APC InfraStruXure

The range of the solutions APC by Schneider Electric includes the uninterruptible power supply units (UPSU), power distribution systems and precision conditioning, the rack systems, means of ensuring of physical security, the system of design and management and also engineering architecture of APC InfraStruXure® — the most complete hardware and software system for solving of tasks of power supply, conditioning and management in switching nodes, server.

In June, 2011 division of IT Business (APC by Schneider Electric) of Schneider Electric company, the world leader in the industry of solutions on power supply and cooling of the responsible systems, announces integration of software modules of APC InfraStruxure Central and HP Operations Manager allowing the specialists servicing DPCs to control the impact of changes of physical infrastructure on work of IT systems and business applications. Now specialists of IT and engineering departments will be able to monitor in real time the changes happening in power supply, cooling and a physical medium of DPCs using HP Operations Manager, reducing risks of emergence of failures, optimizing work and increasing energy efficiency of the systems of data processing centers. The module InfraStruxure Central integrated into HP Operations Manager will allow:

• Open an information access about work of key nodes of the equipment of different producers, including warnings of possible problems and historical information on deployment of server environment;
• Exercise comprehensive control of work of the engineering systems and the IT equipment and their influence at each other, giving access to important information on parameters of power supply and cooling;
• Optimize transparency, control and automation of systems necessary for work of IT and engineering service of any successful company.

"Integration of these software products will give to customers an opportunity to take advantage of the centralized control of APC InfraStruxure Central in combination with HP Operations Manager for the best management of complex IT infrastructures — Jim Simonelli, the senior vice president and the technical director of APC by Schneider Electric noted. — Both APC by Schneider Electiric, and HP aim to make computer centers of the customers more effective, providing end-to-end systems of management which help to improve work of business applications in their order".

"Integration of APC InfraStruxure Central and HP Operations Manager is excellent news to my company — Terrence Walsh, the director of IT planning, Consolidated Edison Company, New York told. — Having learned about integration, we understood at once that she will help to achieve the objectives on increase in reliability and consolidation of our systems. We with pleasure took part in pilot implementation of a software package and shared experience with it. Now we can manage engineering infrastructure, including electric power supply systems and coolings, not through several applications as earlier, and using the single interface. An opportunity to control all processes using a single platform allowed us to optimize work of the engineering systems and servers of our data processing center and to make it more effective".

An opportunity to obtain in real time information on a status and emergence of non-staff situations in work of the engineering systems of different producers is one of key for the specialists servicing DPCs. The software module of APC InfraStruxure Central completely conforms to these requirements, allowing to control work of engineering infrastructure within all company, including an electric power supply system, cooling, security and energy consumption. Such opportunities as notifications on failures, personal setup, automatic determination of devices and setup at once of several devices at the same time, allow to implement and use with ease InfraStruxure Central in DPC.