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Schneider Electric Buys Viridity Platform to Enhance Data Center Suite
December 28, 2011 No CommentsBolstering its effort to provide data center managers complete visibility over IT and facility operations, Schneider Electric is acquiring Viridity’s EnergyCenter 2.0 platform.
The strategic investment in EnergyCenter 2.0 will enhance Schneider’s StruxureWare for Data Centers suite, adding functionality to track energy use more closely and manage resource efficiencies for IT components including routers, servers and switches.
Viridity’s software tracks server utilization and gives data center operators the opportunity to gather data and monitor IT assets for all mission critical physical systems of the data center, says Schneider. StruxureWare already incorporated facility and infrastructure management for data centers, but the EnergyCenter 2.0 platform adds the component of allowing Schneider’s customers to increase efficiency and manage energy use.
In June, Viridity released EnergyCenter 2.0 adding a number of enhancements to align more closely with business imperatives, including the ability accurately track compute time and energy cross-functionally between departments. The company also won a Green Enterprise IT Award from the Uptime Institute for Outstanding IT Product in May.
