Posted on Mon, Oct 03, 2011 @ 05:26 AM
Then, don’t miss this month’s Viridity Software webinar series covering the topics of data center infrastructure management (DCIM) trends and best practices, as well as how to get started with data center chargebacks:
October 6, 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Viridity Software Webinar: Data Center Infrastructure Trends
As “data center infrastructure management” or “DCIM” evolves into a familiar industry-wide accepted term to define a unique discipline, and range of supporting technology solutions, whose goal it is to integrate facilities and IT management, what does “bridging the departmental gap” really mean? Where are the gaps? How are they impacting today’s data center and business environments? And, how can IT and facilities management benefit from bringing DCIM into the mix? Join Michael Tresh, Director of Product Management and Marketing, Viridity Software, as he discusses legacy, current and future data center infrastructure management and why DCIM is becoming a de facto standard industry best practice.
October 20, 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Viridity Software Webinar: Getting Started with Data Center Chargebacks
Executives are increasingly focused on understanding infrastructure and operations in data centers in order to fairly distribute the costs of these services to their users. While Data Center Managers try to determine the most efficient way of collecting the data, most current software tools only look at a narrow range of information, leaving them with an incomplete and inaccurate picture of what is going on. Viridity Software looks at both sides of the equation, including IT usage and power consumption, to deliver customized chargeback reports. Join Michael Tresh, Director of Product Management and Marketing, Viridity Software, as he discusses how to get started with monitoring assets for chargeback reporting.
Please visit the Viridity Software Events Page and Webinar Page often for a continuously updated schedule of activity.
Posted on Thu, Sep 01, 2011 @ 01:03 PM
Do you want to learn how to leverage data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solutions? How about, how to leverage DCIM for data center chargebacks?
If the answer is "yes" then, I wouldn’t miss this month’s Viridity Software webinars:
September 8, 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Viridity Software Webinar: Executive Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
The breadth and depth of information provided by DCIM technology enables Data Center Managers to impart intelligence cross-departmentally and directly to the desk of executives. Learn how a DCIM solution, such as Viridity EnergyCenter 2.0, can be leveraged for optimal understanding of a data center’s current state and projected needs in terms of cost. This webinar will provide a high-level view of DCIM's value and is intended for any person involved in making decisions in the data center. Join Patrick Kelly, Vice President of Sales, and Michael Tresh, Director of Product Management and Marketing, Viridity Software, as they discuss DCIM's critical importance to technologically advanced businesses.
September 22, 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Viridity Software Webinar: Getting Started with Data Center Chargebacks
Executives are increasingly focused on understanding infrastructure and operations in data centers in order to fairly distribute the costs of these services to their users. While Data Center Managers try to determine the most efficient way of collecting the data, most current software tools only look at a narrow range of information, leaving them with an incomplete and inaccurate picture of what is going on. Viridity Software looks at both sides of the equation, including IT usage and power consumption, to deliver customized chargeback reports. Join Michael Tresh, Director of Product Management and Marketing, Viridity Software, as he discusses how to get started with monitoring assets for chargeback reporting.
Please visit the Viridity Software Events Page and Webinar Page often for a continuously updated schedule of activity.
Posted on Tue, Aug 30, 2011 @ 12:45 PM
Today, Viridity Software announced that Intel® Data Center Manager SDK will be incorporated into its EnergyCenter™ software. This integration will help provide IT and facilities managers with the ability to obtain detailed information directly from specific server assets, such as temperature. In addition, the Intel-enhanced EnergyCenter software will help enable users to add and monitor new servers immediately as they come online, even before the baseline server profile is completed.
“The relationship with Intel and the addition of its technology into our EnergyCenter software is a critical next step as it provides the ability to communicate directly with the hardware and to expand the capabilities we can offer, as servers continue to become more sophisticated,” said Michael Tresh, Director of Product Management and Marketing, Viridity Software. “Simply put, Viridity can now provide customers with the ability to monitor and manage data center assets at a much more granular level, as well as offer a head-start on supporting and managing future technology.”
“While IT and facilities management are both tasked with data center infrastructure management and optimization, as well as lowering overall costs, both tend to come at it from different angles with very little, if any, intercommunication. The Intel-enhanced EnergyCenter software offering will help bridge the gap between these two highly business-critical constituencies to better meet their common goals,” said Jeffrey Klaus, Director, Data Center Solutions, Intel. “Intel is delighted to collaborate with a leading-edge solutions provider such as Viridity Software and to continue to extend our value more deeply into the data center infrastructure management layer.”
