Schneider Electric has announced the modernization of its EcoStruxure IT software portfolio for the monitoring and management of sprawling, hybrid IT infrastructure. The modernisation was needed as the IT infrastructure has become increasingly complex in the last few years.

Business continuity is dependent on everything from the smallest end point to the largest data center. Therefore, edge deployments are now considered mission-critical to centralized data centers, and a new capability of software tools is required to maintain the resiliency and security of the infrastructure.

Additionally, sustainability is emerging as another significant trend: the energy consumption and carbon footprint of a company’s data centers will need to be measured and managed. Based on internal Schneider Electric projections, by 2040, total data center energy consumption will be 2,700 TWh with 60 per cent coming from distributed sites and 40 per cent from data centers.

Legacy DCIM software wasn’t created with all of these concerns in mind, hence Schneider Electric’s investment in EcoStruxure IT. It modernizes the monitoring, management, planning, and modeling of IT physical infrastructure, with options that include on-prem and cloud-based solutions to support hybrid, distributed IT environments.

“There’s been tremendous change since DCIM first emerged as a software category,” said Kevin Brown, SVP of EcoStruxure Solutions, Secure Power, Schneider Electric. “The hybrid IT environment is challenging even the most sophisticated CIO organization with maintaining the resiliency, security, and sustainability of their IT systems. We call this trend DCIM 3.0. Schneider Electric is investing in and evolving EcoStruxure IT to provide more capability, flexibility, and deployment options than ever before for enterprises and colocation facilities everywhere in the world.”

Sustainability, security, and resiliency

EcoStruxure IT deliver value through customer-driven applications, including…

• Monitoring and Management: Device management for power and cooling devices, as well as physical security and environmental monitoring.
• Planning and Modeling: For visualization, asset tracking, simulation, and change management for over 4000 devices.
  Custom Solutions and Integrations: Tailored solutions to address unique customer requirements through automated reporting, dashboards, migrations, and custom integrations with EcoStruxure IT and third-party systems or software.

“The IT infrastructure landscape is undergoing significant transformation as it evolves from individual data centers to distributed, hybrid IT, and it demands more than what we think of as ‘traditional DCIM’ to ensure it is resilient, secure, and sustainable,” said Industry Consultant David Cappuccio. “EcoStruxure IT is helping to simplify the complexity of sprawling IT architecture and modernize it for both current and future needs.”

Specialized team of engineers

To maximize a customer’s experience with EcoStruxure IT, Schneider Electric has created a custom solutions team comprising skilled engineers who perform custom integrations everywhere in the world. This one-of-a-kind team provides the necessary resources and capabilities to ensure a customer can deploy EcoStruxure IT successfully.

“This team embodies what Schneider Electric means when we say that we are the most local of global companies,” said Brown. “Team members speak 24 languages and represent 15 nationalities. They partner with customers in every part of the globe. We are there to make sure the customer is successful in the short term and the long term.”