GDCM's nlyte system is the only comprehensive automated and intelligent datacenter management solution. nlyte is a sophisticated environmental and strategic management system, with reporting and business intelligence functionality, that determines how infrastructure and IT assets combine to create both the physical and virtual datacenter. End-to-end mapping provides a complete view across the infrastructure, from power and cooling, to virtual domains, hosts and business applications.
nlyte has been designed specifically to provide a second generation datacenter management solution. Second generation functionality focuses on automation and optimisation of elements such as heat, cooling, power and space as well as extensively mapping relationships. nlyte also has a centralised configuration management application that is designed to integrate with existing datacenter equipment and centralise disparate systems in one application.
nlyte uses a cutting-edge web-based application to provide an attractive and intuitive interface for all users. The system has been designed to enable powerful processes to be achieved quickly and easily. Wherever possible, steps have been automated to reduce user workload and inbuilt software rules maintain data accuracy and enforce datacenter best practice.
Intelligence and logic is built into nlyte to provide assistance similar to an experienced datacenter management professional on hand, highlighting areas or operations that could lead to issues, either now or in the future.
nlyte is built on industry standard technologies such as Microsoft .Net and SQL Server 2000, providing a robust, powerful and scalable architecture to fit the requirements of any organisation. The user interface is built in Macromedia Flash to provide a rich interactive graphical interface that enhances the user experience and provides visual representation of relationships and concepts. Due to the intuitive design, users can be up and running with the system in as little as two hours.
Modeling
If you are Planning, Changing, Virtualizing or Optimizing Resources, the nlyte suite provides a comprehensive solution to solve complex problems.
Quickly determine the optimal configuration, dependencies and redundancies for datacenter power, cooling, space, and network connections.
Determine which servers, routers, network equipment, mainframes, and SAN’s provide the required performance and the best operational return.
Model and visualize the entire power and cooling infrastructure, highlighting tolerances and capacity using color coded representation.
Plan for changes understanding redundancies and dependencies of PDU’s, UPS’s and breakers. Map application dependencies to business groups and hosts.
Initiate changes through intelligent work-flow, from order entry through to installation, using a model that you are 100% confident will provide maximum data center optimization and return on investment.
Visualization
Complete graphical, dashboard, representation of entire data center infrastructure. Capacity information communicated through color-coded schema and drill-down navigation.
From a single cabinet to multiple data centers, quickly view current capacity, capacity trends, planned changes, operational limitations, workflow processes, owners, and organizations.
Navigate from data center view to rack to device to any logical or physical configuration.
View intelligent reports which provide detailed analysis on capacity, current activity, state, and trends.
Operations
The best Data Center Work Flow and Change Management solution in the market today. Easily build a workflow process customized to your organization or use one of our pre-defined template. The nlyte workflow wizard allows you to take control of your process without the need of outside services. Leverage workflow as a way to initiate automated actions, reduce downtime, improve installation and decommissioning timelines, improve quality and communication.
nyte’s integrated workflow, with change management, links changes to the underlying data used for nlyte’s analysis engine. This insures that reliable process and data are leveraged to produce quality analytics. By integrating a comprehensive solution, nlyte ensures that decisions are made, on – time, with reliable information.
Analysis and Planning
nlyte provides a powerful analysis engine for on-going operations and future planning. nlyte is integrated with Crystal Reports® to provide a totally flexible management reporting capability. nlyte comes preconfigured with a series of standard report templates. Since the nlyte database is open and documented, users can access the data with their preferred reporting tool to create their own reports on an adhoc basis.
Common analysis tasks including:
Full Life Cycle Management, Power, Facilities and Cooling planning, Cost reductions opportunities/candidates, Charge Back Analysis, Application dependencies & risk, Power circuit analysis & risk, mainframe planning and management, data center consolidation or relocation, blade system management, SAN’s planning, trend analysis of supply and demand, predictive analysis, scheduled reporting, and SLA management
Analyze underutilized devices, hotspots, redundancies, dependences, virtualization candidates.
Workflow:
nlyte’s fully integrated workflow module builds on the standards set by nlyte and Microsoft’s workflow foundation to provide organisations with a completely customisable application that has been designed from the ground up to deliver the flexibility that is needed to support changing organisational needs.
It enables the centralisation of workflow applications, providing end-to-end change visibility and control, rapid implementation of new standards and practices, reduction of the time, and risk to delivery.
nlyte workflow delivers the ability to build reputable driven processes that meet organisations business practices across the complete datacenter real-estate. These processes can include activities to control the exchange of change information between teams and other existing service desk applications.
nlyte workflow uses a fully customizable and configurable management console to provide a real-time view of the system status for each request, activity and overall process. nlyte workflow is delivered with a number of workflow best practices, processes and templates that can be customized to meet individual organizations’ business needs, allowing each step in a process to be represented, driven and measured. This enables consistent and repeatable service delivery.
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