Comply with Uptime Institute and ASHRAE recommendations 

ANEC's ONCALL system provides a scalable holistic approach to data center management and support systems, bridging the gap between data collection from conventional BMS systems managed by the Facilities group and the data immediacy usually available from NMS (network management systems) operated by IT departments. In short, many islands of information operating on several platforms and usually in different departments. 

Going Green
"Green" citizenship drivers to reduce CO2 emissions are often viewed differently by Facilities Management and IT groups.  Facilities tend to concentrate on reducing collective overheads, whereas IT tends to be driven by power capacity, space utilisation, cooling constraints and evolving business needs. 

IT managers continue to be challenged with the trends to increase CPU, bandwidth and storage densities which push the boundaries of power and cooling capacity to the limits.  Many data centers and machine rooms need to be redesigned and engineered to provide improved efficiency. 

Targets, incentives and accountability will be shared as new and emerging legislation and taxation now requires organisations to account for energy usage and demand.  Both Facilities and IT must provide projections and consistent frequent reporting, reflecting the constantly changing complex dynamics of the data center and interaction with local climate.

Many of the data sources are of course available, but present on disparate systems. Most managers already find the collection and assessment of this data very time consuming, tedious and repetitive;

	Most managers already find the collection and assessment of this data very time consuming, tedious and repetitive;

This is further exacerbated by inconsistencies and delays exerted by dependencies on individuals and other departments.

ONCALL provides the means to collect data from all business critical and underlying support systems presenting the data in real-time interactive topology views together with powerful graphical and tabular reports. 

Continuously collected data from power meters, wireless sensors, rack appliances, server power supplies and UPS systems can be organised within ONCALL to visually show correlations with environmental metrics to calculate power consumption, utilisation and cooling efficiency. This rich repository of data can be used to further identify trends for capacity planning and identification of emerging problem areas with air flow distribution and velocity with appropriate sensors. 

	ONCALL features intelligent alerting, escalation mechanisms, sensor calibration and an ability to operate independently of dependencies on specific vendor hardware.

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