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January 26, 2012

Emerson Network Power Debuts the Next-Gen Avocent Data Center Planner

Emerson (News - Alert) Network Power unveiled the next-gen Avocent Data Center Planner software that can be employed for effective management of data center assets and physical infrastructure.

According to the company, the Data Center Planner is a visual infrastructure planning and management solution. It provides data center management with accurate and complete information about where devices and equipment are located, their current capacities and their growth. The latest version of the Avocent software is stated to be a component of Emerson Network Power’s (News - Alert) extensive portfolio of data center infrastructure management (DCIM) capabilities.

The Avocent Data Center Planner is the next phase of Emerson’s Avocent (News - Alert) MergePoint Infrastructure Explorer software and it can help one shift from a reactive to proactive maturity level. Once in place, users’ organization will gain tremendous advantages and be better able to achieve consolidation, virtualization and energy efficiency goals.

Emerson Network Power added that its software-based data center solutions include the Liebert SiteScan monitoring system, the Aperture data center management suite and, now, Avocent data center access and control, power management, data center planning, and branch and government solutions.

Officials with the company ascertained that the ad-hoc data center management tools that were effective in the past are increasingly difficult to maintain in today’s complex environment.

Some of the features and benefits of the Avocent Data Center Planner are: dynamic monitoring of environmental characteristics; visual modeling; planning and design; asset identification and location; capacity visualization; equipment library; data import; third party integration; and more.  

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Nathesh is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Nathesh's articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Rich Steeves
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