NORLINX and STARLINE announces the completion of interoperability between the Industry's first visual software for both Layout and Monitoring and the STARLINE Critical Power Monitor

RALEIGH, N.C. and CANONSBURG, Pa., April 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NORLINX and STARLINE announce the completion the interoperability work between the StarLine Critical Power Monitor (CPM) and the Norlinx GSMpowerbus software, offering a complete solution for designing and then managing StarLine overhead power busway.

Mark Swift, Business Development Manager for StarLine states "We are impressed with NORLINX's innovation and ability to create a complete solution for visualization and monitoring our overhead power distribution products.  Working through this compatibility exercise with NORLINX has created a great total solution option for our customers and channel partners -- having a layout design tool and monitoring in one solution is really cool."

Alan J. North, CEO NORLINX, "we welcome the opportunity to work side-by-side with STARLINE in serving customers with overhead power monitoring.  Our team has created an exceptional offering that we believe will help datacenter managers to do their tremendous job in capacity management, risk mitigation and decision support. "

Product Description:

GSMpowerbus: The industry's unparalleled power bus metering software solution.  Enterprise level software for managing any size StarLine Installation.  Discovers all current meters connected via your local or remote network (cat 5/6 or wireless), MODBUS or Serial concentrator.  Provides trending and reporting for historical data for each monitor or collectively aggregated by any user-defined group.  Visually build floor plans with GSMPowerBus.  Easily toggle between Amps, Max Amps, Watts and Max Watts for each current meter.  Permits color visualization of power and heat density for each current meter.  Assign each current meter to the top-level view of each cabinet to determine KW by cabinet.  With StarLine's billable grade energy meters create customer power billing reports for any user defined entity (i.e. department, customer or division).  Pair up current meters to ensure circuit failover capability at each branch circuit.  

GSM Suite:

Global Site Management (GSM™) provides complete intelligent infrastructure management with real-time results.  Whether Data Center Manager, IT Technician, or Executive, GSM™ provides the vision you need to manage capacity, increase efficiency, and avoid risk while preserving valuable business resources

About NORLINX:

NORLINX, Corporation: a leading provider of management information systems for optimizing data center infrastructure and operations. NORLINX has 17 years of Data Center and IT management experience building, managing and supporting Server Farms, Data Centers and Operations.

NORLINX has been true to two persistent goals since its inception:

• Make simple, logical, and complete software solutions that eliminate risk and manage capacity in the data center.
• And provide you, whether Data Center Manager, IT Manager, or Executive, the information you need to manage risk, capacity and efficiency in your data center.

NORLINX customers incorporate our solutions to manage IT as a business instead of a technology expense, creating dramatic changes in their corporate paradigm.

Headquartered in Raleigh/Wake Forest, North Carolina, NORLINX has customer relationships across the US and internationally. For more information, please visit http://www.norlinx.com.

About UEC/STARLINE:

Universal Electric Corporation: the leader in customizable power distribution has been an industry innovator for more than 85 years. The company's award-winning STARLINE systems are the only fully flexible products available that allow access to power anywhere it is needed. Designed to meet the changing electrical power needs of any business requiring ultimate flexibility, STARLINE products have revolutionized electrical power distribution in data centers, industrial manufacturing facilities, retail chains and grocery stores worldwide.

SOURCE STARLINE