Avocent Data Center Planner

Emerson Network Power presents the solution of the next generation for infrastructure management of data processing centers of Data Center Infrastructure Management)

The solution Avocent Data Center Planner (earlier known as Avocent Mergepoint Infrastructure Explorer) allows the companies to manage the centers of processing and data storage more effectively

Avocent Data Center Planner, upgraded version of the previous Avocent Mergepoint Infrastructure Explorer program, offers functions for management of a data processing center and allows to receive exact and complete data on arrangement of devices and the equipment, their current volume and its possible increase. Among new and advanced opportunities — the simplified interfaces and templates allowing to plan and carry out effectively changes in data processing centers. This technology is industry-leading and has no analogs in the market. It improves operational indicators in all organization.

Avocent Data Center Planner provides to managers of data processing centers the system of records about the physical equipment in DPC (its arrangement, volume, a possibility of adding of modules and connections and also network capabilities). These basic functions are a basis for other processes and solutions and allow to use effectively resources and to optimize infrastructure of a data processing center.

Despite special attention to cost management, ensuring efficiency and availability, the latest solution for infrastructure management of a data processing center of Emerson Network Power company allows IT users to improve energy saving level due to visualization of growth of a data processing center. The unique scale of opportunities of modules allows to learn precisely when and as changes will affect the capacity of modules. Managers of data processing centers can quickly learn the current and future capacity of the module.

Expanding geography of availability and width of solutions for infrastructure management of a data processing center of the company, Avocent Data Center Planner offers localization in the Japanese, Chinese, German, Russian and French languages.

Additional benefits of Avocent Data Center Planner:

• Planning. The interface with "drag and drop" technology and also an opportunity to browse data on plans and projects of different divisions of the organization on one screen that will allow to expect effectively the impact of changes before they occur is offered to users.

Visualization. The configured, user-friendly interface of the user updates graphic elements at installation, write-off or movement of the equipment in infrastructure. Among opportunities of modeling there is a volume library of characters of devices which contains all necessary data from the producer.

• Accounting. Access on demand to data of assets allows users to identify easily the assets used in production and moved, and the uniform repository allows to release resources and to improve management efficiency, eliminating need of carrying out complex audits and updating of a set of spreadsheets.