APC’s Capacity Manager Earns Gold Honors in SearchDataCenter.com’s “Products of the Year” Awards
APC Capacity Manager Recognized in Capacity and Power Management Tools Category
APC, a global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, today announced that its Capacity Manager product received a Gold Award as one of the three best capacity and power management products released in 2007, according to Tech Target’s SearchDataCenter.com 2007 “Products of the Year” awards.
Capacity Manager was chosen from a number of new products submitted for consideration to SearchDataCenter.com in eight categories. The editors of SearchDataCenter.com, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants judged the awards. Judges selected the winning products from data center products introduced, upgraded and shipped between October 31, 2006 and November 1, 2007.
Using live operating data on current space, cooling and power utilization combined with the requirements of new servers and the available physical infrastructure, Capacity Manager calculates physical infrastructure capabilities, as well as consumption of space and power. This information enables users to determine how much data center capacity is available, giving data center managers a more efficient and quicker way to track resources.
“Finding out you have a problem two months prior to having a problem is not soon enough. Capital planning and readiness takes nine to 18 months, so a system that gives us a trending method is a huge advantage for us,” said one user of capacity planning software quoted in the SearchDataCenter.com award article.
“With Capacity Manager’s unique modeling engine, combined with live operating data, it is now possible for data center managers to simulate and predict the impact that resource changes in a data center will have on the cooling and power infrastructure,” said John DiPippo, APC’s senior vice president of Data Center Solutions, Service and Software. “It is critical that data center professionals right-size the capacity supply with the capacity demand. With the trends towards increasing power densities, the likelihood that hot spots or power overloading will occur from data center changes is driving the need for intelligent software applications such as Capacity Manager. Additionally, the software’s robust inventory management tool and complementary change workflow application give data center managers unprecedented visibility and control of their data center infrastructure.”
