Power Assure and ABB Collaborate on Data Center Enterprise Management. Santa Clara, Calif. - December 12, 2011- Power Assure, Inc, a data center energy management solutions provider, and ABB, a global leader in power and automation technologies, announced that ABB will integrate Power Assure EM/4 data center energy management software in the ABB Decathlon™ Data Center Enterprise Management (DCEM) product and services offering.
The ABB Decathlon suite of products and services provides Data Center Enterprise Management - management of energy usage across multiple sites to maximize efficiency - with true enterprise visibility and reporting. Together with Decathlon, Power Assure EM/4 software services deliver real-time monitoring, analytics and automation, allowing IT to make appropriate adjustments in response to facility-side energy demands.
“By integrating Power Assure EM/4 software solutions, ABB can offer our customers a new level of automated control over their operations,” said Eric Olson, ABB product manager for Decathlon. “Decathlon links IT capacity with cooling and power capacity to move processing where it needs to be to reduce costs, ensure business continuity and improve quality of service.”
“We are excited to work with ABB on this leading edge solution,” said Brad Wurtz, president and CEO, Power Assure. “Our mutual customers benefit from integrating real-time facilities and IT data to react automatically through power capping, load shifting and by dynamically adjusting IT capacity when there is a power or cooling failure.”
The Power Assure EM/4 software services will be sold as part of the ABB Decathlon DCEM solution which provides:
Power Assure software services provide actionable, real-time and historical insight into energy usage, utilization and other key performance indicators (KPIs) for data centers as well as the means to analyze and automate energy efficiency while maintaining application service levels.
About Power Assure (www.powerassure.com) Power Assure is a leading developer of Data Center Energy Management software for large enterprises, government agencies, and managed service providers. Power Assure’s solutions provide visibility, intelligence, analytics and automation to help CIOs, IT directors, and facilities managers optimize capacity, service levels, and power consumption within and across data centers. Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, the company is privately held with funding from ABB Technology Ventures, Dominion Energy Technologies, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Good Energies, Point Judith Capital, and a grant from the Department of Energy. Power Assure partners include ABB, Cisco, Dell, IBM, Intel, In-Q-Tel, Raritan, UL and VMware.
About ABB (www.abb.com) ABB is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 130,000 people.
# # # Power Assure and EM/4 are registered trademarks of Power Assure, Inc. Decathlon is a trademark of ABB Inc. All product names and references remain the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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