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Physical
Infrastructure
Management
Solutions
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Physical Infrastructure Challenges
Require Innovative Solutions
The Need for In-Depth Physical Infrastructure Visibility.
With increased scrutiny on an organization’s ability to be agile and responsive while at
the same time reducing CAPEX and OPEX related expenses, data center infrastructure
management is becoming progressively more important. As technologies continue to advance,
system-wide consolidation and convergence of underutilized assets helps to improve
ef ciencies and conserve scarce resources in the data center and throughout the building.
Additional factors that are driving the need for advanced physical to logical systems visibility
include power, cooling, and space challenges which impact provisioning, uptime, and costs.
Faster identi cation and resolution of network problems and security threats is then essential
to achieving optimal availability and agility in the data center and managing business risk.
Maintaining network security has traditionally meant restricting points of network access
(both wired and wireless) and protecting the network infrastructure from data corruption,
viruses or physical damage. Additionally, new industry standards, Information Technology
Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) process
requirements, and regulations are forcing organizations to improve strategies for safer and
more secure data transmission. All while user access to mission critical applications must
remain uninterrupted.
Organizations will continue to face these and other stringent demands. Due to the complexities
of these demands on network infrastructures, a uni ed approach to physical and logical
systems architecture is imperative to pave the way for innovative solutions that address
requirements for reduced risk, lower costs, increased agility, and enhanced sustainability.
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Maximize Your Physical Infrastructure Resources
Overcome Challenges. Optimize Resources.
Organizations have the opportunity to ensure their physical infrastructure is adequate to support mission-critical
applications into more valuable assets by addressing a range of rapidly changing needs:
• Automated documentation of dynamic environments • Enhanced systems security
• System agility/responsiveness • Sustainability
• Space limitations • Reclamation of underutilized resources
• Greater performance requirements • Real-time data and service delivery
As consolidation and convergence continue at rapid rates, the potential for business risk increases proportionately.
For example, environments with frequent moves, adds, and changes require accurate and timely documentation to
support tracking the allocation and utilization of critical IT assets to mitigate costs associated with tracking down
lost or misplaced assets.
This collection and consolidation of IT asset attributes, including location, connectivity, power and environmental
information is critical in order to maximize utilization of IT resources and support accelerated root-cause diagnosis
during downtime and maintain real-time views into current and future capacity allocation. Data center infrastructure
management solutions provide your team with the visibility required to anticipate and prevent failure against service
level agreements (SLAs) by providing you with accurate and timely physical infrastructure information to effectively
manage your environment. It also provides visibility into historical trends and predictive analytics required to
ef ciently utilize scarce data center resources and optimize operations.
A uni ed approach to infrastructure architecture offers organizations distinct business advantages:
• Accurate and dynamic representation of your IT assets across the full lifecycle through
automated documentation and processes in support of ITIL and ITSM initiatives
• Greater visibility, tracking, and control of critical systems that identify, monitor, and report on
physical layer information
• A scalable, enterprise-class platform that enables exibility of deployment with a
modular-based approach to solving data center physical layer visibility challenges
• Process-driven integration with asset management, network management and service desk
platforms providing single-pane-of-glass visibility and control
• Access to real-time information of connectivity, power usage, environmental conditions, and
space utilization
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Panduit’s Uni ed Physical Infrastructure:
A Guiding Vision
Key Bene ts
• Leverage real-time information to enhance
visibility, security, safety, and compliance
across the enterprise
• Reduce infrastructure and systems
complexities while increasing functionality
and manageability of mission-critical
capabilities
• Improve productivity and customer
satisfaction by delivering higher levels
of availability and reliability
• Converge and optimize critical systems,
leveraging and reusing existing assets/
investments for maximum ROI
• Drive tangible infrastructure and business
process improvements while reducing
operational costs and mitigating risk
• Create a sustainable infrastructure
for securing energy ef ciencies and
establishing global best practices
For a Smarter, Uni ed Business Foundation
The growing interdependence of systems and applications, and the increased demands that
they place on physical infrastructures, requires the integration of traditionally disparate and
proprietary systems. This trend is dramatically changing infrastructure design, management
strategies, and effective synchronization of critical systems, opening the door for seamless
convergence and interoperability of all core business systems.
