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EnergyCenter Version 2.0 Released By Viridity Software
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Some of the new EnergyCenter v2.0 enhancements include: User Defined Asset Grouping: Ability to group or filter assets based on application, owner and/or contact; VMware Virtual Guest Power Analysis: Monitoring and power consumption analysis of virtual guests; Heat Mapping: Graphical overlay reports of top power consumers, underutilized servers and BTU output visualizes actionable information; Extended Data Center Genome Database (GxDB): Database extended with thousands of additional measured server power profiles, as well as storage and switch specifications; Advanced Auto Alert: Ability to assign power and utilization thresholds and be auto-notified when thresholds are exceeded; and Enhanced Import/Export: Import/export asset information
Based on a Gartner (News 
- Alert) report entitled, "DCIM: Going Beyond IT," David Cappuccio, Research Vice President and author, stated that, "Monitoring energy consumption and equipment performance has been performed for many years, but almost exclusively on the facilities side of the business, and rarely on IT equipment. Building management systems monitor security, power, lighting and all facets of the day-to-day operations of the building itself, while operations technologies have been used to manage the physical equipment needed to run the business. IT equipment, on the other hand, was rarely monitored for energy consumption, but rather for performance and availability. CIOs were chartered with keeping the systems running, often at more than 99.9% availability levels; however, little attention was paid to the physical infrastructure supporting the systems and how efficiently it was running."
EnergyCenter v2.0 has been released with key product enhancements that will help the data center, IT and/or facilities manager to cost effectively and accurately plan for and execute expansion, consolidation, virtualization, and/or cloud initiatives. The software can be deployed as a direct, embedded, or modular DCIM solution.
In a release, Arun Oberoi, Viridity President and CEO, said, "We are excited about our customer driven innovation agenda and v2.0, with Viridity's signature ease of use, is packed with rich new features that further enhance our customer's advantage in data center capacity, asset and energy management. It is the only product on the market today that is deployable within minutes, giving rapid and continuous savings on energy costs while improving data center resilience and agility to respond to business service needs."
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