APC Enhances InfraStruxure Lineup

APC by Schneider Electric has enhanced its Infrastruxure architecture and management software portfolio to deliver a 25 percent increase in power and cooling capacity, a 15 percent reduction in footprint, and 15 percent lower cost.

Additional new capabilities featured in the InfraStruxure lineup include double-conversion uninterruptible power supply (UPS) with an internal modular design that APC says enables easy scaling and reconfiguring without downtime, as well as a modular Power Distribution Unit (PDU) designed to simplify the installation and reconfiguration of IT devices. Also included are a refrigerant distribution unit (RDU) and NetShelter SX Networking Enclosures, which are optimized rack systems for high-density environments.

APC also upgraded its Infrastruxure management portfolio, a core feature of APC’s InfraStruxure architecture, which provides an open, vendor-neutral management platform for data center physical infrastructure. New features help companies conserve energy and cut costs by delivering active, open, management across all key domains of the data center, including power, cooling, rack systems and security systems.

The enhanced capabilities include the new Data Center Lab application within InfraStruxure Capacity, a data center project management tool that enables the design of new data center build-outs or data center upgrade with drag and drop functionality. In addition, InfraStruxure Capacity’s updated Impact Analysis application provides an instant overview of data center physical infrastructure operations.

Furthermore, InfraStruxure Efficiency 1.1 enables reporting on monthly energy consumption of data center subsystems, and a new network management tool within InfraStruxure Capacity provides insight into equipment dependencies including mapping and documenting fiber and copper networks from servers, via patch panels, to switches or routers, allowing IT managers to document connectivity, manage their network structure and plan and control network usage.