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ManageEngine Adds Aisle, Path, Wall Options to Data Center Views in RackBuilder Plus

Data Center Admins Can Create More Realistic Views of Data Center Floors

  • Adds hot air and cold air aisles to data center floor view
  • Adds walk paths and walls to mimic data center reality
  • Displays data center floor views in 3D and monitors health
  • View demo at http://betademo.rackbuilderplus.com

LAS VEGAS and PLEASANTON, Calif. - April 22, 2015 - ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced the latest version of RackBuilder Plus, its easy-to-use, 3D data center visual modeling software. Available immediately as a beta release, the new RackBuilder Plus includes options to add aisles, walk paths and walls when designing a data center floor. The new options let data center admins create a much more realistic view of their data center floors to see the exact locations of the hot and cold aisles, walk paths and racks.

ManageEngine is demonstrating the beta version of the new RackBuilder Plus in booth 211 at Data Center World, being held April 19-23, 2015, at The Mirage Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

"Most data center documentation tools cannot mimic reality. Their models are labor intensive to create and maintain," said Dev Anand, director of product management at ManageEngine. "For quick and easy management of data centers, admins need tools that can build actual representations of their data center floors for proper visualization and management. To help admins create those realistic views, RackBuilder Plus now gives them options to add aisles, paths and walls."

RackBuilder Plus provides a floor builder that helps data center admins to not only drag and drop racks but also drag and drop aisles, walls and paths. Admins can create a layout on the floor builder with all the aisles, walls and paths and then add the racks. They can create exact views of how their data center looks and visualize it in 3D.

RackBuilder Plus is built on OpManager, ManageEngine's highly scalable, data center infrastructure management software that can monitor 50,000 devices or 1 million interfaces from a single server. Data center admins seeking more visibility and management into their data centers can convert RackBuilder Plus into OpManager for network management, physical and virtual server monitoring, fault management, workflow automation, asset management and more.

Pricing and Availability

The newly added RackBuilder Plus options are available in the beta version and can be downloaded from http://beta.rackbuilderplus.com. RackBuilder Plus pricing starts at $199 for a rack.

For more information on RackBuilder Plus, please visit https://www.manageengine.com/data-center-visualization/, and for more information on ManageEngine, please visit http://buzz.manageengine.com/; follow the company blog at http://blogs.manageengine.com/, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ManageEngine and on Twitter at @ManageEngine.

About RackBuilder Plus

RackBuilder Plus is 3D visual modeling software that helps admins visualize data center floors in 3D. A life-like view of the data center floors and racks allows admins to have a virtual walkthrough across the floors from their office. RackBuilder Plus also offers real-time health status of devices using color codes and helps identify faulty devices in the data center. It is easy to install and use and is available for a free, 30-day trail. For more information on ManageEngine RackBuilder Plus, please visit https://www.manageengine.com/data-center-visualization/.

About OpManager

ManageEngine OpManager is a network management platform that helps large enterprises, service providers and SMEs manage their data centers and IT infrastructure efficiently and cost effectively. Automated workflows, intelligent alerting engines, configurable discovery rules, and extendable templates enable IT teams to set up a 24x7 monitoring system within hours of installation. Do-it-yourself plug-ins extend the scope of management to include network change and configuration management and IP address management as well as monitoring of networks, applications, databases, virtualization and NetFlow-based bandwidth. For more information on ManageEngine OpManager, please visit https://www.manageengine.com/opmanager/.

About ManageEngine

ManageEngine delivers the real-time IT management tools that empower IT teams to meet organizational needs for real-time services and support. Worldwide, established and emerging enterprises - including more than 60 percent of the Fortune 500 - rely on ManageEngine products to ensure the optimal performance of their critical IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, applications, desktops and more. ManageEngine is a division of Zoho Corporation with offices worldwide, including the United States, India, Japan and China. For more information, please visit http://buzz.manageengine.com/; follow the company blog at http://blogs.manageengine.com/, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ManageEngine and on Twitter at @ManageEngine.

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