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Nlyte Enterprise EditionData Center Service Management. Unmatched.

ProDUCt overview

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IT infrastructure is growing in importance as the applications it supports become a more integral part of business success. As a result, data centers have become even more critical to an organization’s overall IT function. Effective oversight and management of IT assets, resources and processes is indispensable.

Having pioneered DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management), Nlyte is spearheading DCSM (Data Center Service Management) to automate DCIM, workflows and IT integrations. Many of the world’s largest and most sophisticated data centers rely on Nlyte to manage all of their existing data center processes, resources, assets and interrelationships. As a result, they become more agile, reduce costs and operate more efficiently. Ultimately, Nlyte empowers CIO’s and CTO’s to turn their data centers from cost bearers into centers of excellence.

Asset Lifecycle Management

Audit & Compliance

Capacity Planning

Change Management Connectors

CMDB Connectors

Cost Savings & ROI

Migrations & Consolidations

Operational Efficiency

Tech Refresh

Virtualization Connectors

Nlyte Enterprise Use Cases Benefits

• Know what you have where to optimize end-to-end asset management

• Secure direct support for audit, regulatory and fiscal compliance

• Optimize the use of data center assets, space and energy

• Centralize workflow process management and communication with BMC, ServiceNow, HPE and CA

• Synchronize configuration item information via BMC, ServiceNow and HPE

• Quantify and justify the cost associated with moving, adding or changing data center equipment

• Reduces the cost, time and risk of migrations and consolidations

• Optimize resources and personnel with measurable, repeatable intelligent processes

• Facilitate, simplify and accelerate tech refresh process by automating manual tasks

• Link virtualization layer to physical and logical layer with hypervisor connector for VMware, Microsoft and Citrix


Asset lifecycle Management (“Dock to Decomm”)

Nlyte Enterprise Edition

KEY BENEFITS • Real-timereportingonassets,perdatacenterpercustomermappingtoeachlifecyclestage,facilitatingwarrantyrenewalsandmaintenancecontracts• Real-time,accurateassetinventoryauditsforcomplianceandyearlymaintenancereconciliation• Abilitytoreportusingacharge-backmodel• Immediaterecognitionuponassetarrivalatyourfacility,thusavoidingspendingonuninstalledassets

Cabinet views provide rich information: 1. visually 2. detail lists 3. navigation

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Bulk data upload speeds ramp-up and/or large change process

Floor plan view allows you to place and view asset informationOrganize asset information by many fields (by e.g. ‘Support Group’, ownership, etc.)

Audit & Compliance

Nlyte Audit helps you manage your assets, confirming them in-situ.

Asset management screen - Auditing and editing a cabinet and its mounted assets



KEY BENEFITS • Securedirectsupportforaudit,

regulatory and fiscal compliance

• HIPPA,SOX,RegulationSCIand DCOI compliant

• Capturechangetothedatacenter automatically to improve data accuracy and reliability

• UpdatetheNlyteContentDatabase asset information in real-time as changes occur

• Improveyourfinancialmanagement of IT assets by getting an accurate reflection of asset inventory

Capacity Planning

Conduct what-if planning based on capacity indicators before/after

Plan capacity with trendlines/predictions based on actual usage

Manage capacity project dependencies and status changes

Detailed allocation criteria for precision in what-if scenarios (industry patented)

KEY BENEFITS • Improvedcapacityplanningand

project lifecycle management

• Proactiveversusreactivedatacenter management

• Accuratedatacenterlifespanprediction-assess when you need additional capacity (and when you don’t)


Change Management Connectors


OUT OF THE BOX REMEDY STATUS SELECTIONS

DRAG AND DROP AN INTEGRATION ACTIVITY INTO THE WORKFLOW

3 REQUEST TYPES

CMDB Connectors

ServiceNowCMDB

BMC Atrium CMDB Connector sample Nlyte data fields ServiceNow Connector sample Nlyte data fields

HPE UniversalCMDB

Nlyte CDBRBMC CMDB Nlyte R Nlyte R

KEY BENEFITS • EnrichyourCMDBwithmoredatafortruercapacityplanning• Gainafederatedview:oneversionofthetruthforconfigurationitemattributes• Improvecompliancebyknowingwhereassetsare,whoworkedonthemlastandwhatwasdone

