Emerson Network Power has introduced Trellis, the first integrated, single-information-source data center infrastructure management (DCIM) platform to bridge the critical gap between a data center's IT equipment and facilities infrastructure.
The Trellis dynamic infrastructure optimization platform is a family of hardware, software and services designed to manage the dynamic nature and requirements of the infrastructure holistically from a central "source of truth", enabling data center managers to make smarter decisions on the interplay between efficiency, availability and capacity utilization.
"Virtualization has brought greater flexibility and efficiency to data center management, but has introduced new complexities and pressures to the static physical infrastructure," said Steve Hassell, President of the Avocent business of Emerson Network Power. Hassell was CIO at Emerson when the company built its new 35,000-sq. ft. LEED Gold data center, an initiative that gave him first-hand experience with the challenges facing even a state-of-the-art data center.
"Organizations today lack visibility into the impact of virtualization and the deployment of high-density servers on the physical infrastructure, and that keeps them from utilizing the full capacity of their equipment. We intend to provide that visibility along with the tools to manage and optimize changes to the physical infrastructure."
The Trellis platform will increase capacity utilization by providing visibility into and control over integration and collaboration between the physical and IT infrastructure layers - what Emerson Network Power calls dynamic infrastructure optimization - eliminating the need for guesswork that necessitates a power system capacity "buffer".
