Optinum Path VisualDataCenter vs Schneider Electric EcoStruxure IT comparison

Optinum Path VisualDataCenter is vendor in the DCIM software space by the research analyst community. Its unified platform is designed to aggregate multiple sources of asset data, reduce data center operational expenses and improve system and application reliability by providing a broad set of features used across multiple roles within the data center environment. Visual Data Center combines data monitoring and management for facility, IT and security assets to provide a view of the facility and a centralized software solution to manage these groups of assets. With information collected from each device type and a repository assets in the model library, users can track usage, utilization, capacity limits and their power, space and cooling concerns.

Schneider Electric StruxureWare Portal provides transparency to data center key performance indicators and business metrics, displaying customizable information for a high-level overview of data center operations. The Portal makes it easy to share information with relevant colleagues or external agencies, providing a shared platform and bridging the gap between Facitlities, IT and the C-level stakeholders. The StruxureWare Portal is configured via a choice of predefined or custom portlets, through an integrated, easy-to-use configurator, and assists in easily adding interactive charts and graphs to the display. Built on an open platform, the user-friendly interface allows anyone to quickly configure a dashboard showing key information. The open source environment, based on the Liferay platform, provides the option to display web content and metrics from several applications, such as StruxureWare Resource Advisor, StruxureWare Data Center Operation, StruxureWare Data Center Expert, StruxureWare Power Monitoring Expert and StruxureWare Cooling Monitoring Expert.