Viridity Software will highlight its Intel-enhanced EnergyCenter software solution at the upcoming Data Center World conference taking place September 11 – 14, 2011 at the Orlando World Center Marriott in Orlando Florida (Viridity Software Booth # 923). In addition, Viridity’s Director of Product Management and Marketing, Michael Tresh, will deliver an education session at the show entitled, “How to Tap Into Utility Company Rebates” on Monday, September 12, from 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Posted on Wed, Aug 03, 2011 @ 10:25 AM
Please join Viridity Software this month when we present two webinars tackling this topic. During both interactive presentations and the follow-on open discussion, attendees will learn, and have an opportunity to ask questions regarding, how to leverage a data center infrastructure management (DCIM) platform to lower cost, improve availability, better manage risk and align IT with business goals.
August 11, 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Viridity Software Webinar: DCIM for Business Driven Data Centers
CIO's and senior IT leaders are increasingly focused on infrastructure and operations management, as it is the largest component of the IT budget and is integral to the service quality of business systems. Data center infrastructure management technologies and processes enable IT to lower cost, improve availability, empower IT to better manage risks and help deliver on the CIO's strategic goal of aligning IT with the business. Join Michael Tresh, Director of Product Management and Marketing, Viridity Software, as he discusses the value of managing all interdependent systems across IT and facility infrastructures with one comprehensive platform.
August 25, 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Viridity Software Webinar: From Physical to Virtual Server Sprawl
If server sprawl was a problem during the dot-com era, what happens when a server is no longer a physical asset, but a virtual one? What challenges are created with virtual server sprawl?
- How much is server sprawl costing you in terms of licensing and resources? How can this be monetized?
- How can an underutilized server be identified and isolated? And how do you measure its utilization to ensure that it is, in fact, being underutilized?
- When retiring, how can you be sure that you’re not accidentally taking a vital application offline?
While server virtualization has delivered significant benefits, managing every asset and ensuring every kW and cent is spent wisely can be daunting, even though, there is tremendous opportunity in doing so. Join Michael Tresh, Director of Product Management and Marketing, Viridity Software, to learn how to rein in server sprawl and manage your complex, ever-changing interdependent systems with one simple platform.
Please visit the Viridity Software Events Page and Webinar Page often for a continuously updated schedule of activity.
Posted on Wed, Jul 13, 2011 @ 04:45 AM
Today, Viridity Software announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Information Systems Associates, Inc. (OTCQB:IOSA) (ISA). Under terms of the agreement, Viridity will offer ISA’s Data Center Collection service and OSPI Mobile system, in conjunction with its EnergyCenter software offering. When deployed in conjunction with EnergyCenter, the Data Center Collection service and OSPI Mobile system will enable data center, IT and facilities managers to achieve and maintain a firm grasp on the various IT assets and other equipment that have been added over time and spread across their data center environment, as well as identify each item’s utilization, application relationship, business criticality, and energy use.
ISA’s Data Center Collection onsite asset inventory service provides customers with an automatic deep dive data center survey that catalogs such areas as rack and device labeling schemes, manufacturers and models of devices. Viridity EnergyCenter customers can pre-schedule each site’s inventory, as well as set parameters that ensure adherence to all organizational security requirements and policies.
ISA’s OSPI Mobile data center asset management system enables Viridity EnergyCenter customers to securely monitor and manage their data center from a handheld device. This added ability dramatically reduces the time and effort necessary for data collection, asset inventory and data center change management. The OSPI system also maintains an audit archive for inventory management, future reference and regulatory compliance.
“This agreement underscores ISA’s commitment to establishing partnerships with category leaders, such as Viridity Software, whose customers can directly benefit from ISA’s deep understanding of data center infrastructure management systems,” said Joe Coschera, CEO, Information Systems Associates (ISA). “Being selected to offer our Data Center Collection and OSPI mobile management system in conjunction with Viridity’s world-class EnergyCenter software is further validation of the uniqueness and tremendous value of our patented data collection tools.”
“Indeed, we at Viridity also strive to build strategic relationships with visionary technology developers that can build-upon and enhance EnergyCenter’s value,” said Michael Tresh, Director of Product Marketing and Management, Viridity Software. “Through this partnership, Viridity Software customers will directly benefit from the ability to collect and manage data center asset information at a much more granular level – onsite or from a remote location via a handheld device. However, bottom line the new Viridity Software offering enables customers to more quickly and easily manage their data center environment, protect it from power brown-or black-out, and dramatically lower costs by identifying opportunities for optimization, consolidation and/or elimination.”
The Data Center Collection onsite asset inventory service and OSPI Mobile data center asset management system are now generally available from Viridity Software.
