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Rackwise for Visio SE v2.3 helps customers build and maintain accurate datacenter modeling information and documentation. Data-driven model supports over 18,000 different devices from over 120 IT vendors. Each shape contains data properties about physical specifications including include heat, power, size, and weight. Physical aspects provide foundation for measurement, change management, configuration, and modeling of datacenter cooling, power, and facilities requirements.
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Visual Network Design Releases Rackwise for Microsoft Visio, SE V2.3
Datacenter Planning and Physical Modeling Application Upgrade
Rackwise for Visio Standard Edition(TM) increases addressable vendor library to over 18,000 intelligent shapes, adds Microsoft Excel editor and import, local archive, metric support and international power modeling
BURLINGAME, Calif., Feb. 27, 2006 -- Visual Network Design, Inc. (VNDI) today Announced the release of Rackwise for Visio SE, version 2.3.
"By listening to our customers we were able to enhance our Standard Edition to support the requirements for physical datacenter automation," said VNDI President and Chairman,
Emmett DeMoss. "VNDI has incorporated true data modeling in our Rackwise Standard Edition(TM) to help customers automate the analysis of escalating heat, power and space
requirements in the datacenter. The new SE product features enhanced shape selection and data table-driven metrics, providing higher accuracy in creating, editing and
integrating datacenter heat and power modeling intelligence."
Visio SE is built as an application plug-in to Microsoft Visio and provides an unprecedented productivity boost to building and maintaining accurate datacenter modeling information and documentation. "Visual Network Design is adding a real productivity boost for IT Professionals. The ability to have Visio diagrams automatically generated through the importation of data in an Excel format is a
significant time savings over dragging and dropping stencils onto the Visio drawing surface. Microsoft and Visual Network Design are making this data-driven modeling feature available immediately to users of the Microsoft Visio 2003 IT Professional Resource Kit," according to Ritu Chaturvedi, Product Manager for Microsoft Visio.
The ability to accurately visualize and model the datacenter has never been more important and Rackwise SE allows IT professionals to easily build heat and power models to manage their capacity for cooling, space and power. "Most IT users understand how important it is to have an accurate, up-to-date record of your heat, power, rack, and slot configurations," believes Andi Mann, Enterprise Management
Associates. "This is why Rackwise's data-driven model really sets it apart - having real vendor data behind the Visio diagrams allows Rackwise models to be consistently accurate and up-to-date. It is a powerful planning and reporting tool for datacenter managers."
New Features in Rackwise SE include:
o Rackwise(TM) Data Table Entry - Rackwise SE now supports the automation of the creation of Visio diagrams through the import of Microsoft Excel data tables. The Excel Template will allow the offline editing and selection of over 18,000 different devices. With the Rackwise Smart Toolbar(TM), spreadsheets can be created using a pull-down selection within Excel and directly imported into Microsoft Visio 2003, creating live visual rack diagrams and reports. Now, editing for Rackwise SE can be done exclusively using data fields, vs. visual drag and drop, significantly reducing the time required to build and edit documentation of large datacenter environments. Reports for power, heat, physical space, devices and change information are generated automatically, once imported into Rackwise SE.
o Local Archive - Rackwise SE now allows the local saving and importation of Rackwise (.RAK) files. All files and documentation can be saved on the user's local machine with no customer-specific information or history saved on the Rackwise server.
o Intelligent Shape Library - Rackwise SE now supports over 18,000 different devices from over 120 IT vendors. Each shape contains data properties which allow detailed, accurate visualization in Microsoft Visio and physical specifications which include heat, power and size and weight. These physical aspects provide the foundation for accurate measurement, change management, configuration and modeling of datacenter cooling, power and facilities requirements.
o International Version - Rackwise SE can now accept metric properties for weights and measurements as well as US imperial.
Pricing for Rackwise Standard Edition starts at $2,400 (USD)per year, per subscriber, and can be purchased on-line at www.rackwise.com.
About Visual Network Design, Inc.
Founded in 2003, Burlingame, CA-based Visual Network Design, Inc. develops innovative software technology for physical datacenter automation and modeling for the design,
configuration, visualization, reporting, and management of IT systems. The Rackwise product family is broadly used by original equipment manufacturers to intelligently configure rack-based telecommunication and computer systems as well as by F1000 enterprises and service providers to intelligently plan and manage their datacenters.
More information is available on the Web at
http://www.rackwise.com, via e-mail at info@rackwise.com, or
by telephone at (650) 631-1005.
Visual Network Design and Rackwise are registered trademarks of Visual Network Design, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks in this document are the properties of their respective owners.
Media Relations:
Betsy McClain
Visual Network Design
(650) 631-1005
betsy@rackwise.com
