Panduit Physical Infrastructure Management Solution Integrates with EMC lonix to Drive Increased Visibility and Control in the Data Center

Panduit Unified Physical Infrastructure based solutions leverage the PIM Software Platform to intelligently integrate the physical infrastructure, reducing costs while increasing business agility, availability, security and manageability

TINLEY PARK, IL (August 21, 2009) – Panduit Corp., a global leader in Unified Physical Infrastructure (UPI) solutions, announces the integration of its Physical Infrastructure Manager (PIM) System into EMC lonix for increased visibility and control of physical infrastructure assets to improve operational efficiency and minimize data center risk.

Panduit UPI-based solutions leverage an intelligent physical infrastructure as the foundation to enable convergence across communication, computing, control, power and security systems. These end-to-end solutions drive operational and financial advantages across the enterprise, allowing businesses to improve reliability, reduce costs, heighten agility and support sustainability initiative.

Panduit and EMC are working together to develop solutions that help customers manage risk within the physical infrastructure by intelligently converging physical and logical systems. The power of this collaboration creates flexible UPI-based solutions for the data center physical layer that enable monitoring, managing and automation of network tasks through intelligent asset identification and tracking.

Panduit’s Physical Infrastructure Manager (PIM) Software Platform, a premier physical layer network management system, now provides EMC lonix real-time information on the status of connectivity within the network cabling infrastructure.  PIM Software Platform reports all of the PanView iQ Hardware System (intelligent patch panels) connectivity changes to EMC lonix, and together they assist the network administrator with troubleshooting and documentation of the physical network infrastructure − to respond faster to configuration changes, assimilate usage and cabling connectivity data more quickly and save costs associated with network connectivity problems.

“Panduit operates at the forefront of the data center transformation by working together with partners like EMC and our customers to establish a reliable, dynamic infrastructure that makes it easy to adopt and deploy new technologies,” says Vineeth Ram, VP of Global Marketing, Panduit. “This latest achievement allows Panduit and EMC to provide data center solutions that help customers minimize risk to their physical infrastructure through simplified troubleshooting and more comprehensive asset tracking, resulting in greater business agility and operational efficiency.”

For more information on the Panduit PIM Software Platform and the intelligent PanView IQ Hardware System, visit http://www.panduit.com/pim.

About PANDUIT:

PANDUIT is a world-class developer and provider of leading-edge solutions that help customers mitigate risk of the physical infrastructure through simplification, increased agility and operational efficiency. PANDUIT’s Unified Physical Infrastructure (UPI) based solutions give Enterprises the capabilities to connect, manage and automate communications, computing, power, control and security systems for a smarter, unified business foundation. PANDUIT provides flexible, end-to-end solutions tailored by application and industry to drive performance, operational and financial advantages. PANDUIT’s global manufacturing, logistics, and
e-commerce capabilities along with a global network of distribution partners help customers reduce supply chain risk. Strong technology relationships with industry leading systems vendors and an engaged partner ecosystem of consultants, integrators and contractors together with its global staff and unmatched service and support make PANDUIT a valuable and trusted partner. (www.panduit.com)