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Infrastructure Management &
Monitoring for

Business-Critical Continuity

TM

Changing the way companies run their data centers

The Aperture® Suite

OPTIMIZE
PERFORMANCE OF YOUR
DATA CENTER WITHOUT

COMPROMISING
AVAILABILITY

Reduce your costs 20% and maintain five­nines uptime. Sound familiar?

Data center managers today are under
unprecedented internal and external
pressures to improve their efficiency without
compromising availability. These competing
demands and other problems like aging data
center infrastructures and the management
of heterogeneous equipment, along with new
technologies like high-density operation and
virtualization, ratchet up the complexity of
managing data centers.

Until recently, little attention was paid to the
physical infrastructure supporting the
systems and how efficiently it was running.
Many companies have implemented IT
Service Management (ITSM) solutions, but
most have stopped at the business service

level and have not extended those capabilities

and principles into the physical layer. Now,
businesses realize that the most effectively
managed data centers will be those with
up-to-date, detailed and meaningful
information about the underlying
configuration (i.e., the foundation) that
supports the data center’s operation.

Today, more than 250 organizations around
the world and leading Fortune 1000
companies including Fujitsu, JPMorgan Chase
and the National Institutes of Health have
turned to Aperture® solutions to help them
optimize data center operations, deliver better
services at lower costs and reduce risk.

Aperture is the only enterprise data center
infrastructure management solution with
proven success in enabling organizations to
deliver the highest levels of reliable, eff icient IT
service that truly aligns with business objectives.

Data Center Infrastructure Management

The complexity of the data center has far outstripped traditional
methods for infrastructure management. Unfortunately, the
majority of data centers are still managed using ad hoc tools and
processes to track individual pieces of equipment or resources.

In the past, these tools could suffice. Change was slow and

operations static. Today’s data centers evolve rapidly. The

widespread adoption of virtualization and subsequent

requirements for data centers to be agile have rendered

traditional tools obsolete.

Gartner, Forrester, 451 and other leading analysts recently noted
the need for organizations to utilize holistic solutions that

address issues of the modern data center.

Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) has emerged as

a framework for holistically managing the physical IT resources.

It is effectively combining the building managemeant (i.e.,
facilities) and performance management (i.e., IT) domains.

According to David Cappuccio at Gartner, “Although it will not
replace either, DCIM will take facets of each and apply them to
data center infrastructures, eventually affecting everything

from inventory and change management to capacity planning

and carbon footprint reporting.”

Today, only Aperture® delivers all aspects of DCIM in a single
solution. Aperture enables an organization to holistically
manage and optimize data center operations by integrating

information about equipment and the resources they use into a
comprehensive view of the infrastructure. Within the visual and
multi-dimensional Aperture framework, IT organizations use
accurate, real-world information to manage enterprise data
centers so that they can more effectively deliver predictable,
consistent services, support green initiatives, proactively
manage capacity and optimize resource use.

Managing the Data Center Gap

“ Before deploying Aperture, we were using spreadsheets and data tables to record trends and enable

predictive reporting. This was inaccurate, time consuming and prone to error. By using Aperture,

we are able to centralize information in a single database which enables us to maintain accurate and

reliable configuration information while enabling the better utilization of operational staff by freeing

up valuable time.”

– Robert Innes, global data center manager, Elsevier