Emerson Aperture Capacity Manager Brochures and Data Sheets
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1. Infrastructure Management amp Monitoring for Business Critical Continuity Changing the way companies run their data centers The Aperture Suite e Aperture EMERSON Network Power OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE OF YOUR DATA CENTER WITHOUT COMPROMISING AVAILABILITY Reduce your costs 20 and maintain five nines uptime Sound familiar Data center managers today are under unprecedented internal and external pressures to improve their efficiency without compromising availability These competing demands and other problems like aging data center infrastructures and the management of heterogeneous equipment along with new technologies like high density operation and virtualization ratchet up the complexity of managing data centers Until recently little attention was paid to the physical infrastructure supporting the systems and how efficiently it was running Many companies have implemented IT Service Management ITSM solutions but most have stopped at the business service level and have not extended those capabilities and principles into the physical layer Now businesses realize that the most effectively managed data centers will be those with up to date detailed and meaningful information about the underlying configuration i e the foundation that supports the data center s operation Today more than 250 organizations around the world and leading Fortune 1000 companies including Fujitsu JPMor2. and control precision cooling power UPS and other critical equipment e Allows for quick equipment assessment and corrective action with real time monitoring and control e Offers many levels of graphic reporting for customized views of supported equipment e Tailors alarm management and reporting to meet site needs Aperture Integration Manager Models the entire physical environment to effectively manage relationships between IT and facilities assets e Interactive repository of every component including equipment space rack floor power cooling network storage connectivity e Data driven graphics including top down and elevation rack views e Detailed analysis inventory and planning reports to understand current resource usage of resources and plan efficiencies INTEGRATED INFORMATION Best practice processes for equipment installation moves and decommissions to improve efficiency and reduce time to market e Web based configurable work process platform e Integration with configuration repository to reduce risks associated with changes e Audit trail of all changes A Day in the Life with Aperture IT Executive Management Senior executives demonstrate the strategic value of IT with proactive forecasting aligned with business goals greater control over data center operations and continuous uptime e Real time and risk adjusted operational data facilitates accurate resource planning to re
3. automatically generated breaker schedules e Outage analysis with details of impact on equipment including business criticality and contact information A major barrier to improved energy efficiency is the difficulty of collecting data on the energy consumption of individual components of data centers and the lack of data collection on many data centers overall US Environmental Protection Agency Emerson Network Power The global leader in enabling Business Critical Continuity EmersonNetworkPower com Ac Power E Embedded Computing Infrastructure Management amp Monitoring M Precision Cooling Connectivity E Embedded Power Outside Plant IE Racks amp Integrated Cabinets Dc Power Industrial Power Power Switching amp Controls I Services Emerson Business Critical Continuity Emerson Network Power and Aperture are trademarks of Emerson Electric Co or one of its affiliated companies 2011 Emerson Electric Co 1211 APTSUITE BRO EN EMERSON CONSIDER IT SOLVED
4. duce capital expenditure and optimize resource efficiency e Common system of record for equipment in multiple data centers delivers comprehensive accurate information for planning and managing data center resources e Standardized processes provide greater predictability and control while increasing IT s ability to respond quickly to changing business conditions e Real time monitoring of all data center resources provides immediate insight to improve resource allocation energy efficiency usage projections and capacity planning Data Center Management Data center management gains increased credibility with reliable service delivered with a high degree of professionalism and standardization e Desktop access to accurate real time and unified information e High level dashboard for an intuitive snapshot that enables a quick assessment of infrastructure performance e Detailed visibility into actual capacities of physical and virtual assets with in depth reports on current state and future needs e Standard process for installing equipment to reduce errors and shorten installation time e Audit trail of everyone entering the data center Data Center Facilities Management Facilities management ensures data center uptime and forestalls outages with accurate insight into power loads e Power readings automatically gathered for each device and incorporated into the planning model e Single trusted system of record for
