Products & innovations
Harting’s ‘smart’
Han-Modular
ID connectors
enable Industry
4.0 production
process
improvements
Harting is expanding its range
of ‘smart’ connectors, which
can provide identification of
key machine components or
functional control elements
and are also increasingly
being deployed for machinery
predictive maintenance.
Communication can be
performed using inexpensive
bidirectional systems like the I2C
bus, as well as standardised bus
systems such as CAN Bus.
Implementation as a Han-
Modular module ensures
that identification is flexibly
integrated into interfaces
which comprehensively supply
machines with power, data and
signals, in the most optimum
space saving manner possible.
For modular designed
machinery with pluggable drives,
auxiliary equipment and other
controller units, ID modules help
to ensure that each machine
module is instantly recognised by
the automation control system
as it is fitted or replaced, saving
machine set-up time and limiting
operator error by ensuring that the
correct one is applied according to
the operational requirements.
For Industry 4.0 applications,
integration takes place via
network enabled devices
or, in future, directly via an
Ethernet interface. This in
turn implements end-to-end
networking of the data.
For further information visit:
www.harting.co.uk
44 | May 2017
Pure Storage Announces FlashArray//X
Pure Storage has announced FlashArray//X, the company’s first all-NVMe, enterprise
class all-flash array. Built on proven FlashArray architecture, FlashArray//X enables
true global flash management with new Purity DirectFlash software and NVMe
DirectFlash Modules from Pure Storage, which eliminate performance bottlenecks
associated with legacy technologies.
This end-to-end, software-to-raw flash optimisation over NVMe dramatically
improves system performance and allows customers to further unlock the value of
their data. It also reduces latency by up to 50 per cent, and increases write bandwidth
by up to 2x and performance density by up to 4x.
Within the FlashArray family, FlashArray//M delivers general purpose consolidation
at optimal value and FlashArray//X offers maximum consolidation power per rack unit.
Customers can now consolidate and run their most demanding workloads on just 10
DirectFlash Modules.
Pure combines purpose built software and hardware with its Evergreen Storage
program to create a storage experience for the modern digital enterprise – proven
99.9999 per cent availability and rich data services.
Since its inception, Pure Storage has designed arrays architected specifically for flash
from the ground up. DirectFlash represents the future of storage, a future that is modern
and allows software to communicate directly with the flash media, without the inefficiencies
or limitations of existing solid-state drives (SSDs) or Serial Attached SCSI (SAS).
For further information visit: www.purestorage.com
EkkoSoft Critical 3.0 now available to provide 3D virtual
reality visualisation across entire data centre estates
EkkoSense has released
EkkoSoft Critical 3.0 – its
immersive 3D thermal
visualisation and monitoring
software and sensor offering for
managing critical data centre
thermal risks. EkkoSoft Critical
3.0 provides organisations with
real time, rack level thermal
monitoring using 360° virtual
reality to visualise hot and cold
spots – across entire data centre estates.
3D-modelling, 360° visualisation and real time thermal monitoring is combined in EkkoSoft
Critical 3.0 to provide data centre managers with a holistic and immersive 3D real time view
of their entire data centre environment. The latest version offers estate-wide aggregation,
enabling high level visualisation of key environmental, cooling and power metrics, as well as
live indicators of any specific thermal, power or device communication issues.
Key EkkoSoft Critical 3.0 functionality includes rack level thermal/airflow/power
monitoring from manual and sensor inputs; 3D visualisation of data centre thermal and
cooling profiles, enabling tracking of cooling performance/efficiency and management of
thermal compliance; as well as an easy to use rapid 3D Room Builder that lets data centre
managers model and build their own room layouts virtually. The solution’s 3D immersive
views let you virtually walk through the data centre environment – regardless of location – to
check on specific racks and monitor airflows.
For further information visit: www.ekkosense.co.uk