Aperture VISTA is a comprehensive data center infrastructure resource management system that revolutionizes the manner in which organizations manage today’s increasingly complex and ever-changing data center environment. It is the only enterprise-wide solution with the capabilities and tools to deliver all aspects of Data Center Service Management™ (DCSM™) to assist organizations with the challenges they face.

With a multi-dimensional perspective and visual format, organizations that leverage Aperture VISTA can ensure effective service delivery and efficient process flow with best practices meeting the DCSM challenge:

Planning and Management provides the information and analysis for optimizing process efficiency—and cost—over time.

• VISTA Data Center Configuration Management is the single source for information (reporting and analytics) on the data center infrastructure, providing the visual management of the equipment, space, power, cooling and port connectivity. It automates management processes as they relate to the data center and integrates the required data into the organization’s overall configuration management database (CMDB).
• VISTA Capacity Management aligns business forecasts with the current state and consumption trends for the infrastructure to proactively manage data center capacity and accurately predict future data center requirements such that service delivery is optimized, costs are controlled and the objectives of the business are supported.

Operational Control of the people and processes within the data center ensures plans are executed efficiently (to minimize costs) and accurately (to meet SLAs).

• VISTA Infrastructure Process Management revolutionizes the way companies manage the data center environment by providing best practice processes for equipment installs, moves and decommissions. It is tightly integrated with the VISTA configuration repository to reduce risks associated with changes and is configurable to meet the specific process requirements of organizations.

Monitoring and Automation provides information on the real-time state of the data center, including power consumption and environmental data for improved change and capacity management as well as alerts and alarms for data center personnel to respond to potential issues before they impact service delivery. It provides planning and operational process feedback to enable management analysis and verification for services to meet business demands as economically as possible.

• VISTA Infrastructure Monitoring is a robust solution to monitor the status and impact of the critical data center infrastructure through a “single pane of glass.” It provides a vendor-independent monitoring platform, which interfaces with the broader enterprise monitoring systems to extend monitoring of the data center facility with an IT perspective.

• VISTA Data Capture Handheld enables the rapid deployment of the VISTA solution and improves the accuracy of the information base used as the foundation of the DCSM processes by combining a best practices approach and real-time data validation prior to loading data into the VISTA Configuration Management database.
• VISTA Integration Management enables the VISTA system to (bi-directionally) integrate within the broader ITSM framework, supporting both data- Asset Management, Configuration Management Database (CMDB) and process-based (Change Management) integrations.

Aperture VISTA is the only proven enterprise solution with the ability to apply the principles of DCSM within the data center. With its use, organizations can achieve significantly lower operational costs, align resource usage to available capacity, forecast data center requirements from business projections and reduce the potential errors from the “human element”.