Posted on Tue, Jul 12, 2011 @ 09:54 AM
Viridity is pleased to announce its July 2011 webinars schedule (please see below). This month, we will feature an introduction to Viridity’s recently announced EnergyCenter v2.0 software (July 14), as well as a discussion during which we will explain why relying on manufacturers’ faceplate information can lead to vast stranded capacity and/or under provisioning and system failure (July 28).
Here is the July line-up:
July 14, 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Viridity Software Webinar: Viridity’s EnergyCenter Version 2.0 (v2.0)
On Monday, June 20, Viridity Software proudly announced the release of its EnergyCenter™ version 2.0 (v2.0) software - the industry’s most innovative, easy-to-use and cost effective solution for monitoring, optimizing and managing data center space, power and cooling as they dynamically relate to IT assets and their utilization. Join Mike Tresh, Viridity’s Director of Product Management and Marketing, for a live discussion of EnergyCenter’s new features and functionality – including: user defined asset grouping, VMware Virtual Guest Power Analysis, Heat Mapping, and much more. The webinar will also feature a demo and real-world case study presentation, as well as an opportunity to participate in live Q&A.
July 28, 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Viridity Software Webinar: The Genetics of the Data Center
For every server, there are hundreds of possible configurations – each of which can swing power draw by hundreds of watts. A data center manager that simply relies upon the manufacturer’s maximum nameplate will either leave vast stranded capacity or under provision and risk failure. Join Viridity’s Adam Matusiak, Consulting Engineer, and Mike Tresh, Director of Product Marketing and Management, as they explain this widespread data center occurrence. They will then describe how Viridity’s EnergyCenter Genome Database can accurately present each server’s baseline, as well as forecast server power draw in various implementation scenarios, without any added hardware or agents necessary.
Please visit the Viridity Software Events Page and Webinar Page often for a continuously updated schedule of activity.
Posted on Mon, Jul 11, 2011 @ 10:36 AM
Today, Viridity Software announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with European market maker and value added distributor - CiRRUS Management Solutions. Under terms of the agreement, CiRRUS will distribute Viridity’s EnergyCenter™ data center infrastructure (DCIM) software to its vast network of market-leading reseller partners across Europe, who will in turn, incorporate it into their own technology portfolios thereby making it available to data center, IT and infrastructure managers across the continent.
“The European marketplace recognized long ago the critical importance of being ‘green’ – for its environmental and corporate social responsibility impact, as well as for the fact that the proper management of data center power and cooling simply makes sound business sense,” said Mark Kacary, Co-Founder and Director, CiRRUS. “Viridity EnergyCenter delivers the world’s most innovative, easy-to-use and cost effective solution for monitoring, optimizing and managing data center space, power and cooling as they dynamically relate to IT assets and their utilization. For an enterprise data center, this could equal savings into the millions of dollars range.” He continued, “The intensely positive response from our reseller partners, and consequently their end user customers, has been as expected – tremendous!”
“CiRRUS has earned the trust of the European channel as it is well known the incredibly rigorous review and testing process that each and every product and service must pass through before earning their seal of approval. We are therefore deeply gratified to have been selected by CiRRUS as their featured DCIM solution,” said Patrick Kelly, Vice President of Sales, Viridity Software. “Expanding our presence and footprint across the European marketplace is a top priority for us. The relationship with CiRRUS is already providing dividends for both companies."
Viridity Software EnergyCenter is immediately available across Europe. Data center, IT and facilities managers that wish to find a reseller partner in their geographic locale and/or resellers that would like to learn how their organization could benefit from adding EnergyCenter software to their company’s portfolio, may email: info@cirrus-ms.com.uk.
Posted on Mon, Jun 20, 2011 @ 03:48 PM
Today, Viridity Software announced the release of its EnergyCenter™ version 2.0 (v2.0) software - the industry’s most innovative, easy-to-use and cost effective solution for monitoring, optimizing and managing data center space, power and cooling as they dynamically relate to IT assets and their utilization. EnergyCenter v2.0, which can be deployed as a direct, embedded or modular DCIM solution, features key product enhancements that enable the data center, IT and/or facilities manager to more easily, cost effectively and accurately plan for and execute, expansion, consolidation, virtualization and/or cloud initiatives.
EnergyCenter v2.0 Enhancements:
- User Defined Asset Grouping: Ability to group or filter assets based on application, owner and/or contact – enables users to connect physical and virtual assets to applications and lines-of-business (i.e., budgeting and chargeback capabilities).
