Joyent and Emerson Network Power will address the needs of industrial cloud services by combining Joyent's SmartDatacenter suite of data center software applications with Emerson's Trellis™ platform for DCIM. Built in part on Joyent's Node.js runtime, the Trellis platform currently runs in the Joyent cloud. By integrating the Trellis platform into its cloud management stack, Joyent will significantly improve usability, industrialization, efficiency, and sustainability for its cloud service customers. The Trellis platform will become a tightly integrated component of Joyent's SmartDatacenter. The commercialization of this standardized and fully integrated solution is planned for the first half of 2013.
“We selected Emerson as our partner because the Trellis platform is the only DCIM solution available today that can provide holistic, real-time visibility from the service processor to the power grid, and enable dynamic optimization of physical data center resources,” said Jason Hoffman, founder and CTO of Joyent. “This alliance will allow us to offer a unique, tightly integrated, modular, and highly efficient solution to optimize the entire infrastructure based on the energy consumption of application workloads.”
By combining the critical infrastructure information provided by Emerson Network Power through the Trellis platform and Joyent’s orchestration layer, both companies will be able to track the energy consumption of virtual workloads and the impact each virtual workload has on the physical infrastructure. Operators will gain complete visibility across their entire cloud, from the power grid up, enabling discrete workload/watt measurements, and allowing them to redress the energy consumption of applications to their appropriate owners. Workload/wattage measurement will also enable operators to optimize the entire infrastructure based on application energy efficiency. The Trellis platform's real-time architecture, built specifically for this purpose with hardware and software designed to work seamlessly with Avocent®'s Universal Management Gateway, is the first of its kind and the only solution currently available that can make this possible.
Integrating the Trellis platform with Joyent's SmartDatacenter will bring infrastructure visibility to the cloud orchestration layer, enabling optimized resource delivery that improves overall performance, energy efficiency, and reduces costs. Key benefits include up to 70 percent faster infrastructure resource deployment through quicker and more efficient resource provisioning. Other advantages that can be achieved through improved infrastructure management include up to 40 percent reduction in maintenance costs, up to 25 percent reduction in energy costs, and up to 50 percent reduction in capital expenditures.
“Emerson Network Power is thrilled to partner with a leading cloud infrastructure services provider to deliver greater optimization and efficiency improvements through comprehensive management of all data center resources,” said Steve Hassell, president of the Avocent business at Emerson Network Power. “Integrating the Trellis platform with the Joyent cloud not only enables system-wide performance optimization, but also brings into play next-generation DCIM based on application workload performance and opens up new possibilities for holistic data center energy optimization.”
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