UK’s newest and most innovative entrant to the DCIM market uses DatacenterDynamics as launchpad to announce a new channel partnership with on365, as well as new products.
Concurrent Thinking has announced on365 as one of its first channel partners. The specialist provider of energy efficient data centre and critical physical infrastructure services for public sector, SME and corporate clients across the UK and Europe will provide sales, installation and support services for Concurrent Thinking’s DCIM appliance-based DCIM solutions.
The agreement was signed by Concurrent Thinking founder and CTO, Michael Rudgyard and on365 managing director, Colin Richardson. Michael Rudgyard said, “As an engineering-led business, on365 has an enviable reputation in data centre infrastructure design and build. We believe that our DCIM solutions offer a great opportunity for the company to add value to the services they supply to their data centre customers: in particular, by helping them to achieve on-going energy savings and to lower operational costs.”
Colin Richardson said, “PUE is a good first step for data centre managers looking to improve the efficiency of their facilities. However, much greater cost and energy savings are available if companies take an end-to-end approach to efficiency. This requires them to look at how well they use their IT equipment in order to deliver end-user IT services, not only the physical infrastructure that is needed to support this equipment. Concurrent Thinking’s appliance-based approach offers a user-friendly and scalable DCIM solution which we believe will be welcomed.”
With strong growth predicted during 2012 for DCIM solutions, Concurrent Thinking had earlier announced its concurrentCOMMAND and concurrentCONTROL products during the DatacenterDynamics London event.
Concurrent Thinking’s approach is to provide a single management console which interfaces with facilities management infrastructure, rack-based devices and IT systems in order to identify a wide range of energy-saving strategies across the data centre. Their products then provide the necessary tools to help implement these strategies, providing a significant short-term ROI for its customers.
The new DCIM solution is delivered on hardware appliances in order to provide a scalable infrastructure, as well as for ease of configuration, upgrade and support. Within this framework, concurrentCOMMAND is a 1U appliance that acts as a portal, providing a powerful web 2.0 interface through which users can identify potential inefficiencies in their data centre and then action change – either manually or through a number of automated tools which are provided. The 0U concurrentCONTROL appliance acts as a bridge between the physical and logical world, and can be deployed in anything from one to thousands of racks. Each device supports up to 16 wired sensors and two Ethernet networks. It is responsible for collecting and processing information on the physical environment, server health and IT utilisation before delivering consolidated data to the concurrentCOMMAND platform.