Happy Holidays!

All of us at NER wish you a very happy holiday season. We would like to thank our customers and business partners for their support in 2013 and look forward to a healthy and prosperous new year!

This year we delivered revolutionary technological advancements with our Print4 Managed Print Services and changed the way critical environments monitor and visually represent temperature with Aurora High Resolution Temperature Sensing Strips. Just wait and see what we have in store for you in 2014!

Please make a note of NER's Holiday Schedule:
- Closed Wednesday 12/25 - Merry Christmas!
- Closed Wednesday 1/1 - Happy New Year!

DCiM with Facial Recognition!

Below is an excerpt from a recent Communication from Greg Stover, NER’s Senior VP and Data Center Efficiency Expert. We would like to hear your thoughts on DCiM and where it is on your radar.

EMERSON/LIEBERT/AVOCENT NEWS:

Trellis Power System Manager (PSM) now gives deeper visualization of the power system, its utilization, and dependencies. View the data center the way that an electrical engineer looks at the data center. Users can see the complete power chain from the grid to the rack via a dynamic one-line diagram. PSM lets users document the complete power system, view capacity utilization in real-time and forecast energy consumption.

Trellis Mobile Suite App/Module adds capabilities that greatly enhance management on the floor via mobile device (iPAD/tablets etc). The app significantly simplifies inventory management; especially the process of getting the data into the tool. This unique and innovative technology reads barcodes and even has facial recognition type capabilities to identify servers for you (yes really)! Now you can take Trellis anywhere 7/24/365!

Trellis™ Platform Express Edition offers the benefits of data center infrastructure management (DCIM) in a budget friendly, streamlined and simplified delivery model. For small and medium sized businesses and/or those having difficulty understanding how DCIM will benefit their organization, the Express Edition is a bundled offering of existing Trellis platform functionality pre-configured to your requirements. Key advantages include a simplified ordering process and bundled packaging of functionality, making it quick and easy to deploy. And of course the Trellis Platform Express Edition scales and flexes as your data center needs grow.

Whether you are all-in on deploying a DCiM solution, wanting to stick your toe in the water and/or trying to understand how DCiM might impact and improve your organization, you really need to do your due diligence by evaluating Emerson’s TRELLIS PLATFORM and DCIM offering. To truly reap the benefits of DCiM you need to view it as a process, not a single point in time event. NER and its partners offer the best support, programs and pricing for the Emerson Trellis Platform. Contact Greg Stover at gstover@nerdata.com to setup a demo.

Enhanced Aurora Management System Revolutionizes Temperature Monitoring

Enterprise Edition, Sensor Grouping and Diverse Thermographic Mapping improves the user experience

 
One year ago NER Data Corporation (NER) launched  the patent-pending Aurora High Resolution Temperature Sensing Strip which changed the way critical environments monitor and visually represent temperature at the cabinet level. Today NER announced significant enhancements that bring higher levels of visualization and management to the Aurora Management System. All of the new features are included in the existing hosted (cloud-based) version and in a new Enterprise (local) version.  The Enterprise edition enables organizations to deploy and run the Management System locally on their own servers.

A new Sensor Grouping feature provides the ability to group and order sensors in any configuration. With Sensor Grouping, onscreen sensors can easily be arranged to exactly match physical strip deployments. Another notable enhancement is Diverse Thermographic Sensor Mapping. Unlike single point sensors, Aurora Strips have 8 temperature sensors that take readings at 8 height stratifications. With Diverse Thermographic Sensor Mapping, users can quickly view any single stratification on a map or can click “Scan” to automatically scroll through all of the stratifications levels.

Additional new features include:

• Improved Icon Scaling that provides better views of sensor icons when zooming in and out
• Increased Screen Resolution that allows for more sensors, list details, and “At a Glance” views to be displayed onscreen
• A Gateway Sensor List that allows users to assign specific sensors to specific gateways. 

When launched Dec. 2012, the Aurora High Resolution Temperature Sensing Strip revolutionized how facilities view temperature. The strip has eight sensors spaced vertically eight inches apart that collect readings at eight different height levels. Temperatures readings are visually displayed on the strip through high resolution LEDs that range from cool (blue) to hot (red) and a blend of 129 colors in between. Data from these readings are sent to the Management System through a gateway for trending and alerting purposes.

“There is no comparison to the visual aspect of these high resolution strips,” said Robert Huttemann, Vice President at NER. “The Management System enhancements bring that high visual aspect to the user interface along with the flexibility to model the user’s exact environment – from row to row and from top to bottom similar to a CFD.”

Huttemann further adds, “Data Centers are dynamic environments with temperature being a critical aspect, so Aurora’s instantaneous and accurate representation is invaluable when monitoring changes or validating best-practice improvements. Whether you are looking down the aisle, viewing the user interface, receiving automated alerts, or collecting trending data, with Aurora potential issues in critical spaces will not go unnoticed.”

Additional enhancements scheduled for release later this month include a New Aurora Ethernet Gateway for ModBus over IP and SNMP support. NER manufactures Aurora in the US and is currently accepting orders for immediate delivery. For more information about NER’s products and services, visit www.nerdata.com.