INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres
Schneider Electric
strengthens leadership in
data centre management
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chneider Electric, a leader in
Digital Transformation of energy
management and automation,
has announced the continued rollout of
EcoStruxure IT Expert, its cloud-based data
centre infrastructure management solution,
with its release in Europe. With IT Expert,
Schneider Electric brings secure, vendor-
agnostic, wherever-you-go monitoring
and visibility of all IoT-enabled physical
infrastructure assets.
As part of Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure
architecture, IT Expert operates with all
IoT-enabled physical infrastructure assets
like secure power and cooling – including
the new, cloud-enabled Smart-UPS with
APC SmartConnect. IT Expert addresses
the data centre industry’s need to simplify
how data centres, distributed IT and local
edge environments are managed. Providing
proactive recommendations and consolidated
performance and alarming data, IT Expert
can significantly reduce alarm noise and
improve overall site resiliency.
• Secure updates of mass configuration
and firmware in a more simple and
faster process
• Vendor-neutral data capture of
device information, smart alarms and
monitoring of all connected devices
through an open system
• Subscription model ensures the ease of
deployment and updating for any size IT
or data centre environment
• 24/7 remote monitoring options
through our partners with EcoStruxure
IT for Partners or through Schneider
Electric Service Bureau with EcoStruxure
Asset Advisor. The Service Bureau or
partner helps troubleshoot and dispatch
service teams, reducing meantime to
repair and improving system availability
and performance
IDC views the EcoStruxure family as a
transformative platform that changes
the core way that data centres are
monitored and managed,” said Jennifer
Cooke, Research Director for Data Centre
Trends and Strategies at IDC. To date,
1,400 customers are connected on the
EcoStruxure IT platform managing 140,000
assets. Each day, 300 million data points
are captured, helping to modernise how
customer data centres are being managed,
operated and maintained. n
“EcoStruxure IT Expert harnesses the data
generated from any environment – from
distributed IT to the data centres – and uses
it to deliver intelligent benchmarking and
increased visibility to all of your connected
devices,” said Kim Povlsen, Vice President
and General Manager of Digital Services and
Data Centre Software, Schneider Electric.
“In our increasingly cloud-based world,
IT Expert delivers a remote monitoring
service empowered with real-time data and
proactive recommendations to repair and
improve system availability.”
Key benefits of EcoStruxure IT and its
applications include:
• Global visibility across the hybrid
ecosystem regardless of location
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