Emerson Trellis DCIM solution

Emerson Network Power has available the first four software applications in the Trellis platform, designed to unify IT and facilities management for improved data centre performance and TCO.

This first release includes capabilities in four of the core components in the 451 Group’s DCIM (data centre infrastructure management) capability definition.

Trellis Energy Insight calculates total data centre energy consumption, electrical costs and power usage effectiveness (PUE)/data centre infrastructure efficiency (DCiE) value to allow data centre managers to understand how infrastructure changes impact energy efficiency and, subsequently, the bottom line.

Trellis Site Manager reports the health of the infrastructure, including environmental conditions, to data centre personnel, enabling them to recognise and resolve conditions that impact infrastructure availability and system performance.

Trellis Inventory Manager provides data centre management with the foundation for an accurate and complete model of its data centres globally, the knowledge of where devices and equipment are located, the relationship between components and what resources are being used.

Trellis Change Planner works with the inventory manager to ensure that accurate and consistent information is used. This ensures that installs, moves and decommissions of equipment are consistently planned, tracked and communicated to team members to streamline operations and minimise the impact of changes on the quality of services delivered.

Working with the Avocent Universal Management Gateway, these software applications deliver real-time infrastructure optimisation that enables up to a claimed 70% improved operational efficiency and 25% improved energy efficiency. As the intelligence-gathering appliance and software applications share an underlying platform, the applications build on one another; allowing capabilities to be added to adapt to change and prepare for the future, offering a flexible and scalable DCIM solution.