Schneider Electric announces EcoStruxure IT, the first Data Center Management as a Service architecture.

EcoStruxure IT revolutionizes DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) by delivering a cloud-based architecture purpose-built for hybrid IT and data centre environments.   The vendor-agnostic architecture delivers  proactive insights on critical assets that impact the health and availability of an IT environment with the ability to deliver actionable real-time recommendations to optimise infrastructure performance and mitigate risk.

EcoStruxure IT provides global visibility across the hybrid ecosystem – from anywhere – with one tap access right from a smartphone. Not limited to certain vendor solutions, the DCIM collects data from and allows monitoring of all devices. Users can gain insights to potential risks based on global benchmarks and analytics in the data lake.

Businesses can employ a subscription model based on their size, environment and usage. EcoStruxure IT also provides 24/7 remote monitoring with the Schneider Electric Service Bureau. In the event of an incident, the Service Bureau helps troubleshoot and ultimately reduces mean time to repair

“The growing complexity and diversity of critical data center environments coupled with reduced budget and staff have led to a management challenge for data center professionals. The first step in overcoming this challenge is through a cloud-first management strategy. EcoStruxure IT provides global access and insights to data center environments from anywhere, at any time on any device,” said Dave Johnson, Executive Vice President, IT Division, Schneider Electric.  “Bringing this level of visibility and access to our customers will enable them to benchmark their entire IT ecosystem while providing trend analysis, intelligent maintenance and more, all while reducing risks and increasing efficiency.”

EcoStruxure IT is the latest addition to Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure, its IoT-enabled, plug-and-play, open architecture, which delivers end-to-end solutions in six domains of expertise – Power, IT, Building, Machine, Plant and Grid – for four end markets, Building, Data Center, Industry and Infrastructure.

Rolling out to select geographies over the remainder of 2017 and into 2018, highlights of EcoStruxure IT include:

• EcoStruxure IT Expert – Expert delivers visibility across the hybrid environment from anywhere with one tap access direct from any computer or smart phone with the Mobile Insights application. Data center and IT managers can benchmark performance against their own system or those across the industry for trend analysis, maintenance or failure prediction, efficiency comparisons and other measures.
• EcoStruxure IT Advisor – Advisor addresses the need for greater system optimisation and inventory management for enterprise and colocation users. This enables superior control, planning and prediction across all site locations – on and off premises.  Failing equipment can be located and addressed easily, reducing time to repair, and can be supported by Schneider Electric’s 24/7 remote monitoring Service Bureau.

As a part of EcoStruxure IT, Schneider Electric continues to offer StruxureWare for Data Centers, a self-contained on-premises monitoring and operations management solution, suitable for data center and IT deployments of all size and scale.  Additionally, Schneider Electric offers a simplified process and tool for StruxureWare customers interested in migrating to the new EcoStruxure IT architecture.