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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

Aperture®: Extending ITSM into the Data Center

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Aperture fully supports DCIM with a suite of applications that creates a unified view of physical resources across

multiple data centers. Aperture addresses five core data center management components so that

organizations can enter at different points and evolve based on their current requirements/operational

maturity. The solution includes applications for monitoring and control, physical asset and resource

management, people and process management, ITSM integration and performance optimization.
Organizations can now take control of and optimize an increasingly complex physical infrastructure including
equipment, space, power, cooling, network and storage. Designed for complex, enterprise-level data centers,
Aperture extends the discipline and principles of ITSM into the data center. By creating an IT view of the physical

infrastructure, Aperture bridges the gap between IT and facilities to bring the management of space, power
and cooling within the ITSM framework.

“ Aperture saves us 480 hours per month on installation and migration tasks and 20 hours

per month in auditing in one data center alone. Our customers demand the best in data center

management and planning. Aperture enables us to meet their needs while having complete insight into,

and control over, our environments.”

– Mark Scott, Head of Customer Data Centers, Fujitsu Services

Aperture® solutions have helped companies reduce time-to­provision servers from two months to two weeks, save millions of
dollars through reconciliation of assets and cut hundreds of hours
per month off installation time and costs. With Aperture, your
organization can:

• Optimize energy, capital resource and process efficiency

with risk-adjusted values that provide insight into the actual
resource load.

• More effectively rightsize the physical infrastructure and

extend data center lifespan with a holistic view of the
infrastructure.

• Maintain a single, trusted source of information for the entire

data center and its contents within a business service view.

• Visually monitor all data centers through a single, unified

solution to eliminate the use of ad hoc tools and processes.

• Automate and standardize data center processes to remove

the “human element” and increase the delivery of
predictable, high-quality service.

Proven Solutions for DCIM and Optimization

PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION

Aperture® Integrated Resource Manager Aperture® Capacity Manager

Provides risk-adjusted operational values that enable IT to strategically
manage energy, capital resources and process efficiency

• Aggregate real-time operational data from multiple systems

• Use risk-adjusted values for accurate visibility into capacity and

remaining headroom

• Delay capital expenditure by ensuring resources are sized and used

correc tly to fully utilize existing infrastructure

Monitoring and Control

Managing Physical

Assets and Resources

Provides insight into the current state and consumption trends for the
data center based on analysis of historical usage patterns.

• Economically plan expansion/consolidation projects

• Understand which resources, inlcuding virtual resources, will become

limitations for future growth

• Project “time remaining” for all data center infrastructure capacities

• Identify infrastructure in the context of discrete business-unit

categories and spot underutilized rack space

Managing People

and Processes

Liebert SiteScan™ Web and Liebert Nform™ Aperture® Configuration Manager Aperture® Infrastructure Process Manager

Uses a network of microprocessor-based
control modules to monitor and control
precision cooling, power, UPS and other critical
equipment.

• Allows for quick equipment assessment and

corrective action, with real-time monitoring
and control

• Offers many levels of graphic reporting for

customized views of supported equipment

• Tailors alarm management and reporting to

meet site needs

Models the entire physical environment to
effectively manage relationships between IT
and facilities assets.

• Interactive repository of every component

including equipment, space (rack/
floor), power, cooling, network/ storage
connectivity

• Data-driven graphics including top-down and

elevation (rack) views

• Detailed analysis, inventory and planning

reports to understand current resource usage
of resources and plan efficiencies

Best practice processes for equipment
installation, moves and decommissions to
improve efficiency and reduce time-to-market.

• Web-based, configurable work-process

platform

• Integration with configuration repository to

reduce risks associated with changes

• Audit trail of all changes

INTEGRATED INFORMATION

Aperture® Integration Manager

Standardized Web services interface enables organization to integrate Aper ture solutions with other IT management systems.

• SOAP-based integration layer and tools

• Support for data- and process-driven interfaces to Aperture solutions

• Upgradeable, transaction-driven architecture reduces cost of ownership

A Day in the Life with Aperture

®

IT Executive/Management

Senior executives demonstrate the strategic
value of IT with proactive forecasting aligned
with business goals, greater control over data
center operations and continuous uptime.

• Real-time and risk-adjusted operational

data facilitates accurate resource planning
to reduce capital expenditure and optimize
resource efficiency

• Common system of record for equipment

in multiple data centers delivers
comprehensive, accurate information for
planning and managing data center resources

• Standardized processes provide greater

predictability and control while increasing IT’s
ability to respond quickly to changing business
conditions

• Real-time monitoring of all data center

resources provides immediate insight to
improve resource allocation, energy
efficiency, usage projections and capacity
planning

Data Center Management

Data center management gains increased
credibility with reliable service delivered
with a high degree of professionalism and
standardization.

• Desktop access to accurate, real-time and

unified information

• High-level dashboard for an intuitive

snapshot that enables a quick assessment of
infrastructure performance

• Detailed visibility into actual capacities of

physical and virtual assets with in-depth
reports on current state and future needs

• Standard process for installing equipment to

reduce errors and shorten installation time

• Audit trail of everyone entering the
data center

Data Center Facilities Management

Facilities management ensures data center
uptime and forestalls outages with accurate
insight into power loads.

• Power readings automatically gathered

for each device and incorporated into the
planning model

• Single, trusted system of record for
automatically generated breaker
schedules

• Outage analysis with details of impact on

equipment, including business criticality
and contact information

“ A major barrier to improved energy efficiency is the difficulty of collecting data on the energy

consumption of individual components of data centers and the lack of data collection on many data

centers overall.”

– US Environmental Protection Agency

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