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HONEYWELL LAUNCHES NEW SUITE OF SOLUTIONS TO HELP OPTIMIZE DATA CENTER UPTIME AND PRODUCTIVITY
Honeywell Data Center Suite delivers an innovative user experience, increases resiliency in operations, improves worker productivity and provides visibility
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[{"type":"text","content":"Honeywell Data Center Suite delivers an innovative user experience, increases resiliency in operations, improves worker productivity and provides visibility into critical sustainability KPIs\nATLANTA, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (Nasdaq: HON), a global leader in connected buildings, today launched its Data Center Suite, a portfolio of outcome-based software solutions that help data center managers and owners optimize uptime, worker productivity, critical asset health and operational expenses while providing better visibility into sustainability KPIs.\nHoneywell data centers offerings allow facility managers to securely derive actionable insights from their own data.Data centers play an ever more critical role in keeping the global economy productive, while closer to home they support the conveniences of daily life — from working remotely to shopping online. By digitalizing, aggregating and analyzing disparate critical systems into a unified data lake, the analytics produced by the on-premise Honeywell Data Center Suite provides operators more holistic, actionable information to help boost efficiency and decrease costs. Based on the open architecture Niagara Framework, it combines data from both operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) infrastructure, securely enhancing situational awareness at site level as well as global fleet level, enabling condition-based maintenance to reduce downtime risk and operational expenses.\nGiven the exponentially increasing demand – as of April 2022, hyperscale operators planned to build 314 new facilities[i] – data center managers are often forced to do more with less, while at the same time being pressured to improve uptime, reduce costs and minimize energy consumption. User-friendly tools that automate processes can help reduce the chance for human error, which caused major outages over the last three years among 40% of organizations surveyed by the Uptime Institute,[ii] often driven by ignored or inadequate procedures. It can also help improve a data center's overall efficiency.\nThe Honeywell Data Center Suite's tools include:\nData Center Manager that integrates delivers situational site-level awareness of both OT (critical power and thermal assets) and critical IT assets data in a vendor-agnostic dashboard;Portfolio View that enables data center owners to mon...