Technology Partners - Part 2



AdventNet
Product Category:
Network Management Systems

AdventNet's ManageEngine OpManager is comprehensive network monitoring software that offers built-in support for APC's InfraStruXure® Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPSs), in addition to WAN, Server, and Applications monitoring with integrated help desk and asset management functionality. OpManager removes the compexity associated with network managment, helping enterprises worldwide to ensure high availability of their critical network components:
APC's Integration with AdventNet's ManageEngine OpManager

 

Altima Technologies
Product Category:
Design Tools

APC and Altima Technologies have worked together to provide Visio format versions of APC's InfraStruXure products to aid IT managers in their datacenter design and planning process:
Free Download: InfraStruXure Visio Images

 


Apple
Product Category: Operating System
APC and Apple have worked together to provide a variety of Uninterruptible Power solutions for Mac OS X users ranging throughout the Mac product line from desktops to the Xserve.
App Note: APC Power Protection for Mac OS X Solutions

 

 

Avaya
Product Category: VoIP

As an Avaya DeveloperConnection Innovator partner, APC's InfraStruXure products have been tested and certified for Avaya IP Office deployments. Additionally, Avaya's Proactive Contact System, a suite of hardware and software that enable proactive, opportunistic management of customer relationships within the contact center, include an APC Smart-UPS® integrated into the solution.
Avaya App Note: Avaya certification of APC's InfraStruXure for IP Office deployments
Avaya recommends that you protect all Avaya Proactive Contact equipment with a UPS
Certification of synTelate software and APC's Smart-UPS with Avaya Predictive Dialing System

 

Cisco
Product Category: VoIP

APC and Cisco engineers worked closely together to build communications support for APC's Smart-UPS products into the Cisco CallManager and Unity Express VoIP offering, to provide increased availability for VoIP services and to protect voicemail data in the event of an extended power outage.
App Note: APC Power Protection for Cisco VoIP & IP Telephony Solutions
Cisco/APC Joint White Paper on Power and Cooling for VoIP and IP Telephony Applications

 

HP
Product Category: Network Security

As a member of the HP Developer and Solution Partner Program (DSPP), APC has the opportunity to work closely with HP, and to develop solutions that integrate with various HP products. HP's Systems Insight Manager (SIM), a unified server and storage management platform, ships with built-in support for monitoring APC SNMP-enabled UPSs.
App Note: APC Integration with HP Systems Insight Manager

 

Jalasoft
Product Category: Network Management Systems

Jalasoft and APC have collaborated to produce a Microsoft Operations Management (MOM) Pack for APC UPSs. This Pack, available from Jalasoft, allows customers who want to manage their APC uninterruptible power supplies, as well as Windows servers, from the same MOM management console.
App Note: Jalasoft's MOM support for APC UPSs

 

 

Microsoft Windows
Product Category:
Operating Systems

Since Power Protection is critical to overall system availability, Microsoft and APC have fostered a long-term relationship to improve availability of Microsoft operating systems, starting with the initial UPS support in LAN Manager, following with Windows NT and Windows 2000, and most recently, with the co-development of the improved serial UPS support in Windows XP.
APC's InfraStruXure supports Microsoft's Platform Adoption Center and Partner Solution Center at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington, and also Microsoft Technology Centers around the world, where technology experts help customers envision, architect, and deploy Microsoft solutions.
App note: Built-in APC UPS support in Microsoft Windows Developed by APC for Microsoft.
APC's InfraStruXure Architecture Certified by Microsoft and listed in the Windows Catalog
APC's Microsoft Partner Solution Center Profile

 

 

Mozilla Firefox
Product Category: Web Browsers

Mozilla's global community of open source developers on the Firefox team relies on APC's InfraStruXure to house the server infrastructure used for Firefox's nightly build process. Additionally, InfraStruXure's network-manageable components can be managed via Firefox:
Case Study: Firefox web browser team relies on APC to improve uptime for speedy software development

 


Neon Software
Product Category:
Network Management Systems

LANsurveyor is easy to use network and desktop management software for small and medium businesses, that represents a cost-effective approach for end-to-end IT management including servers, switches, and even APC network-critical physical infrastructure. LANsurveyor's built-in APC InfraStruXure support provides discovery of SNMP-enabled APC devices, detailed UPS information, APC device status via SNMP trap support, as well as support for APC's InfraStruXure Manager:
App Note: APC's Integration with Neon Software's LANsurveyor®
Free Trial of LANsurveyor with APC management capabilities





NetApp
Product Category: Storage

The fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems by NetApp provide storage solutions for a wide range of environments, from large corporate data centers to remote offices. As an APC Technology Partner, NetApp has worked closely with APC to integrate built-in UPS monitoring and unattended graceful shutdown capability into their FAS Series of storage systems.
App Note: APC's Integration with NetApp's FAS Storage Solutions

 

 

Nortel
Product Category:
VoIP

Nortel's Business Communication Manager (BCM) is an IP-enabled communication system integrating voice and data functionality into a single platform for small and medium sized business, as well as multi-site and branch offices. APC and Nortel have worked to develop built-in APC UPS support in the BCM offering, which provides critical information such as battery health, input power quality, and power events, as well as graceful unattended shutdown in the event of an extended power outage:
App Note: APC Power Protection for Nortel VoIP & IP Telephony Solutions
APC's Listing on Nortel's Developer Partner Website
Press Release: American Power Conversion Provides Uninterruptible Power To Nortel Converged Data and IP Telephony Solutions

 

 

 

Red Hat
Product Category: Operating Systems

APC and Red Hat's longtime partnership dates back to 1999 when APC was the first vendor in the entire industry certified "Red Hat Ready". Today, APC's InfraStruXure system architecture consists of power, cooling and rack solutions for mission critical datacenter environments. As a component of InfraStruXure, PowerChute® Network Shutdown software installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers ensures graceful, unattended shutdown in the event of a power outage, and, with APC's PowerChute Business Edition, continues to be certfied "Red Hat Ready".
Press release announcing Red Hat's "Red Hat Ready" program
Certification profile on Red Hat's Website

 

 

Rockwell Automation
Product Category: Industrial SCADA systems

As IT networking gear and industrial servers are deployed in industrial environments, the need for clean, stable, secure power to ensure continuous operation becomes critical. Rockwell Automation and APC have partnered to provide their mutual customers with solutions including DIN-rail UPSs as well as integration into Rockwell's SCADA system, RSView. Rockwell Automation and APC have also worked together to provide the Allen Bradley 1609-P series of double-conversion Uninterruptible Power Supplies.
App Note: Rockwell Automation and APC's UPS and Management Solutions for Industrial Automation Applications

 

 

Infrant Technologies
Product Category:
Storage

APC and Infrant have collaborated to provide and verify built-in UPS monitoring and graceful, unattended shutdown for Infrant's award-winning ReadyNAS series of devices. This integration works via USB and supports APC's Back-UPS® product line and any Smart-UPS models which are USB-enabled.
UPS Setup Information in the ReadyNAS User's Guide

 

 

Integral Technologies
Product Category:
Security

Integral Technologies is well known in the security industry for its scalable video monitoring and access control systems that span the technology spectrum from analog to IP-based networks. The first phase of Integral and APC’s partnership will focus on the integration of APC’s NetBotz solutions for data center physical threat protection with Integral’s DigitalSENTRY enterprise video monitoring and Intelli-M access control systems. As the relationship matures, the companies plan to align the rest of their product offerings as well as jointly introduce innovative new solutions.