The purpose of DCIM in general is to give data center operators and their customers a complete view of costs not only from IT but the facilities side of the shop as well — two camps that don’t always communicate well.

The EnergyCenter addition, announced Tuesday, will bring Schneider’s StruxureWare DCIM suite a fuller and more detailed picture of the energy cost and resource utilization of IT gear including routers, servers and switches. That is an area where Schneider had some gaps, acknowledged Soeren Brogaard Jensen, VP of enterprise software for Schneider.

“We did not have a deep understanding of power and networks before,” Jensen said, although Schneider had worked with big IT vendors including Cisco Microsoft and VMware on this problem.  The EnergyCenter technology compliments this work, Jensen said.

EnergyCenter’s Genome database contains detailed profiles of more than 40,000 devices, according to Jensen.  Its addition will bring a better understanding of resource utilization so that customers can see what devices are not being used to their full capacity, he said.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

DCIM, an area where Schneider competes with companies like Emerson Network Power, and Nlyte, is a field to watch as pressure mounts for data centers to get as energy efficient as possible.

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