Touting another industry “first,” interconnection and colocation date center operator Telx announced the company has become the first colocation provider to leverage a software platform for improved data center environmental visibility and enhanced customer service.

 

According to company officials, Telx’s deployment of Aperture VISTA features began in December 2009 to better optimize its colocation facilities’ key efficiencies: equipment, space, power, cooling and connectivity.

 

In an interview with Telx CEO Eric Shepcaro (News - Alert), he said the New York City-based company was using “home grown” sequel databases previously to manage its data center visibility and configuration capabilities. The transition to Aperture’s software, he explained, is attributed to “rapid growth and a need for real-time reporting and measurement.”

 

Aperture VISTA 600 Data Center Configuration Management software from Emerson Network Power (News - Alert) provides so-called “unprecedented” data center element management visibility and configuration capabilities.

 

The partnership makes Telx the first colocation provider in the U.S. to feature this “granular level” of element visibility and management, giving colocation and data center customers the competitive edge to more accurately forecast, plan and manage networks, company officials said.

 

Shepcaro explained that the deployment of Aperture VISTA also strengthens Telx’s position in the industry as a whole.

 

“By marrying this to our power monitoring systems, Telx has increased visibility of our data center capacity and system performance,” he said. “And during 2010, our customers will benefit from having visibility into their power and interconnection inventory in real time.”

 

Using Aperture VISTA, Telx will be able to more accurately provide its colocation and data center customers with the ability to forecast, plan and manage their critical network element requirements, according to company officials. The platform will also allow for “highly efficient” connectivity provisioning capabilities for Telx customers’ growing demands for low-latency business solutions. 

 

Shepcaro said the primary benefit for Telx is improving productivity. “While there are some cost benefits such as increasing productivity of our field organization, the real benefit is improving our service delivery and time-to-revenue,” he said.

 

Company officials said that Telx will leverage Aperture VISTA to make “best-practice” decisions related to infrastructure management, enabling improved capacity planning for more than 750 leading telecommunications carriers, ISPs, content providers and enterprises currently communicating throughout its 15 North American facilities. In addition, enhanced visibility and advanced impact analysis will help customers avoid under- or over-provisioning resources, improving energy efficiency and reducing risks associated with network changes.

 

“At Telx, we’re continuously implementing innovative tools and capabilities across our facilities that enable our customers to build the best possible communication solutions for their businesses,” Shepcaro said. “Aperture Configuration Management is a powerful software tool that will help us provide real-time information and analysis our customers need to better optimize efficiency, plan and manage capacities and improve network availability. This solution will give our customers a competitive edge as they expand their data centers in 2010.”

 

Emerson Network Power’s Aperture VISTA 600 Data Center Configuration Management provides a single source for information on the data center physical infrastructure, including equipment, space, power, cooling and port connectivity, to deliver complete current-state information on data center devices and the relationships between them, company officials said.

 

Telx’s customers are a single cross-connect away from a global ecosystem of networks, reducing costs and latency and allowing direct exchanges of information. Initial implementations of Aperture VISTA began in December 2009, with roll-outs to all of Telx’s 15 data centers expected by the end of the first quarter of 2010, company officials said.

 

In an interview with TMCnet earlier this month, Shepcaro explained how the company’s new partnerships, capital markets and other verticals are contributing to the company’s overall growth and shared his predictions for 2010.