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“ We … realised that the DCIM market really is no longer enterprise data centres , it ’ s this hybrid environment . Our theory was to focus on , ‘ how do I get visibility everywhere as well as mitigating the pain points from before ?’ We also recognised the need for service and support and that the ecosystem had a much greater role to play in this hybrid environment than maybe you would ’ ve thought in the traditional enterprise ,” he explains , noting that Schneider ’ s reevaluation of its position in the DCIM space had almost seen it exit the market entirely . Instead , he continued , the company completely scrapped its existing DCIM services and built a new architecture from scratch . “ Firstly , we concluded that in this hybrid environment there are always going to be challenges that customers are facing , and we needed to help them address those challenges . Secondly , there were new technologies available that were not available when we originally started DCIM . Namely , we wanted to rebuild from the ground up for the cloud .”
The result is EcoStruxure , Schneider ’ s cloud-based , vendor-neutral monitoring , management and planning platform .
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It has never been easier to see and analyse all the data being collected in our data centre ”
— Tom Healy , Comcast
OCTOBER 2020