APC 'join' with Microsoft

APC said it had joined the Microsoft System Center Alliance. Collaboration both intended to enhance and provide support for monitoring critical physical infrastructure by integrating InfraStruXure Central with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007.

APC Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 enables the integration of systems and monitoring services in multi-vendor environment. Integration of data center management suite with APC peration Manager System Center 2007 Microsoft is expected to provide the ability to oversee and manage the physical infrastructure, including electricity, cooling systems, space and security, and provide a comprehensive view of the 'health' servers, applications, and client in the data center.

"Connecting the physical environment and the server with the APC Management Pack by Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 enables customers to better understand the impact of changes in the physical layer of business applications," said Andy Low, country manager of APC Indonesia through written statements, Saturday (12 / 9 / 2009).

Through this cooperation, continued Andy, APC and Microsoft is committed to deliver a strong solution, efficient in terms of energy and environmental costs for IT.

Microsoft System Center is a series of products and industry-leading management solutions that help customers manage virtual and physical environments in the entire IT data centers, tool, and the client computer.

The purpose of the System Center Alliance is to provide an online community to help its partners to more easily collaborate in creating solutions for System Center, as well as providing the media to convey information about these solutions to customers and sales channels.