2013 Data Center 100: 20 Data Center Tools Providers
The Data Center 100
Building a data center is one thing. Making it work right is a completely different business, one that requires a variety of tools. Those tools are primarily software applications that help monitor data center functions to ensure power, cooling and other variables are as expected. More importantly, those tools notify administrators when something is not working properly. Many also provide data on potential fixes or, in the case of the most sophisticated, automatically take the required actions to keep the data center running smoothly. The more simple tools can be a good way for solution providers to start a data center management business, but the sophisticated tools are best left to experts.
Check out the top tools providers from this year's Data Center 100.
1E
CEO: Sumir Karayi
1E helps identify and eliminate unused IT equipment and software licenses while optimizing data centers, with solutions for measuring, monitoring and increasing server efficiency; managing PC power use; and reclaiming and recycling licenses.
Alber
CEO: Derek Alber
Alber specializes in storage battery monitoring and test equipment, with tools including test and diagnostic products, data acquisition systems, continuous load units, single cell test systems and chargers, and battery-monitoring systems.
BMC Software
CEO: Robert Beauchamp
BMC's Business Service Management platform aims to simplify and automate IT processes and orchestrate business services and applications across cloud, virtual, distributed and mainframe environments to help cut costs and reduce risks.
CA
CEO: Michael Gregoire
CA develops IT management software and solutions for mainframe and physical to virtual and cloud environments, including solutions for transforming data operations into cloud offerings and for improving performance and energy efficiency.
Dell Quest
CEO: Michael Dell
Software from Dell's acquisition of Quest includes tools for monitoring and managing ERP and web-based applications, for database development and administration, for extending Microsoft infrastctures, and for virtualization and cloud management.
eG Innovations
CEO: Srinivas Ramanathan
eG Innovations develops intelligent performance-management solutions to simplify and accelerate the discovery, diagnosis, and resolution of service performance issues in virtual, cloud and physical service infrastructures.
FieldView Solutions
CEO: Fred Dirla
FieldView, a browser-based software platform, helps clients manage data centers more efficiently and demonstrate environmental and social responsibility by providing information about their facilities’ capacity, energy and space use.
Geist
President: Matt Lane
Geist designs and manufactures intelligent hardware and software for what it calls the four data center cornerstones—power, cooling, monitoring and management—with scalable systems for single cabinets, an entire enterprise and all in between.
IBM Tivoli
CEO: Ginni Rometty (IBM)
IBM Tivoli Software helps customers understand business infrastructure in realtime with a range of cloud and data center management, asset and facilities management, and endpoint and mobile device management solutions.
iTRACS
CEO: Elizabeth Given
The data center infrastructure management provider helps drive efficiency, performance and cost savings with converged physical infrastructure management, which offers a holistic view of the data center using an interactive, navigable 3-D model.
Modius
CEO: Craig Compiano
Modius software optimizes the infrastructure and operations of critical facilities, including OpenData, a vendor-neutral and scalable software application that integrates power and environmental intelligence with other management applications.
Nlyte Software
CEO: Doug Sabella
Infrastructure Lifecycle Management, a DCIM offering from Nlyte, orchestrates the end-to-end process for deploying new assets in the data center, including planning, execution and orchestration capabilities for all departments.
Panduit
CEO: John Caveney
Unified physical infrastructure solutions from Panduit deliver integrated services and complete product systems to help enterprises optimize physical infrastructures through simplification, agility and operational efficiency.
Rackwise
CEO: Guy Archbold
Rackwise provides software and services that help clients optimize and improve the management of components such as power, cooling, space, servers, networks and cables to increase the return on investment in data center infrastructures.
Raritan
CEO: Ching-I Hsu
Raritan develops hardware and software power management, infrastructure management, KVM and serial solutions, including intelligent rack PDUs, energy management software, DCIM software, and KVM-over-IP and serial-over-IP access products.
Sentilla
CEO: Mike Kaul
Sentilla provides insight into physical and virtual IT systems and facilities equipment including analysis of available headroom, usage, consumption, peak demand, and load limits of CPU, memory, storage, network and power resources.
Server Technology
CEO: Carrel Ewing
Rack-mount power distribution and monitoring solutions from Server Technology help customers manage power capacity, reduce downtime and improve energy efficiency.
SynapSense
CEO: Bart Tichelman
SynapSense's platform is a DCIM solution offering provides visibility, resiliency and energy optimization in data centers in 25-plus vertical market segments. The company engages energy utilities to help clients earn energy conservation subsidies.
Vigilent
CEO: Mark Housley
Vigilent's intelligent energy management systems for data centers, telcos and large commercial buildings includes both ready-to-install systems and managed services such as measuring cooling data in realtime.
Zyrion
CEO: Vikas Aggarwal
Integrated IT infrastructure and cloud-monitoring software developer Zyrion offers realtime, correlated, end-to-end, serviceoriented views of the performance of the entire IT infrastructure via its Zyrion Traverse integrated solution.