By Telecom Lead Team: Schneider Electric, a global
provider of energy management solutions, has been named a Market Leader in the
Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) space by analyst firm IDC.
The IDC report details the current climate and scope of
the DCIM market. IDC placed Schneider Electric in the highest category of
Market Leader when compared to a wide range of competitor’s solutions. The
report, published in January of 2012, places Schneider Electric at the
forefront of DCIM technology development and as an industry thought leader.
Schneider Electric is an IDC MarketScape Leader
worldwide. Schneider performed well in the business capabilities and strategy
criteria sections, particularly regarding its growth strategy, innovation, and
employee management. This evaluation was based on a comprehensive framework
that assessed vendors across a wide variety of technical and operational
criteria, weighted by factors IDC believed will be the most influential over
the next three to five years, according to the report.
To be identified by IDC as a Market Leader in the DCIM
space is a tremendous validation of the effectiveness of our DCIM
solutions. As the DCIM space continues to grow and evolve Schneider
Electric will remain committed to bringing our customers the most robust and
innovative line of DCIM solutions on the market to further streamline IT and
facilities management,” said Soeren Brogaard Jensen, vice president, Enterprise
Software, and Schneider Electric.
Schneider Electric’s DCIM solutions are an integral part
of StruxureWare for Data Centers, an integrated management software suite
designed to address all aspects of the data center physical infrastructure
needed to maximize availability and efficiency.
The suite combines Schneider Electric’s market leading
Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and Data Center Facility
Management (DCFM) software tools to provide data gathering, monitoring and
automation, and planning and implementation functionalities enabling an
integrated and multifaceted view of all the mission critical physical systems
of the data center.
In addition to Schneider Electric’s StruxureWare for Data
Centers, the recent intellectual property acquisition of Viridity’s
EnergyCenter 2.0 platform adds further capabilities to the software
suite. The EnergyCenter 2.0 software enables auto-discovery of IT assets
to optimize capacity utilization at the IT asset level.