5. elped companies reduce time to provision servers from two months to two weeks save millions of dollars through reconciliation of assets and cut hundreds of hours per month off installation time and costs With Aperture your organization can e Optimize energy capital resource and process efficiency with risk adjusted values that provide insight into the actual resource load e More effectively rightsize the physical infrastructure and extend data center lifespan with a holistic view of the infrastructure Ce ee ee ee fer tf few we rr tirt fete es J CE a fe ti Ff F F F FFP FFF F F F F Pr PP et ee FFF a E Seth ee Siri eeeme Hui Tii 1i Maintain a single trusted source of information for the entire data center and its contents within a business service view Visually monitor all data centers through a single unified solution to eliminate the use of ad hoc tools and processes Automate and standardize data center processes to remove the human element and increase the delivery of predictable high quality service 17 LILILY LALA g PETU Fy Pere Perey Era rert ra Par g EFEFEF ETETETT are rE oe le T rr pa Pr ror lt p m m w S Proven Solutions for DCIM and Optimization Aperture Integrated Resource Manager PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION Aperture Capacity Manager Uses a network of microprocessor based control modules to monitor
6. esources across multiple data centers Aperture addresses five core data center management components so that organizations can enter at different points and evolve based on their current requirements operational maturity The solution includes applications for monitoring and control physical asset and resource management people and process management ITSM integration and performance optimization Organizations can now take control of and optimize an increasingly complex physical infrastructure including equipment space power cooling network and storage Designed for complex enterprise level data centers Aperture extends the discipline and principles of ITSM into the data center By creating an IT view of the physical infrastructure Aperture bridges the gap between IT and facilities to bring the management of space power and cooling within the ITSM framework INDIVIDUALS E MAIL AND MULTIPLE EXCEL MEETINGS SPREADSHEETS VARYING DEGREES OF COMPLETENESS DATABASES VENDOR VISIO AUTOCAD DEPENDENT DRAWINGS MONITORING Aperture saves us 480 hours per month on installation and migration tasks and 20 hours per month in auditing in one data center alone Our customers demand the best in data center management and planning Aperture enables us to meet their needs while having complete insight into and control over our environments Mark Scott Head of Customer Data Centers Fujitsu Services frre Aperture solutions have h
7. gan Chase and the National Institutes of Health have turned to Aperture solutions to help them optimize data center operations deliver better services at lower costs and reduce risk Aperture is the only enterprise data center infrastructure management solution with proven success in enabling organizations to deliver the highest levels of reliable efficient IT service that truly aligns with business objectives Data Center Infrastructure Management The complexity of the data center has far outstripped traditional Today only Aperture delivers all aspects of DCIM ina single methods for infrastructure management Unfortunately the solution Aperture enables an organization to holistically majority of data centers are still managed using ad hoc tools and manage and optimize data center operations by integrating processes to track individual pieces of equipment or resources information about equipment and the resources they use into a In the past these tools could suffice Change was slow and comprehensive view of the infrastructure Within the visual and operations static Today s data centers evolve rapidly The multi dimensional Aperture framework IT organizations use widespread adoption of virtualization and subsequent accurate real world information to manage enterprise data requirements for data centers to be agile have rendered centers so that they can more effectively deliver predictable traditional tools obsolete consistent se
8. rvices support green initiatives proactively Gartner Forrester 451 and other leading analysts recently noted manage capacity and optimize resource use the need for organizations to utilize holistic solutions that Ma naging the Data Center Ga p address issues of the modern data center BUILDING DATA CENTER INFRASTRUCTURE IT Data Center Infrastructure Management DCIM has emerged as MANAGEMENT MANAGEMENT a framework for holistically managing the physical IT resources It is effectively combining the building managemeant i e facilities and performance management i e IT domains According to David Cappuccio at Gartner Although it will not replace either DCIM will take facets of each and apply them to data center infrastructures eventually affecting everything from inventory and change management to capacity planning and carbon footprint reporting Before deploying Aperture we were using spreadsheets and data tables to record trends and enable predictive reporting This was inaccurate time consuming and prone to error By using Aperture we are able to centralize information in a single database which enables us to maintain accurate and reliable configuration information while enabling the better utilization of operational staff by freeing up valuable time Robert Innes global data center manager Elsevier Aperture fully supports DCIM with a suite of applications that creates a unified view of physical r
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