Schneider Electric Brings Big Data and IoT to Data Centers with EcoStruxure™ IT

EcoStruxure IT, the next generation cloud-based Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM), helps customers optimize infrastructure performance and mitigate risk by:

- Providing visibility across the entire data center ecosystem, in the cloud and at the edge

- Delivering insights with data-driven recommendations to improve availability

- Enabling third party integrations in an IoT-enabled open architecture and platform

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Schneider Electric

Sep 26, 2017, 09:00 ET

HONG KONG, Sept. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Schneider Electric, the global specialist in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, today announced EcoStruxure IT, the first Data Center Management as a Service architecture.

EcoStruxure IT revolutionizes DCIM by delivering a cloud-based architecture purpose-built for hybrid IT and data center environments. The vendor-agnostic architecture delivers a new standard for proactive insights on critical assets that impact the health and availability of an IT environment with the ability to deliver actionable real-time recommendations to optimize infrastructure performance and mitigate risk.

Key benefits include:

Global visibility across the hybrid ecosystem—from anywhere—with one tap access right from a smartphone
Device information, smart alarms and monitoring through an open system collecting data from all devices, regardless of vendor
Foresight into potential risks by leveraging global benchmarks and analytics in the EcoStruxure data lake
Ease of deployment through a convenient subscription model for any size environment
24/7 remote monitoring with the Schneider Electric Service Bureau; in the event of an incident, the Service Bureau helps troubleshoot and ultimately reduces mean time to repair

"The growing complexity and diversity of critical data center environments coupled with reduced budget and staff have led to a management challenge for data center professionals. The first step in overcoming this challenge is through a cloud-first management strategy. EcoStruxure IT provides global access and insights to data center environments from anywhere, at any time, on any device," said Dave Johnson, Executive Vice President, IT Division, Schneider Electric. "Bringing this level of visibility and access to our customers will enable them to benchmark their entire IT ecosystem while providing trend analysis, intelligent maintenance and more, all while reducing risks and increasing efficiency."

"DCIM is a critical component to software defined infrastructure," said Jennifer Cooke, Research Director, IDC. "With a cloud-based innovation such as EcoStruxure IT, clients experience a simpler and more streamlined deployment, increased visibility to assets on and off premises and enables stronger remote management of distributed environments."

EcoStruxure IT is the latest addition to Schneider Electric's EcoStruxure™, its IoT-enabled, plug-and-play open architecture, delivering end-to-end solutions across industry, infrastructure, data center and building. It brings together the company's industry-leading connected products and edge control with apps, analytics and services to turn data into actionable insights. EcoStruxure is driving digital transformation for Schneider Electric clients globally, enabling them to be competitive in today's digital economy.

Rolling out to select geographies over the remainder of 2017 and into 2018, highlights of EcoStruxure IT include:

EcoStruxure IT Expert: Expert delivers visibility across the hybrid environment from anywhere with one tap access direct from any computer or smart phone with the Mobile Insights application. Data center and IT managers can benchmark performance against their own system or those across the industry for trend analysis, maintenance or failure prediction, efficiency comparisons and other measures.
EcoStruxure IT Advisor: Advisor addresses the need for greater system optimization and inventory management for enterprise and colocation users. This enables superior control, planning and prediction across all site locations—on and off premises. Failing equipment can be located and addressed easily, reducing time to repair, and can be supported by Schneider Electric's 24/7 remote monitoring Service Bureau.

As a part of EcoStruxure IT, Schneider Electric continues to offer StruxureWare™ for Data Centers, a self-contained on-premises monitoring and operations management solution, suitable for data center and IT deployments of all size and scale. Additionally, Schneider Electric offers a simplified process and tool for StruxureWare customers interested in migrating to the new EcoStruxure IT architecture.

As part of the launch, EcoStruxure IT was piloted in the U.S., benchmarking IT environments with more than 500 customers, 1,000 data centers, 60,000 devices and 2 million sensors. Customer feedback on the results of their EcoStruxure IT implementations affirm the growing need for a cloud-based data center management solution.

"ViaWest is trusted to deliver hybrid IT infrastructure solutions spanning colocation, interconnection, cloud, managed solutions and professional services to more than 4,200 customers," said Daniel Harman, Building Automation Systems Engineer, Peak10 + ViaWest, Inc. "We chose Schneider Electric's vendor agnostic EcoStruxure IT for one platform to monitor all the different devices in our data centers via their Mobile Insights application, remote services for replacing escalation policies internally, and the overall direction of their innovation roadmap."

More information on the capabilities and availability of EcoStruxure IT can be found here.

About Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric is leading the Digital Transformation of Energy Management and Automation in Homes, Buildings, Data Centers, Infrastructure and Industries. With global presence in over 100 countries, Schneider is the undisputable leader in Power Management – Medium Voltage, Low Voltage and Secure Power, and in Automation Systems. We provide integrated efficiency solutions, combining energy, automation and software. In our global Ecosystem, we collaborate with the largest Partner, Integrator and Developer Community on our Open Platform to deliver real-time control and operational efficiency. We believe that great people and partners make Schneider a great company and that our commitment to Innovation, Diversity and Sustainability ensures that Life Is On everywhere, for everyone and at every moment.

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