KEY BENEFITS • Savetimeandeffortwhileloweringriskbycoordinatingtwootherwisedisparatechangerequestsystemsasone• Enablefastermoves,addsandchangesbyallowingpreplanningforassetlifecyclemanagement• Gainfasterroot-causeanalysisandimprovedeventcorrelationasassetlocationsandapplicationsbecomevisibletoITSM


Cost Savings & roi


1-YearPayback

TOP 3US BANK

1YEAR

3-Month Installation Payback1-Year Payback

on Power Consumption

on Energy Cost (min)

on Hardware Maintenance

€500K $1M $100K

KEY BENEFITS • Quantifythecostassociatedwithmoving,addingorchangingdatacenterequipment• Obtainafullrangeoffinancialandoperationalmetricstomeasureandtrackimprovements• JustifyDCIMinvestmentandachieveROIfasterthanever

Migrations & Consolidations

KEY BENEFITS • Reducethecost,timeandriskofmigrationsandconsolidations• Obtaineasycapacityplanningrequiredtosupportmovesandchanges• Establishpre-movebaselinetomeasuresuccess• Visualizeandmodeltheentireprocessfromstart-to-end


Operational Efficiency


Process Design (drag/drop) allows you to visualize, optimize and integrate workflows

Enhanced resource management based on a group’s availability facilitates scheduling & management

Detailed, visual work orders minimize human error

KEY BENEFITS • Optimizeyourresourcesandpersonnel

with measurable, repeatable intelligent processes

• Makeindividualsmoreefficientbyproviding task focus and progress status

• Supportcross-teamassignmentfortasksshared by multiple teams

• ExtendtheadoptionofITILandCOBITinto the data center without any additional development or services

tech refresh

KEY BENEFITS • Facilitatetechrefreshprocessby

automating manual tasks

• Improveflexibilitytomoveworkloadsasneeded via intelligent asset provisioning and workflow management

• Improvewarrantyandleasemanagementtoavoid paying “overtime”



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virtualization Connectors

Nlyte punches above its weight and has delivered solid ROI for large enterprise clients

Nlyte’s core capabilities provide unmatched insight and visibility in near real-time

Nlyte’s 20 plus integration connectors to key partners such as BMC, ServiceNow and HPE, etc. further cement its DCIM leadership

“With Nlyte, we not only freed up half a megawatt of power, but also extended the life of our data center from 5 to 15 years. As a result, our CIO has been able to reallocate budget from about 70% for operations and 30% for development to 40% for operations and 60% for building tools for the business.”

VP and General Manager, Data Center Operations, PNC Financial Services

“It never ceases to surprise me that there are major data centers in operation today that don’t have a DCIM tool like Nlyte. With Nlyte and its advanced analytic capabilities, we have been able to gain control over our data centers. The ability to view, model and predict our data center power, cooling and space requirements in near real-time enables us to make the most effective use of our distributed estate.”

Simon Brickett, Head of Data Center Services, Computacenter

“A selling point of Nlyte was the off-the-shelf integration with some products that we already have, and with some that we don’t currently have, but are beginning to realize that we need as a large enterprise organization. What Nlyte has done is provide us with the push of ‘we need to stop doing it the old way and start doing it a better way’.”

Sean Hendershot, Manager, Data Center Ops, IT Infrastructure Division, Canon USA Inc.

Virtual Machines updated to a server asset Visibility between the physical Host and allGuestoperatinginstancesinreal-time:

•NlytehostrecordscreatedforeachVM•MultipleVMhostsonaphysicalserverasset•Updatedautomaticallybythehypervisor•IdentifyVMtophysicallocation

Virtual Machines – Nlyte Host Records Nlyte treats Virtual Machines much in the same way as Physical machines with operating parameters and asset details:

•Hostrecordcreated/updatedbythehypervisor•Hostrecordlinkedtoorganizationalunits•Hostrecordmappedtoserverandpower

KEY BENEFITS • Reducedcomplexityandcostof

managing a virtualized data center. Track changes automatically and continuously as VM’s migrate.

• Increasedcontrolandoptimizationof both physical and virtual resources, avoiding multiple management systems, manual and time-consuming processes to coordinate the views

• ClearidentificationofGuests&Hosts during outages and support to assure that affected applications have contingency plans

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