ITR Technology today announced launch of ManageEngine RackBuilder Plus for 3D modelling

By Phumeza Tontsi for ITR Technology
Pretoria, 13 May 2014

ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today launched RackBuilder Plus, the easy-to-use, 3D visual modelling software for large enterprises and data centres. With RackBuilder Plus, IT and data centre admins save time and improve facilities management with a complete inventory of the data centre, including all the relationship details between racks, floors and devices. In an industry-first combination, RackBuilder Plus also offers real-time monitoring of data centre devices. A video demo of RackBuilder Plus is available at http://demo.rackbuilderplus.com.

Abri van Tonder, Managing Director of ITR Technology, said: "As more enterprises run multiple data centres for load sharing and redundancy, admins find it difficult to gain clear overall visibility into their data centres. Conventional data centre documentation tools such as Excel and Visio do not provide a dynamic, realistic view of the data centre. In turn, admins have to sift through multiple pages of documents to trace a particular device that has to be removed from the rack for maintenance. Meanwhile, the visual modelling tools available in the market fail to offer the 3D views that data centre admins require."

"A lifelike, realistic view of the data centre is necessary for gaining more visibility and managing it better," said Dev Anand, director of product management at ManageEngine. "With RackBuilder Plus, data centre admins can create an exact replica of the data centre floor with all the racks and devices populated - in 3D. This makes it easy for them to quickly locate a device or a rack."

RackBuilder Plus offers an easy-to-use rack and floor builder that lets data centre admins create 3D views of racks and data centre floors. Admins just drag and drop devices onto the racks and then drag and drop the racks onto the floors. RackBuilder Plus combines 3D visual modelling with device monitoring to help admins identify the health status of the devices in real-time.

RackBuilder Plus also improves facilities management by making it easier for admins to identify the free slots available in each rack, as well as the rack space available on each floor. This helps data centre admins find out their rack and floor utilisation and plan accordingly for future expansion. RackBuilder Plus also supports data migration from other data centre documentation tools such as Device42 and RackTables.

RackBuilder Plus is built on OpManager, ManageEngine's highly scalable, data centre infrastructure management software that can monitor 50 000 devices or 1 million interfaces from a single server. Data centre admins seeking more visibility and management into their data centre can convert RackBuilder Plus into OpManager for network management, physical and virtual server monitoring, fault management, workflow automation, asset management and more.

Pricing and availability

RackBuilder Plus is available for immediate download at http://www.manageengine.com/data-center-visualization/download.html.

For more information on RackBuilder Plus, please visit www.itrtech.co.za or contact Lauren or Sybrand at ITR Technology (+27) 12 665 5551.

RackBuilder Plus

RackBuilder Plus is 3D visual modelling software that helps admins visualise data centre floors in 3D. A lifelike view of the data centre floors and racks allows admins to have a virtual walk-through across the floors from their office. RackBuilder Plus also offers real-time health status of devices using colour codes and helps identify faulty devices in the data centre. It is easy to install and use and is available for a free, 30-day trial. For more information on ManageEngine RackBuilder Plus, please visit http://www.manageengine.com/data-center-visualization/.

OpManager

ManageEngine OpManager is a network management platform that helps large enterprises, service providers and SMEs manage their data centres and IT infrastructure efficiently and cost-effectively. Automated workflows, intelligent alerting engines, configurable discovery rules, and extendable templates enable IT teams to set up a 24x7 monitoring system within hours of installation. Do-it-yourself plug-ins extend the scope of management to include network change and configuration management and IP address management, as well as monitoring of networks, applications, databases, virtualisation and NetFlow-based bandwidth. For more information on ManageEngine OpManager, please visit http://www.manageengine.com/opmanager/.

ITR Technology

ITR Technology has been the sub-Saharan African partner to Zoho Corporation for a number of years, providing resellers and end-users local access to the ManageEngine enterprise management solutions. ITR has successfully built a strong reseller and end-user base through cost-effective solutions and management applications. Apart from ManageEngine, ITR Technology is also the distributor of Prism Suite, Empirum Pro from Matrix42 and EgoSecure Endpoint Security. For more information, please e-mail lauren@itrtech.co.za, call (+27) 12 665 5551 or visit www.itrtech.co.za.

ManageEngine

ManageEngine delivers the real-time IT management tools that empower an IT team to meet an organisation's need for real-time services and support. Worldwide, more than 90 000 established and emerging customers - including more than 60% of the Fortune 500 - rely on ManageEngine products to ensure the optimal performance of their critical IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, applications, desktops and more. Another 300 000-plus admins optimise their IT using the free editions of ManageEngine products. ManageEngine is a division of Zoho Corp, with offices worldwide, including the United States, United Kingdom, India, Japan and China. For more information, please visit http://buzz.manageengine.com/; follow the company blog at http://blogs.manageengine.com/; on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ManageEngine; and on Twitter at @ManageEngine.

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