SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rackwise, Inc. (OTCBB:RACK) (the “Company”) announced today that its Software as a Service (“SaaS”) DCiM™ offering has been selected by SimpleHelix, the Huntsville, Alabama-based eCommerce hosting company, to plan, manage, and optimize their expanding IT infrastructure that currently provides hosting for more than 12,000 customers worldwide.
Specializing in eCommerce hosting, SimpleHelix needed a data center infrastructure management tool that was easy to learn, install, and use, that integrated with Excel, and whose price performance met the needs of the growing company. SimpleHelix selected the DCiM™ solutions offered by Rackwise, Inc. in large part for its open, non-proprietary, inclusive approach incorporating user-friendly drag and drop asset tracking and management tools built on the Visio platform.
Steve Shickles, President of SimpleHelix, stated, “We were at an inflection point where we needed more robust information technology infrastructure tracking and management capabilities for our eCommerce hosting business. After researching alternatives, we were thrilled with the Rackwise, Inc. offering. Their solution offered a powerful, easy-to-use drag and drop tracking ability and, with over 30,000 devices supported, we’re confident that their service will more than meet our needs. As an additional benefit, the ROI capabilities provided by the service will enable us optimize and more critically manage our IT infrastructure, including eliminating unneeded equipment. Finally, the Rackwise, Inc. pricing model was the simplest and most straightforward that we found.”
Guy A. Archbold, Rackwise Chief Executive Officer, added, “We are extremely pleased to have been selected by SimpleHelix to track, plan, and manage their growing hosting information technology infrastructure and are delighted that as SimpleHelix researched the field, Rackwise, Inc. stood out for its features, rapid installation and time to value as well as its effective pricing structure.”
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rackwise, Inc. (OTCBB:RACK.OB) (“Rackwise”) announced today that it has executed a multi-year software integration and license agreement (“Agreement”) with Intel Corporation to enhance and co-market the RACKWISE® Data Center Manager (“DCM”) software product. Under the Agreement, Rackwise will integrate device level, real-time data collection and monitoring functionality of the Intel® DCM software into the RACKWISE® DCM product. The resulting solution will provide revolutionary data aggregation, visibility and reporting not previously available in the industry to maximize data center and IT infrastructure operational efficiency and cost containment.
The Agreement calls for a technology collaboration to embed Intel® DCM software into the RACKWISE® DCM product, offering customers Data Center Infrastructure Management (“DCIM”) software solutions with real-time data monitoring and reporting capabilities at unparalleled granular levels. Advantages of the targeted offerings include expanded real-time power and thermal monitoring, enhanced failure analysis and extended visibility and analytics at the device, rack, floor and all other levels of the data center infrastructure.
Doug MacRae, Rackwise Senior Vice President of Product Development, commented, “Integrating Intel® DCM functionalities and features into the RACKWISE® DCM product will deliver critical data aggregation, visibility and reporting, enabling management to optimize data center efficiencies to achieve maximum financial savings.”
Jeff Klaus, Director, Data Center Solutions, Intel, added, “The Intel® Data Center Manager combined with RACKWISE® DCM helps provide data center managers and executives extensive visibility into device level energy usage and thermal data which will enhance capacity planning, forecasting, performance monitoring and energy management for significant operational savings. RACKWISE® DCM ’s extensive visualization, reporting and analytics platform combined with information from Intel® DCM will give data center personnel an unprecedented level of intelligent access and control over the physical and virtual assets within the data center.”
Guy A. Archbold, Rackwise Chief Executive Officer, concluded, “We are extremely pleased and proud to join in collaboration with Intel®, a leader in worldwide IT and computing innovation, to develop and introduce this ground-breaking capability for the Data Center Infrastructure Management market. Integrating device level data aggregation exclusively within our asset visualization, modeling, and analytics functions will provide data center and infrastructure technology professionals powerful, state-of-the-art tools for real-time data management to maximize operational efficiencies and economic benefits.”
See also The GeoTeam's speculative buy screen. RACK was added to this list on 10/10/2011
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