Getting more from your data center - energy and financially efficient

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STAMFORD, Conn., April 7, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a nationwide leader in medical education and research, has selected and installed Aperture VISTA 500 to increase its visibility into the physical aspects of its critical data center operations.

Located in Nashville, Tennessee, Vanderbilt University Medical Center has a reputation as a leader in medical education, research, and patient care in the Southeast and across the United States.

Aperture is the leading global provider of software for managing the physical infrastructure of data centers. Aperture’s VISTA 500 is an enterprise software solution that provides in-depth visibility into the physical status of data center equipment, space, power, cooling and overall capacity. It gives data center managers a complete view of power consumption, enabling them to better manage the provisioning of blade servers. The solution is relied on by more than 250 companies, including more than 50 of the Fortune 1000/Global 500.

Data center management is becoming increasingly important regardless of the industry or sector, this University is using Aperture to aid in the management of its data center operations. Being able to see the big picture, to work out where suspected inefficiencies are, as well as track back which assets, which systems belong to which business lines/user communities allowing you to establish the ‘business benefit or cost per watt’, which systems need virtualized/upgraded as they are inefficient based on the business benefit - which systems do I need to look at in terms of space, power or cooling - those DEC Alpha systems, could we not consolidate or virtualize on to newer hardware?