- VMware Virtual Guest Power Analysis: Monitoring and power consumption analysis of virtual guests - uncovers virtual machine sprawl and identifies underutilized virtual assets.
- Heat Mapping: Graphical overlay reports of top power consumers, underutilized servers and BTU output visualizes actionable information.
- Advanced Auto Alert: Ability to assign power and utilization thresholds and be auto-notified when thresholds are exceeded.
- Enhanced Import/Export: Import/export asset information – eliminates cumbersome reconciliation between legacy asset management systems.
- Extended Data Center Genome Database (GxDB): Database extended with thousands of additional measured server power profiles, as well as storage and switch specifications.
In a Gartner report entitled, “DCIM: Going Beyond IT” author David Cappuccio, Research Vice President, stated “Monitoring energy consumption and equipment performance has been performed for many years, but almost exclusively on the facilities side of the business, and rarely on IT equipment. Building management systems monitor security, power, lighting and all facets of the day-to-day operations of the building itself, while operations technologies have been used to manage the physical equipment needed to run the business. IT equipment, on the other hand, was rarely monitored for energy consumption, but rather for performance and availability. CIOs were chartered with keeping the systems running, often at more than 99.9% availability levels; however, little attention was paid to the physical infrastructure supporting the systems and how efficiently it was running.”
“Escalating energy costs, inefficient/ineffective infrastructure management tools and unknown downstream regulatory actions, combined with rapidly growing requirements on IT, are driving Facilities and Data Center Managers to deploy and leverage cost effective, easy-to-use and accurate DCIM tools, such as Viridity’s EnergyCenter, in order to reduce costs and optimize data centers, ” said Bob Laliberte, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). “We believe that customers will be able to take full advantage of EnergyCenter’s v2.0 enhancements as they will help them to overcome many of their top IT challenges.”
“Viridity’s EnergyCenter software has a unique approach and set of functions, especially in the way that it is able to discover assets and accurately measure power consumption without the use of extra devices. This means it can be deployed within minutes, enabling customers to start optimizing their power and cooling, and to simulate and plan their use of datacenter resources,” said Andy Lawrence, Program Director of the Uptime Institute Symposium and Research Director for Eco-Efficient IT and Datacenter Technologies, The 451 Group. “These capabilities have earned it a position as a DCIM innovator and leader (and also led to its recent Uptime Institute 2011 Green Enterprise IT Award).”
“We are excited about our customer driven innovation agenda and v2.0, with Viridity’s signature ease of use, is packed with rich new features that further enhance our customer’s advantage in data center capacity, asset and energy management. It is the only product on the market today that is deployable within minutes, giving rapid and continuous savings on energy costs while improving data center resilience and agility to respond to business service needs,” said Arun Oberoi, President and CEO, Viridity Software.
EnergyCenter v2.0 general availability is planned for July 2011.
Posted on Mon, May 16, 2011 @ 12:37 PM
Viridity Software is delighted to announce that Patrick Kelly has joined the company as Vice President of North American Sales, effective immediately. In this newly created position, Kelly will be responsible for accelerating Viridity’s rapid growth opportunity with customers and partners in the Region. He will report directly to Viridity’s CEO, Arun Oberoi.
“I am delighted to have an executive with Patrick’s experience and strong track record of building and leading sales teams to penetrate new markets and respond with excellence to customer commitment join the Viridity team,” said Oberoi. “His experience in the data center and IT enterprise management space with industry leading players will be very valuable to our mission of enabling customers to bridge the critical dependencies gap between IT and facilities infrastructure.”
“Viridity has made tremendous progress in the DCIM space and is at the forefront of data center software innovation,” said Kelly. “Award winning technology and strong people make for unbeatable companies. I’m therefore thrilled to be joining Viridity – a company that clearly exemplifies both and is now well positioned for exciting growth.”
With over 16 years of experience, Patrick Kelly is a highly seasoned sales executive who brings tremendous team building capability and sales energy to Viridity Software. Prior to joining Viridity, Kelly served as Vice President of Sales, Senior Advisor, CA Technologies responsible for re-building the Canadian Infrastructure Management Business Unit from the ground-up. Prior to CA, Patrick held the position of Director of Sales, Micromuse (acquired by IBM Tivoli) where he was responsible for Sales in the Americas to the Telco segment.
Posted on Fri, Apr 29, 2011 @ 12:44 PM
Andy Lawrence, Research Director of Eco-Efficient IT at The 451 Group and Program Director of Uptime Symposium, gives you straight talk on DCIM (data center infrastructure management) software. Andy answers questions including: What is DCIM? Why invest in DCIM solutions? What are the pain points for implementation? Where is DCIM going in the future?