CA expands DCIM and IT energy management capabilities

CA Southern Africa today announced new and enhanced offerings in its CA ecoSoftware solution designed to further extend the company's support for data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) and IT energy management.

The improved capabilities in CA ecoMeter 3.0 and the new CA ecoDesktop offering can help IT and facilities staff gain greater availability, agility and efficiency in their data centre and IT operations.

“As organisations become increasingly dependent on data centres - either on-premise or in the cloud - to provide critical applications and services, the challenges and risks associated with uptime, power and cooling capacity have become more pronounced,” says Roal Hunter, business development manager, CA Southern Africa.

“In addressing these challenges, our CA ecoSoftware solution reaches from the desktop to the data centre and across the enterprise. It helps customers provide for availability, reduce costs and more rapidly meet the demands of the business.”

Hunter says CA ecoMeter 3.0 has expanded its existing DCIM capabilities to include template-driven auto-discovery of facility and IT assets to accelerate inventory capture for rapid implementation.

“The product also provides integration with CA Application Insight Modules for accurate mapping between logical or virtual components and the physical infrastructure on which they depend, for efficient management of IT and cloud-based services. CA ecoMeter 3.0 also leverages CA Executive Insight Manager to provide mobile device users with role-based insight into availability, performance and operational efficiency across the data centre.”

CA Technologies has partnered with Cisco to introduce new bi-directional integration capabilities in CA ecoMeter 3.0. The product has an advanced gateway that gathers a wide range of IT and facilities system parameters that can be published to, and utilised by, Cisco EnergyWise-enabled systems.

Customers can also obtain power data from Cisco EnergyWise-enabled devices for improved energy management.

Hunter notes that many organisations incur substantial costs to pay for the energy consumed by desktop computers, with estimates showing that, on average, one-third of all desktops are left on 24 hours a day.

“Enterprises and government organisations often seek to reduce the unnecessary consumption. CA ecoDesktop is a new solution that supports an inventory-based approach to managing desktop power. It helps organisations identify savings opportunities and implement profiles to increase efficiency while addressing the requirements of end-users for uninterrupted access to their systems. CA ecoDesktop also delivers reporting to help organisations demonstrate energy cost savings and reductions in carbon emissions,” concludes Hunter.