Panduit Physical Infrastructure Manager™ (PIM™) Software Platform and PViQ Intelligent Hardware combine for a comprehensive data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution. This intelligent software and hardware provides data center professionals greater staff productivity and visibility of all data center assets along with their connectivity, locations, and relationships. PIM™ solutions allow you to discover, visualize, model, control, report, predict and manage all physical data center assets including the ability to simply deploy new assets and plan capacity for future growth. PIM™ solutions can also help control energy costs, reduce risks and increase operational efficiency.

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Panduit Unified Physical Infrastructure Solutions
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Data Center Infrastructure
Management (DCIM) Solutions
3/7/2012

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Common Data Center and Extended Enterprise
Pain Points and Needs
Pain Points Needs
• Managing increasing data • Critical IT asset information for
center scale and complexity change management and
• Lack of visibility into planning
enterprise facilities • Monitoring of highly distributed
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• Optimization of existing resources IT assets
and assets • Integrations with asset
• Inconsistent, highly manual, management, network Interdependencies
error-prone processes management, and service desk
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• Lack of end-to-end visibility of full platforms
asset lifecycle, including physical
• Reporting, dashboard
location and relevant asset
visualization, and analytics
• Difficulty ensuring assets support
business unit operational and
planning requirements
• Current asset management
systems don’t track moves of
IT assets
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3. Unified Physical Infrastructure (UPI) Approach
• Flexible, end-to-end UPI-based solutions help meet business and technology
challenges head on for a smarter unified business foundation
smarter, foundation.
• Mitigate Risk – Efficient physical infrastructure management enables
seamless integration to reduce risks which can occur throughout
the network
• Lower Cost – Panduit physical infrastructure solutions drive financial
advantages to reduce energy and occupancy costs, and help secure
competitive advantage
• Increase Agility – A high level of integration within the physical
infrastructure enables flexibility and improved business agility
• Enhance Sustainability – UPI-based solution offerings enable
organizations to meet sustainability goals by driving resource
g yg y g
and energy efficiencies across the physical infrastructure
Unified Physical
Infrastructure
The UPI approach enables organizations to connect, manage and automate critical systems
and drive operational, financial and sustainability advantages, allowing your business
to minimize risk, lower cost, and heighten agility and reliability.

4. Panduit’s Intelligent Data Center Solution Elements
Intelligent Software and Hardware
Complete data center infrastructure management (DCIM) through
monitoring of and management of critical physical layer resources.
Professional Advisory Services
Migration to next generation solutions, mitigating risks in consolidation
solutions
and virtualization, and achieving greater energy and real-estate efficiency.
Energy Efficient Cabinets
Cooling conservation for greater thermal management and energy efficiency.
Pre-Configured Offerings
Reduce implementation time and costs by delivering a pre-engineered,
pre-tested and validated modular solution optimized for high technology platforms.
High Speed Data Transport (HSDT) Copper and Fiber Cabling Systems
Ease of deployment and proven performance to ensure availability,
reliability and scalability of mission critical systems.
Physical Infrastructure Foundation
Ensuring reliability, agility, and security to drive business advantages and overall success.

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Panduit’s Physical Infrastructure Management Offering
Physical-to-Logical Network Views Layers 2-8
Panduit’s Physical Infrastructure M
P d it’ Ph i l I f t t Manager™
(PIM™) Software Platform visibility
extends beyond network
connectivity to include IT assets,
power, environment and space to
ensure available:
• Asset tracking and utilization
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• Power capacity Layers 0-1
• Thermal capacity
• Spatial capacity
• Resource capacity

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PIM™ Solution
• Structured modular-based offering
– Customize module mix
based on business needs
– Enables easy deployment
of additional functionality
• Available modules include:
– Asset
– Power
– Connect
– Dashboards & Reports
– Enterprise
– Integration Modules
• Integrations with leading:
– Asset management systems
– Network management systems
– Change management systems
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• Works seamlessly with Panduit PanView iQ™
system hardware and third-party networked assets

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PIM™ Software Platform Benefits
PIM™ software monitors physical
layer attributes in real-time to:
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• Track IT assets
• Mitigate business risks
• Drive operational advantages
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and sustainability benefits
• Reduce OPEX and CAPEX
• Optimize capacity
management
• Support centralized, remote
management
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Deliver a single pane of glass
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to drive efficiency

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PIM™ Advanced Dashboard and Reports Module
• An “out of the box” set of pre-defined metrics
– Provides visibility into operational metrics that
include crucial parameters needed to manage
a data center – Power, Space, Connectivity and
Asset Tracking – through a set of pre-defined
reports and dashboards with advanced
visualization
– Sample dashboard metrics:
• Space, power and connectivity availability
metrics
• N b of assets categorized i various
Number f t t i d in i
predefined states
– Sample reporting metrics:
• Assets by Model Type report
• Virtual machine summary report
• PViQ Port Utilization report
• Allows end users great degree of flexibility
– Creation of Custom reports and dashboards
• Rich, intuitive and easy-to-use visual interface

