Data Center Operations Vice President
User Solution Data Sheet
“Built on a
middleware
foundation, the Trellis
platform is designed
to be modular and
scalable to support
midsized data center
environments as a
simple, easy-to-use,
deploy and manage
solution. At the same
time, it can also scale
to meet the needs
of very large data
centers and address
all DCIM challenges
in a comprehensive
manner.”
– Gini Agee, Research
Director Data Center Trends
and Strategy, IDC
Infrastructure Management &
Monitoring for
Business-Critical ContinuityTM
Challenges Faced
Data center operations VPs are responsible for the daunting task
of maintaining the highest level of availability and ensuring that
service level agreements are met.
The Trouble with Managing Multiple
Data Centers
Many data center operations VPs are tasked
with managing both legacy and newer data
centers with varying levels of sophistication
and personnel expertise. In this environment,
they struggle with avoiding downtime, ensuring
consistency and trying to maximize energy usage
across all their data centers.
Data center operations VPs try to increase their
efficiency and reduce risks while trying to control
operation costs. At times, they find themselves
managing the critical infrastructure with multiple,
disparate products, which:
• Prevent the adoption of standardized
processes across the business
• Cause an inability to accurately plan for future
growth
• Hinder coordination across the organization
How the Trellis™ Solution Can Help
The whole product design of the Trellis™ platform
allows data center operations VPs the ability to
improve ease of deployment and maintenance,
which reduces the total cost of ownership and
allows for greater performance and scalability.
The result is greater infrastructure agility to
support virtualization, cloud or IT automation
initiatives.
With the Trellis platform, VPs are able to easily
share the entire picture with an audience.
The whole business benefits from the ability
to standardize processes in the physical
infrastructure and improve the efficiency in
overall IT operations.
Data Center Operations Vice President
Infrastructure Management & Monitoring
for Business-Critical ContinuityTM
User Solution Data Sheet
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Metrics – Users are able to accurately
understand real-time energy consumption
(kW/hours) and the cost of operating
subsystems through a unified dashboard in the
Trellis platform. They can also capture current
and historical efficiency metrics (PUE and DCIE)
to ensure compliance to Green Grid’s efficiency
metrics for data centers. Data center operations
VPs have access to metrics on number of
changes being made, amount of space
consumed by different groups, who has what
and how much, etc.—driving improvement for
the entire business.
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Coordination – Data center operations VPs can
ensure IT and facilities teams are on the same
page, reducing risks of unplanned downtime
and other issues brought by lack of coordination.
The Trellis platform also helps them fully comply
with auditing requirements by allowing them to
access a detailed record of changes made and
the personnel accountable for the specific tasks.
With a unified view of the infrastructure, IT and
facilities teams can see what has and is occurring in
the data center, intelligently decide on the best plan,
take the right action and accurately assess the impact.
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Visibility – The Trellis™ platform allows data
center operations VPs to see everything that
is going on—all in one location. Not only do
they have access to high-level reporting and
analytics that provide visibility into capacity
usage and energy, users are able to view these
metrics in real time.
Actively measure and manage
energy usage
SEE
Top Three Reasons Data
Center Operations VPs Need
the Trellis™ Platform
SEE
Identify and reduce stranded
capacity
Manage multiple
departments
AC T I O N
AC T
See. Visualize all critical
data center information
and know the real
situation (in real time or
historical trending).
Decide. Leverage the
ability of theTrellis
platform to analyze
data center status
information and deliver
deep insight into
the interplay among
efficiency, availability
and capacity to
make well-grounded
decisions.
Act. Take actions
with confidence
and immediately
validate the effects
when assessing the
impact on data center
infrastructure.
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