FieldView announced a new release of its Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software at last week's DatacenterDynamics Converged conference in New York City.

Sev Onyshkevych, chief marketing officer at FieldView, said, in release 5.2, the company added more granularity in polling and alarming and compatibility with more protocols to enhance the system's plug-and-play capabilities. There are also more capacity-planning features and additional built-in reports.

“All of these are things that we do to some extent, and so these are really substantial enhancements, rather than first-time capabilities,” he said.

FieldView 5.2 now features adjustable polling rates per device or per category. The solution can also now do offline polling real-time alarming and SNMP alarming for IT and facilities control systems.

New plug-and-play protocols add more products by more vendors that FieldView can now configure automatically. The system now monitors more than 50 vendor systems directly.

Compared to the rest of the DCIM market, FiledView is much more facilities-centric than IT-centric. It focuses a lot on covering the entire power-distribution chain and environmental monitoring.

The solution monitors power starting at the utility feed, through generators, uniterruptible power supplies (UPS'), power distribution units (PDUs), computer room air conditioners (CRACs), chillers, diesel-fuel tanks and all the mechanical and electrical equipment in between. It provides a single view of everything happening with power and thermal conditions.

“We give you that kind of big picture of the big power,” Onyshkevych said. “Not just the little power that eventually makes its way down to the servers.”

While the solution does reach within the IT rack, it does not have as much of a focus on monitoring IT than most of FieldView's competition does. In many cases, the software coexists with more IT-centric solutions from vendors like Raritan or nlyte.

It also coexists with lower-level facilities-management solutions like building management systems.

FieldView generally goes after larger data centers, or “the high end of the market,” as Onyshekych put it, its sweet spot being 10 MW and higher. Genrally, this is the segment of the market that is growing the fastest.

Its customer roster includes some of the world's largest financial institutions and multi-tenant data center providers, as well as large IT companies and e-commerce and software firms.

While, as a private company, FieldView does not disclose its revenue, it was in the eight figures in 2012, Onyshkevych said. Its software now monitors more than 1.5 gigawatts of data center capacity total.