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APC and MGE UPS Systems that combined to form a €2.4 billion ($3.5 billion) Critical Power and Cooling Services business unit of Schneider Electric announces that its Capacity Manager product received a Gold Award as one of the three best capacity and power management products released in 2007. (Tech Target SearchDataCenter.com 2007 “Products of the Year” awards.)

On the basis of the editors of SearchDataCenter.com, a team of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants judgments Capacity Manager was chosen in eight categories.

The period that was taken to determine who was the winner comprised period between October 31, 2006 and November 1, 2007.Capacity Manager calculates physical infrastructure capabilities, consumption of space and power on the basis of using live operating data. The information on current space, cooling, power utilisation, and requirements of new servers and the available physical infrastructure, enable users to determine how much data centre capacity is available, it gives more opportunity to track sources.

According to the APC.com press release, user of capacity planning software quoted in the SearchDataCenter.com award article.:

“Finding out you have a problem two months prior to having a problem is not soon enough. Capital planning and readiness takes nine to 18 months, so a system that gives us a trending method is a huge advantage for us,” “With Capacity Manager’s unique modeling engine, combined with live operating data, it is now possible for data centre managers to simulate and predict the impact that resource changes in a data centre will have on the cooling and power infrastructure,” said John DiPippo, APC’s senior vice president of Data Center Solutions, Service and Software.

“It is critical that data centre professionals right-size the capacity supply with the capacity demand. With the trends towards increasing power densities, the likelihood that hot spots or power overloading will occur from data centre changes is driving the need for intelligent software applications such as Capacity Manager. Additionally, the software’s robust inventory management tool and complementary change workflow application give data centre managers unprecedented visibility and control of their data centre infrastructure.”