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PIM™ Asset Tracker Module
• Flexible process flows and procedures
support tagging, movement and tracking
of physical IT assets
– Can be augmented through data
exchange between PIM™ software and
a mobile data entry device*
• Receive visual notification of ON/OFF
network device status
• View complete historical asset location
records
• Create a repository of asset details
• Define custom asset attributes and
status
• Integrate with third-party asset
management systems
* M bil d t entry d i purchased separately, see PIM A
Mobile data t device h d t l PIM-Asset
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specification sheet for more details

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PIM™ Power Module
• Monitor power usage via
hardware from
– Panduit
– APC
– Geist
– ServerTech
– Avocent
• Set thresholds
– Voltage
– Current
– Power
• Receive alerts
– Threshold violations
– Circuit breaker trip
• View graphical trending data

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PIM™ Power Module
• Power Outlet Unit Monitoring
– Includes temperature and humidity
monitoring when data is available
• View graphical trending data
• Set thresholds
– Temperature
– Humidity
• Receive alerts
– Threshold violation
– View graphical trending data

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PIM™ Connectivity Module
• Manage both data center
and extended enterprise
(telco l
(t l closets) with real-time
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connectivity updates
– PViQ™ patch panels
– Automated device moves
– Automated documentation
• Map active and passive
end-to-end connectivity
– Trace patch cord ends
– View port-level connectivity

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PIM™ Base Module
• Organize location hierarchy
• Search and locate devices quickly
• Automatically discover
device information
– Device Name
– IP
– MAC
– Location
– Port Names
• View/edit device details
– Virtual container
– Graphical views
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– Interactive floor
plan
– Event management
– D t il d reports
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• Task Manager for work orders

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PIM™ Task Manager
• Schedule physical infrastructure
tasks using PIM
• Reservations are made for
Connectivity or RU space to
coordinate installation or
removal of devices
• Requires third-party software to
originate work orders (BMC or
AyaNova connectors available)
• Asset details and device
information shared between
PIM and third-party software

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PIM™ Device Catalog and Rack View
• Device catalog
– 1000+ common devices
– Device attributes
– Visualization/modeling
– Device/discovery mapping
• R k view
Rack i
– Physical view of entire rack
– Rack capacity information
– Rack RU reservation data
– Zoom functionality
– Front and back views
– Device data

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PIM™ System Administration Features
• Manage users
• Define user groups
• Assign permissions
• Configure e-mail notification
• Schedule network discoveries
• Customize devices
• Forward events
• Set global attributes
• View unauthorized network
devices

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Remote Management
• Centralized management
of remote sites
– Device status
– Asset inventory
– Real-time events
– Monitored capacities
– Central repository of
infrastructure details

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Automated Documentation and Alerts
• Real-time events enable automation
– Identify network device
Moves/Adds/Changes
– Log patch field updates
– Notify user of asset status
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– Reduce MTTR
– Enforce SLAs
– Detect unauthorized devices
– Streamline audits
– Monitor 24/7

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Optimize Resources
• Capacity monitoring
– Map locations of available
devices and rooms
– RU availability
– Power monitoring g
– Thermal and humidity
environmental monitoring
– Network port capacity
• Switch port utilization
• Patch cord utilization

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Integration of Panduit Solution with System Software

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PIM™ Advisory Services
• Fully certified PIM™ Software implementation specialists to support you in
“Getting Started”
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• Our team leverages proven and tested deployment best practices and a well-
orchestrated methodology to help maximize the value of your investment
• Several services packages are available
• This deployment consists of an implementation that is a large enough sample to:
– Determine the best plan for the completion of the PIM™ implementation
– Serve as an example for the remaining implementation
– Provide dedicated training to effectively manage and maintain PIM™
– Determine if the engagement would best be completed by your team, by
engaging Panduit Professional Services, or a combination of internal
resources augmented by Panduit P f
t d b P d it Professional S i
i l Services t support full-scale
to t f ll l
implementation
– Set you and your team up for a successful deployment of the PIM™ solution

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PIM™ Software Modules
• Mix and match to meet your current data center needs
• Pricing based on number of cabinets/racks managed
• Easily expand system to include additional modules to drive increased
value and return on investment
• Future modules will be backwards compatible with all modules
Part # Description
PIM‐BASE Base Module Operating System
PIM‐ASSET Asset Tracking & Utilization
PIM‐CONNECT Connectivity Management
PIM‐ENT Enterprise Connectivity Management per building
PIM‐DASHBOARD Advanced Dashboard and Reports
PIM‐POWER Power Outlet Unit Monitoring
PIM‐IBMINT IBM Tivoli Connector
PIM‐MSFTINT Microsoft SCOM Connector
PIM‐BMCINT BMC Remedy Work Order Connector
PIM‐AYAINT Ayanova Work Order Connector
PIM‐MEDIA Software and Documentation

23. Panduit Core Business
• Panduit is a world-class developer and provider
of leading-edge solutions that help customers optimize
the physical infrastructure and mitigate risk through
simplification, increased agility
and operational efficiency
• Independent leader since 1955
• Global presence,
local focus and customization
• 4,000+ employees
• 112 countries of operation
• Solutions approach
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– Data centers
– Enterprise networks
– Industrial automation

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For More Information
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