CEO Corner

Welcome to the first issue of FieldView Solutions’ – DCIM News!

The DCIM market is an exciting and quickly expanding area.  We are proud to be at “ground zero,” driving management evolution and sharing our insights with you. Each quarter, we will bring you a variety of news covering market momentum and FieldView growth.

Regarding our growth, I’m excited about the flood of new activities at FieldView Solutions. First off, we have created a new website that’s easier to navigate and now our products and services can be located faster.  We know your time is valuable, so we want you to find the necessary information without wasting any efforts.

We've also been busy expanding our engineering and sales teams with the addition of three industry veterans.  The new additions will help us streamline our processes as well as enhance our offerings via new engineering expertise.

FieldView is now fully engaged in social media. We have created our FieldView DCIM Professionals Group on LinkedIn, which lets us host conversations on topics that matter most to you. In addition, we enhanced our blog with new, thought-provoking content that is sure to be entertaining as well as informative.  And wrapping it all up, you can now follow us on Twitter, as we post tweets on various FieldView and industry-related topics.

Most notable is the arrival of FieldView 4.0, the industry’s most valuable tool for data center infrastructure management (DCIM).  We invite you to be amongst the first to be notified and get the scoop before it’s announced.

We hope you will find this newsletter a valued resource. Please let us know how it can be improved. We all look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely
Fred Dirla, CEO
fdirla@fieldviewsolutions.com

Hugs From Home

FieldView Solutions participated in “Hugs From Home”, a program sponsored by our furniture supplier, Office Furniture Partnership, which sends both fun and practical items to US troops all over the world. The FieldView team had a great time filling the plastic tubes OFP provided with unique treats to send to American military men and women. We are proud of our team’s efforts which helped us exceed our donation goal by over 50%.

A group of FieldView Solutions employees which participated in the “Hugs From Home” program.

Expanding Executive Team

Last month, FieldView Solutions added three industry veterans to its team, with the addition of Tim Bartell as Sales Account Executive, Nunzio Greco as Senior Project Engineer and Luis Davila as new Solutions Architect.

Introducing Tim Bartell - Tim Bartell comes to FieldView with over 25 years of sales experience. In his new Account Executive role, he will be working with John Consoli and our sales team to identify new opportunities and more effectively move those opportunities through negotiations and on to closing.  Most recently Tim was a general manager with RIT Technologies, where he had overall responsibility for sales, customer support, logistics, operations and administration. Prior to his position with RIT, he worked with Cablofil, Inc., where he was responsible for communication as well as electrical and industrial sales in the New England, NY Metro and upstate NY regions. Tim has also held positions with The Mercury Group, Optical Cable Corporation, and Panduit Sales, Inc.

Introducing Nunzio Greco - Nunzio Greco has more than 15 years of experience in project management, engineering and customer support leadership. As FieldView Solutions’ new senior project engineer, Mr. Greco is responsible for planning, organizing, controlling, integrating, and completing projects on time and on-budget. He will work with the engineering, development, sales and support teams as well as provide customer training and post-sales support. Previously, Nunzio served as the operations manager of SunGard Availability Services, where he implemented disaster recovery best-practices and provided customer support for nearly 10,000 customers.

Introducing Luis Davila - Luis Davila has been an engineer and power specialist since 1979, and will bring his depth of experience to FieldView as its new solutions architect. He began his career with the Atlantic Electric Company as a power quality analyst and energy efficiency project manager. He also spent more than a decade as a lead sales engineer with DVL, Inc., a multi-million dollar provider of high-end UPS and HVAC systems for data centers. As a solutions architect for FieldView, Luis will use his experience and knowledge in energy-efficiency and data center infrastructure management to add new functionalities to FieldView’s offerings, and to develop professional relationships with prospects and customers that increase interest in FieldView products and services.

