Emerson Network Power 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 optimisation 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 utilisation.
?Virtualisation 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, Avocent business, Emerson Network Power.
The Trellis platform will increase capacity utilisation by providing visibility into and control over integration and collaboration between the physical and IT infrastructure layers, what Emerson Network Power calls dynamic infrastructure optimisation, eliminating the need for guesswork that necessitates a power system capacity ?buffer.?
The Trellis platform brings together the functionalities of Emerson?s existing Aperture, Avocent and Liebert DCIM Solutions and enhances them by creating one seamless solution that draws information into one source of truth. Emerson Network Power expects the core Trellis modules to be available by the fourth quarter of 2011 with subsequent modules rolling out over the following 12 to 18 months. To begin achieving the benefits of an optimised data center infrastructure, customers can implement any of Emerson Network Power?s existing hardware or software solutions. Current solutions will either migrate or integrate, as appropriate, with the new Trellis platform and bring the customer dynamic infrastructure optimization, a level of DCIM that no one else can provide.
