Aperture, a leading global provider of software for managing the physical infrastructure of datacenters, has added real-time monitoring technology to its market-leading datacenter management system, Aperture VISTA. The new solution, Aperture VISTA Infrastructure Monitoring, provides datacenter management with an "IT View into the datacenter while monitoring and managing the status of the entire physical infrastructure in real-time.
The solution addresses a set of fundamental problems faced by data center management across IT and datacenter facilities functions. Aperture VISTA Infrastructure Monitoring provides the IT organization with the information needed to right-size infrastructure resources to meet business demands, proactively manage datacenter capacity and improve energy efficiency. By providing real-time information on power consumption, datacenters can reclaim over-provisioned resources and extend the life of datacenters.
The solution also improves energy efficiency through improved measurement accuracy. Aperture VISTA Infrastructure Monitoring provides real-time information down to the rack level, enabling organizations to determine key energy efficiency metrics such as the Energy Efficiency Ratio (EER) as defined by the EPA. With worldwide energy costs rising rapidly, datacenter management is on the lookout for any opportunity to improve energy efficiency.
Aperture VISTA Infrastructure Monitoring also alleviates the daunting challenge faced by datacenter management that currently relies on multiple management consoles for alerts and alarms. The solution provides an alternative, with a vendor-neutral, real-time, and single view of the data center infrastructure through a "single pane of glass. Correlated with the VISTA configuration repository, this provides the impact analysis required to determine the potential effect on the business of an alarm.
"Investing in a new datacenter can cost over one hundred million dollars, said Steve Yellen, VP of Product and Market Strategy for Aperture Technologies. "Organizations are striving to get the most out of their existing datacenters and accurately predict when they will need a new datacenter. That means knowing three to four years in advance of the requirement for an additional datacenter.