Schneider Electric solution for SMEs

Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, has announced InfraStruxure for Small IT, described as the first-ever offering enabling small-to-medium sized businesses to design and build their physical IT infrastructures around a comprehensive offering that includes both software and hardware.
The InfraStruxure offer, which now provides solutions ranging from small IT environments up to two megawatt data centers, was previously available only to large enterprises.
The new solution will speed the deployment, configuration and installation of IT infrastructures in small environments such as server rooms, network closets or non-dedicated spaces.
Dave Johnson, SVP home and business networks, Schneider Electric, said: "The rapid adoption of new technologies and the increasingly challenging amounts of data have made intelligent IT operations critical to businesses of all sizes — not just large corporations. However, as the industry primarily uses a component approach, current offerings do not address the growing complexity of small IT spaces that are critical. We are excited to launch the first truly comprehensive solution that consolidates vendors, reduces man-hours and enables remote device and environmental management."
The customized solution will bring together the best components necessary to address the pain points that today's small businesses face, such as pressure on human and financial resources; the increasing amount of devices accessing and heavily straining corporate networks, and the lack of space to properly deploy small, smart IT environments.
Businesses will be facilitated to design a tailored combination of UPS systems, server racks, cable management, physical security, PDUs, cooling technologies, management infrastructure and software.
The combined infrastructure and technologies will help elevate efficiency, leverage virtualization and consolidation opportunities, reduce downtime, extend the life of equipment, and slash extraneous energy consumption, waste and emergency shut downs.
The simplicity of the highly scalable solution is found in the comprehensive design tools and solution guides.