Panduit provides exible, end-to-end solutions for the physical infrastructure that drive
operational and nancial advantages, allowing businesses to minimize risk and heighten
agility. Tailored by industry and customized by application, Panduit solutions span the
core systems necessary to transform a business, from data center to facility operations
to next generation intelligent buildings.
Panduit has developed the industry’s most comprehensive and holistic approach to a
Uni ed Physical Infrastructure and can help enterprises align, converge and optimize
critical systems – communication, computing, control, power and security – to build a
smarter, uni ed business foundation.
This approach enables the use of a service-oriented architecture framework and is
designed to deliver tangible infrastructure and business process improvements for
increased functionality, interoperability and manageability of mission critical operations
across the enterprise.
Uni ed Physical Infrastructure
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Empower Your Enterprise with End-to-End
Data Center Infrastructure Management and Visibility
Panduit’s Physical Infrastructure Management System
As converging data center and building systems technologies continue to evolve and become more complex, so
too are the demands that they place on physical infrastructures. Today’s networks are the backbone of organizations,
automating business operations and processes to provide security and deliver greater service to customers.
In response, organizations are increasingly adopting a formal service management approach and mindset. A uni ed,
intelligent, integrated software and hardware approach involves de ning mission-critical business services, mapping
the IT (e.g., servers, switches, software applications) and facilities (e.g., power, cooling, cabling) components that
support them, and effectively monitoring and managing these components and systems. In this way SLAs can be
assured, resource utilization can be optimized, compliance can be simpli ed, and operations can be made more
cost-ef cient and sustainable.
Panduit’s unique and robust Physical Infrastructure Management System combines industry leading software and
intelligent hardware to empower enterprises to meet current and future requirements for:
Asset Tracking, Allocation, and Utilization: Accurate documentation of IT asset location minimizes lost assets and
accelerates the process of server provisioning and decommissioning with on- and off-network asset tracking,
minimizing the expenses associated with frequent asset inventory audits and lost/misplaced equipment.
Convergence: With built-in resources that visually monitor, map, and automate network and data center infrastructure
operations maintaining control of converging systems and applications has become much easier to manage.
Security and Reliability: Real-time monitoring of patch eld connectivity, power utilization, and environmental
conditions allows for administrators to be noti ed of unauthorized changes, operational disruptions, or security risks.
Operational Ef ciency: Scalability and modularity of systems enable cost-effective growth as business and market
needs continue to change. With access to real-time and historical data, you are able to more effectively make
decisions to drive better resource utilization of IT assets, power and cooling resources, and data center space.
Capacity Planning: In order to effectively and ef ciently manage your data center operations, your team needs
access to aggregated data around available power, space, cooling, and IT asset information to predict limitations
that will impact your business. Predictive tools that holistically provide visibility and analytics are rapidly becoming
a must-have for data center managers.
Uni ed Physical Infrastructure
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Panduit’s Physical Infrastructure Management System
Physical Infrastructure Manager™ (PIM™) Software Platform
Panduit’s Physical Infrastructure Manager™ (PIM™) Software Platform is a data center infrastructure management tool for
tracking the allocation and utilization of critical IT assets and their related attributes, including location, connectivity, power
and environmental information, in order to maximize utilization of IT resources and support real-time views into current and
future capacity allocation.
