Product Announcement: Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure IT Expert Makes Its Way to Europe

Schneider Electric recently announced the continued roll out of EcoStruxure IT Expert, its cloud-based data center infrastructure management solution, with its release in Europe. According to Schneider Electric, IT Expert brings secure, vendor agnostic, wherever-you-go monitoring and visibility of all IoT-enabled physical infrastructure assets

As part of Schneider Electric's EcoStruxure architecture, IT Expert operates with all IoT-enabled physical infrastructure assets like secure power and cooling — including the new, cloud-enabled Smart-UPS with APC SmartConnect. IT Expert addresses the data center industry's need to simplify how data centers, distributed IT, and local edge environments are managed. Providing proactive recommendations and consolidated performance and alarming data, IT Expert can significantly reduce alarm noise and improve overall site resiliency, the company reports.

Potential Benefits

According to Schneider Electric, the key benefits of EcoStruxure IT and its applications include:

• Global visibility across the hybrid ecosystem regardless of location
• Secure updatesof mass configuration and firmware in a more simple and faster process
• Vendor neutraldata capture of device information, smart alarms, and monitoring of all connected devices through an open system
• Subscription model ensures the ease of deployment and updating for any size IT or data center environment
• 24/7 remote monitoring options through our partners with EcoStruxure IT for Partners or through Schneider Electric Service Bureau with EcoStruxure Asset Advisor. The Service Bureau or partner helps troubleshoot anddispatch service teams, reducing meantime to repair and improving system availability and performance.

To date, 1,400 customers are connected on the EcoStruxure IT platform. managing 140,000 assets. Each day, 300 million data points are captured, helping to modernize how customer data centers are being managed, operated, and maintained.