Ripped From The Headlines
Company News

• FieldView Highlights Better Data Center Efficiency Software at Data Center World
• FieldView Solutions Adds 25-Year Industry Veteran to Sales Team
• FieldView Offers Peek at Better Data Center Efficiency Software
• FieldView Solutions Adds Two Industry Veterans to Technology Team
• FieldView Showcases Data Center Efficiency Software
• FieldView Solutions Appoints Three Key DCIM Leadership Positions

FieldView On The Road
Join Us At These Industry Events

• Uptime Institute Symposium 2011 Booth #U9
  May 9-11, 2011
  Santa Clara Convention Center and Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA
• 7x24 Exchange 2011 Spring Conference
  June 12-15, 2011
  Hilton Bonnet Creek, Orlando, FL
• Data Center Dynamics
  August 16, 2011
  Washington, DC 
  Renaissance Downtown Hotel, Washington DC
• Data Center World Expo
  September 11-14, 2011
  Orlando, FL
  World Center Marriott and Convention Center, Orlando, FL

FieldView Solutions Blog

FieldView Solutions has been sharing industry knowledge and expertise on our blog site. Follow FieldView Solutions’ blog and share your comments and thoughts with us.

• A Power Efficient Data Center? Clearly, I must be dreaming!
• Last One Out, Please Turn Off the Lights
• FieldView Solutions Sends “Hugs from Home” to Service People Overseas
• The Times, They are a Changin’…And So is Your Job!
• Is Information Explosion Killing the Green Data Center?
• Automated Right Out of a Job? Hardly!
• Google Buys Big Apple’s Biggest Data Center Property: What’s Next?
• DCIM Predictions for 2011: The Year Data Center Operators Start to Listen

We’re excited about the formation of our LinkedIn Group FieldView DCIM Professionals. We invite you to join this new forum and get involved in data center management discussions. We hope the Group will provide a venue for professionals to share their knowledge, and get involved in dynamic discussions.

Sneak Product Peek

FieldView Solutions’ technology team is empowered to drive continued growth and development of its flagship product, FieldView -- the only web-based software solution that monitors, manages and optimizes all aspects of the data center infrastructure.

Tech Corner

Data Center Efficiency – the FV Value
David Hauck, CTO, FieldView Solutions

We’re excited about the upcoming enhancements to FieldView and I would like to share a sneak peek into some of the product’s robust features:

• The Metrics Viewer (MV) –The MV is a new analytics and reporting portal allowing multiple, real-time metrics to be easily monitored.  Users will now have specialized controls for generating comparative analysis within FieldView. This new feature will enable users to view comparative trends, alarms, metrics, and readings across multiple locations and devices, so variances may be quickly identified. Additionally, a new series of Business Intelligence (BI) reports and charts will be available. The BI reports will use industry standards and thresholds, regulatory guidelines, comparative metrics and analysis, and operator best practices to help users identify key areas for more informed decision making.
• Page Navigation -- Monitoring, problem resolution as well as finding proactive planning and forecasting data, now requires fewer clicks. FieldView’s page navigation has been simplified so users can easily analyze greater volumes of complex data more rapidly.
• Critical Polling Agent (CPA) – The new CPA feature allows clients to configure selected devices for high priority, high-performance polling.  Once tagged, these critical devices are polled through an independently running and separately spawned process - to better ensure availability.
• Enhanced Communications between the Infrastructure and Supporting Computing Equipment– The FieldView database now contains the necessary web pages and reporting tools necessary to purposefully manage mechanical, electrical and plumbing equipment for any mission-critical environment.

• Zone Concept (ZC) – This new feature enables users to subdivide the data into user groups, separate locations, applications or system privileges. 
• Site Metrics Ribbon (SMR) –FieldView’s world, country, state, location and floor pages have been enhanced with the new SMR feature, to enable at-a-glance viewing of detailed information related to individual site levels. This feature is now available on all premise hierarchy pages.
• Enhanced Operational Reporting - This new feature allows users to now set parameters for generating and viewing operational reports.  Date ranges, groups of devices, or zone values may be selected to provide more focused reporting.
• Enterprise Integration Layer (EIL) – The EIL is an open database and API polling option.  Using the ODBC standard and through the use of published API’s, FieldView now polls devices with values stored in third-party or other independent databases.  Additionally, the new EIL features allow large and complex device configuration data files to be easily loaded -- increasing quality of implementation and maintenance efforts.
• Expanded Microsoft Windows Support – FieldView now supports Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008, in addition to its continued support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
• Redesigned User Interface (UI) - FieldView has simplified its UI by reorganizing information tabs to reflect the way users logically view the data. The redesigned UI will help streamline operator efficiency while offering more intuitive viewing options.