This software works seamlessly with Panduit’s PanView iQ
devices to support management of both existing and new data center and extended enterprise environments. This visibility
enables organizations to monitor and catalog complete network performance for enhanced control. When you combine the
capabilities of PIM
have a complete end-to-end physical to logical view of your entire supported infrastructure that improves business service
management. Additionally, the PIM
• Access to vital real-time physical layer information anytime, from anywhere in the world
• Documentation and event logs to support compliance with industry standards and audits
• A exible and scalable solution to support existing and new data center/enterprise environments
• Reporting and analytics to help optimize your data center’s performance and compliance with service level agreements
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Software Platform with network management systems software for bi-directional process integration, you
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Software Platform empowers your team with:
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(PViQ™) System Hardware as well as select third-party hardware
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Increase Reliability
• Centralized monitoring of IT assets, management of
their related attributes, and improved visibility and
execution of moves, adds, and changes (MACs) in
remote facilities
• Consolidated views of critical IT asset attributes
to support real-time views into current and future
capacity allocation
• Streamlined record retrieval of network
con gurations or infrastructure operations
through automated documentation
• Improved troubleshooting and resolution
of connectivity issues, power disruptions,
and temperature concerns through real-time
identi cation and alerts to IT administrators
Lower Costs
• Improved operational ef ciencies through
visualization of physical and logical
infrastructure resources
• Reduced capital costs using asset tracking to
nd and reclaim available cabinet/rack space
and underutilized network devices
• Improved access to centralized, accurate data
and relevant analytics required to create predictive
capacity planning scenarios to drive improved
use of available resources
• Scalable, modular solution that offers
cost-effective growth as business needs evolve
• Lowered cost of server provisioning through
earlier tracking and planning for physical deployment
of the assets utilizing a centralized repository and
integration with work order management systems
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Physical Infrastructure Management System Components
PanView iQ (PViQ™) System Hardware.
Panduit’s PanView iQ (PViQ™) System Hardware combines
industry-leading innovation of intelligent cabinet appliances with
complete system management through the PIM™ Software Platform.
This combination of active patch panels, cabling, power outlet units,
and environmental sensors provides a complete data center solution,
that enables a continuous, local, and remote visibility of connectivity,
power usage asset tracking and utilization, and environment conditions
within a data center...in real-time.
Leveraging the full breadth of Panduit’s physical infrastructure expertise
and uni ed approach, Panduit’s PViQ™ System Hardware is designed to
seamlessly interoperate to deliver real-time monitoring and management
of relevant information.
PViQ™ Patch Panels – PViQ
functionality, scalability and consideration for rack space. The innovative
patch panel design provides opportunities for phased installations that allow
an organization to install passive connectivity now and upgrade to a fully
managed system at a later time. Available in at and angled solutions for
UTP and STP copper connectivity, as well as tray-based con gurations for
ber connectivity. This hardware works with the PIM™ Software Platform
Connectivity Module.
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Patch Panels have been developed with
PViQ™ Intelligent Modules – Two module types that can sense connections
and/or disconnections from each port and relay status information back to
the PIM™ Platform database. The PViQ™ Panel Manager consolidates patch
eld scanning and management functions into a single, removable module.
It contains an embedded web interface for remote management and access
to connectivity information. The PViQ™ Expansion Module cost-effectively
expands the scanning and management capabilities of the panel manager
to additional patch panels.
PViQ™ Copper and Fiber Patch Cords (Interconnect and Cross-Connect) –
Interconnect patch cords support connectivity from non-PViQ™ enabled
ports (switches, servers, etc.) to a PViQ™ Patch Panel and are offered in
basic and enhanced versions. The enhanced version improves accuracy of
patching and tracing through LEDs integrated directly into the patch cord
plug. Cross-connect patch cords manage and map the patch eld between
two PViQ™ Patch Panels.
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The Panduit Difference
Realize Bene ts Across the Enterprise.
Panduit provides the ability to align the physical
infrastructure to the logical systems infrastructure
by creating reference architectures that are mapped
to industry-wide best practices.
