Software development company Optimum Path Systems and active IT
asset management and environmental monitoring solutions specialist RF
Code announced the integration of Visual Data Center Enterprise Edition
(VDC) and RF Code’s wire-free, sensor-based environmental monitoring
solutions. The integrated solution helps enable data center managers
and facility managers to improve visibility and control of the
environmental layer within the data center, including real time
three-dimensional thermal imaging of the facility.
The companies said the combined solution would allow users to see a
facility layout with real time power consumption, temperature, humidity
and thermal image data, which could lead to greater awareness of
operating conditions for the environment and specific devices. Optimum
and RF Code argue this awareness enables centralized planning and
decision making related to overall power and cooling capacity,
performance management and alarm/notification processing for both IT
and facility devices in the data center.
Visual Data Center (VDC) Enterprise Edition is a data center monitoring
and operations management tool designed to monitor, centralize,
normalize and display data from IT and facility equipment and/or
existing monitoring systems like RF Code’s wire-free monitoring
solution. With VDC, critical IT and facility performance data can be
benchmarked and transformed into usable performance metrics and key
performance indicators (KPIs) to support the drive for operational
efficiency.
“We feel strongly that the combination of the Visual Data Center
platform and the RF Code wire-free technology provides a seamless
solution for data center managers to monitor and manage their data
center environmental data,” said Steven Webel, chief operating officer
of Optimum. “The openness and flexibility of the respective products
has allowed for an easy technical integration. We look forward to
working with RF Code on other asset monitoring initiatives as part of
our ongoing partnership.”
RF Code’s active RFID-based wire-free environmental monitoring
technology provides information about temperature, humidity, leak
detection, dry contact and door status. This is designed to give
customers real-time information needed to better manage the
environmental factors that influence data center assets, including
power and cooling.
Chris Gaskins, vice president of product development for RF Code,
called Optimum Path an ideal technology integration partner. “Their
market-proven Visual Data Center platform is an example of an
innovative company making maximum use of our technology to provide
powerful benefits for customers,” he said. By adding environmental
monitoring data to Visual Data Center, the integrated solution gives
data center and facilities professional a very powerful, easy- to-use
tool for monitoring and managing their power and cooling.”
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