Microsoft Technology Centers Choose PI System
Microsoft Technology Centers select OSIsoft® PI System® for real time data management
San Leandro, CA-(August 3, 2009) OSIsoft (www.osisoft.com), provider of the PI System, the industry standard enterprise infrastructure for management of time-series data and events, announced today that Microsoft Technology Centers (MTC) have chosen the OSIsoft PI System to monitor and analyze the performance of the MTC's critical facilities including power, mechanical, and IT.
The 18 MTCs provide customers with experts and resources to envision, plan, build, deploy, operate and optimize secure customized computing solutions based on Microsoft and partner technologies.
The MTC network will use the PI Infrastructure to collect, monitor and analyze facilities and IT operations performance data. The PI System's ability to aggregate, analyze, and visualize all types of operational data in one archive will provide the MTC staff new capabilities to manage their data centers, create additional customer value, and help the facilities meet their corporate Sustainable IT goals.
Today, OSIsoft and Microsoft empower enterprise manufacturers and utilities to gain a competitive advantage by presenting users with dynamic operational, business, and energy data they can use to make better-informed decisions while driving excellence across the value chain. With the MTC, OSIsoft and Microsoft can further drive end customer value with their critical facilities.
"We are pleased to support Microsoft Technology Centers and its customers," said John O'Shea, OSIsoft Senior Vice President. "Adoption of OSIsoft's PI System infrastructure will help Microsoft increase efficiency and reduce costs across the MTC network to support their sustainability and environmental goals. Together, we can take these 'lessons learned' to our joint customers for their benefit. OSIsoft plans to use the Microsoft MTCs as part of our joint sales and business development engagements with Microsoft and customers."
"Microsoft and OSIsoft have a joint commitment to sustainable IT," commented Michael Valletta, Technical Director, MTC New York. "In meeting this commitment, Microsoft has expanded its use of the PI System by our Global Foundation Services (GFS) unit and the Microsoft Enterprise Engineering Center (EEC) in Redmond, WA, to include the global MTCs. This will enable our customers and visitors to see our joint technology for energy and environmental visualization at work, while we continue to reduce energy use at these facilities."
Microsoft Technology Centers are located in the United States in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Irvine, New York City, Reston, and Silicon Valley, and internationally in Bangalore, Beijing, Cologne, Dubai, Dublin, Edinburgh, Munich, Paris, Taipei, and Thames Valley.
About OSIsoft
OSIsoft (www.osisoft.com) delivers the PI System, the industry standard in enterprise infrastructure, for management of time series data and events. A global base of more than 15,000 installations across manufacturing, energy, utilities, life sciences, data centers and critical facilities, and process industries relies upon the OSIsoft PI System to safeguard data and deliver enterprise-wide visibility into operational and business data in order to manage assets, mitigate risks, improve processes, drive innovation, make business decisions in real time, as well as identify competitive business and market opportunities.
Founded in 1980, OSIsoft, Inc. is headquartered in San Leandro, Calif., with operations worldwide and is privately held.
Editorial contact
Laurence Keefe
OSIsoft, Inc.
lkeefe@osisoft.com
585.721.2233
