from disparate systems, improving staff efficiency, saving time and money.
"We are entering an era in which real-time, intelligent monitoring and resource management is a fundamental part of the data center manager's arsenal to continually improve efficiencies and performance, especially regarding energy consumption," said David Cappuccio, vice president and chief of research, Gartner. "An emerging market in data center management is focusing on [physical resource] infrastructure management, which can be viewed as a combination of traditional asset management tracking, performance management and energy and workload management. This is opening a new facet in IT managers' requirement to be aware of what their assets are doing, and of how that work is being accomplished in conjunction with the IT and facilities infrastructures."
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