All of Panduit’s solutions meet or surpass rigorous
quality management standards to assure compliance
with industry requirements. Our unique, robust partner
ecosystem combined with our lifecycle services offers
innovative modeling, predictable execution, and
operational excellence.
As the only vendor in the industry with a fully integrated
physical infrastructure solution portfolio, Panduit enables
enterprises to Connect, Manage, and Automate all
communication, computing, control, power, and security
systems. This comprehensive approach to infrastructure
design, deployment, and management allows bene ts
to be realized across the entire enterprise.
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PanView iQ™ System Hardware (cont.)
PViQ™ Networked Power Outlet Units (POUs) – PViQ
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Networked
POUs have been engineered to safely and ef ciently manage
and distribute power to multiple devices through a single power
connector to enhance power management functionality within the
data center. These intelligent POUs communicate real-time power
utilization information and provide noti cation of faults or power
disruptions to quickly identify and resolve power issues, nd and
reclaim available or underutilized power capacity, and automate
collection of real-time and accurate power information. This
hardware works with the PIM™ Software Platform
Power Module.
PViQ™ Environmental Sensors (POUs) – PViQ
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Environmental
Sensors are available as embedded components of PViQ™
POUs, as well as externally placed sensors to measure and trend
environmental conditions such as temperature and humidity levels,
at the cabinet level. These intelligent sensors transmit real-time
environmental information, providing noti cation of exceeded
thresholds to quickly identify and resolve issues, identify hot and
cold spots in your data center and automate collection of real-time
and accurate environmental information. This hardware works with
the PIM™ Software Platform Power Module.
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Real-World Solutions to Ensure
the Success of Our Customers
With a proven reputation for excellence and technology innovation, a robust ecosystem of global
partners, and long-term alliances with top industry leaders, Panduit is a valuable, trusted partner
offering strategic vision and real-world solutions to ensure the success of our customers.
Innovative Technology Leadership
Panduit is an industry leader in developing innovative technology solutions that meet the rapidly
evolving needs of our customers around the world. Our commitment to continued leadership
is supported by signi cant ongoing investment, dedicated manufacturing facilities, strategic
technology alliances, and collaborative R&D with other industry leaders.
Enhance Your
Physical Infrastructure.
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Global Business & Commitment
Panduit’s ongoing commitment to excellence and our technology alliances with key industry leaders
such as Cisco Systems, EMC, Emerson, and IBM enables our highly skilled and knowledgeable
global sales, systems engineering and technical support teams to engage with critical customer
challenges that range from initial problem determination all the way to resolution. Local specialists,
trained to global standards and competencies, provide consistent regional support that brings value
to local business. Our global value chain, which combines manufacturing, distribution, and service,
provides prompt responses to customer-related issues, and streamlines procurement and delivery
to any global destination.
Best-in-Class Partner Ecosystem
Panduit employs a consultative approach to identify customer needs and engage appropriate
partners in a collaborative fashion to serve our customers. Panduit’s robust ecosystem of architects,
consultants, engineers, designers, systems integrators, contractors, and distributors offer a full
portfolio of lifecycle services. Our partners are trained on relevant services to Plan & Design,
Build & Deploy, and Maintain & Operate to deliver predictable and measurable results.
Worldwide Alliances
Panduit has established long-term strategic alliances with top global industry leaders such as
Cisco Systems, EMC, HP, IBM, Liebert, and Rockwell Automation to develop and integrate
innovative, holistic solutions for our customers. We continually invest in relationships and
resources for solving our customers’ greatest business challenges.
Eco-Sustainability & Global Citizenship
With a long-standing commitment to environmental excellence, Panduit continually develops and
implements solutions designed to protect, replenish, and restore the world in which we live and
operate. This commitment is demonstrated by Panduit’s LEED-certi ed new world headquarters
and future sustainable building plans using its own revolutionary Uni ed Physical Infrastructure
vision to enable convergence of critical systems for driving energy ef ciency.
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