INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT UPDATE: nlyte, SynapSense/Coolcentric

6/9/2010
nlyte upgrades power management suite; Coolcentric and SynapSense team up

As data center infrastructure monitoring and control are moving closer to center stage in a market concerned with energy and capital efficiency as well as existing (UK) and pending (US) climate change regulations, infrastructure management vendors are making moves to grab as large of a share as possible of a market that is still shaping up.

On Wednesday, nlyte Software announced a new release of its power management solution and provider of data center cooling products Coolcentric said it had temaed up with SynapSense to deliver the company’s full wireless-sensor-based power and environmental monitoring solution.

The new upgraded version of nlyte’s DCIM solution is called nlyte 5.3. Its new features include end-to-end power mapping, automated power load algorithms and comprehensive modeling capabilities.

“These new capabilities meet our customers growing challenge of managing and optimizing power usage while their data centers continue to expand in both size and complexity,” said in a statement Alan Shaeffer, general manager at RightStar Systems, provider of service-management solutions.

The suite now maps power from the sub-station feed, through UPS systems, PDU’s, generators, static switches and power strips, all the way to the servers. The new build also models power of air conditioning units, which can be included in the overall power consumption plan of the facility.

The automated power load algorithms can forecast the impact of any planned changes on the facility’s power. It generates customizable reports to deliver results of the calculations.

Another new modeling capability is calculation of the impact of a power failure on the data center infrastructure.

Finally, the solution can now model Power Usage Effectiveness ratio.

Coolcentric, a division of Vette Corp., has incorporated SynapSense’s data center monitoring and management solution into its Environmental Monitoring System, adding power metering of data center cooling and IT infrastructure, as well as circuit-level power monitoring. The integration also adds real-time thermal, pressure, humidity and dew point mapping capabilities to Coolcentric’s EMS.

Coolcentric’s EMS collects data through wireless sensors throughout the data center and feeds it to a server that runs the EMS software.

Coolcentric will deliver the integrated solution through its professional services organization.