APC joins Microsoft System Centre Alliance
ConvergenceAsia staff
12/09/2009

APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, has joined the Microsoft System Centre Alliance to enhance and provide support for critical physical infrastructure monitoring and management through the integration of APC InfraStruXure Central with Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager 2007.

The APC Management Pack for System Centre Operations Manager 2007 enables integrated system and service monitoring in a multi-vendor environment. The integration of APC's data centre management suite with Microsoft's System Centre Operations Manager 2007 will give data centre managers the ability to view and manage physical infrastructure, including power, cooling, physical space and security, as well as providing a comprehensive view of the health of servers, applications, and clients within the data centre.

Linking the physical and server environments with the APC Management Pack through Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager 2007 allows customers to better understand the impact of physical layer changes on business applications, said Alistair Pim, APC's vice president of Global Strategic Alliances.

"Through this ongoing partnership, APC and Microsoft strive to deliver resilient, energy-efficient, and cost effective solutions for the IT environment."

The purpose of the System Centre Alliance is to provide an online community to help partners more easily collaborate on the creation of solutions for System Centre, as well as deliver a vehicle for providing information about those solutions to customers and sales channels.

"The integration of Microsoft System Centre Manager 2007 and the APC Management Pack enables our customers to better view and manage the physical infrastructure supporting key applications throughout their business," said JD Marymee, director of strategic partner alliances, Management and Services Division, Microsoft.

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