Device42

Overview

Device42 combines DCIM, IT asset management, CMDB and application dependency mapping on one platform. Agentless discovery inventories on-premise and cloud infrastructure and feeds rack and floor diagrams, patch panel and cable documentation, IP address management and a near real-time CMDB. Its Sustainability Insights and Power Reduction capability uses that discovered data to uncover energy-intensive assets, benchmark performance and track CO2 emissions across applications, customers, vendors and locations, with the company claiming 30% or more reductions in power costs and emissions. Device42 offers 30+ integrations with existing tools and an open RESTful API, and is part of Freshworks following its acquisition.

Editorial verdict

Fits data centre and infrastructure teams that want discovered asset, power and CO2 data in one inventory rather than a separate spreadsheets-and-sensors exercise: agentless discovery feeds rack and floor diagrams, a near real-time CMDB and sustainability views that break emissions down by application, customer, vendor and location. The trade-off is procurement and proof: pricing is a per-device annual subscription with no published rates, the power-reduction percentages are vendor claims, and the platform's centre of gravity is IT documentation rather than energy optimisation. Teams wanting sensor-level measurement should pair it with metering tools.

Written by the GreenAIX editors from the recorded fields above. Vendors do not review or approve verdicts.

Use cases

• Build an automated CMDB from discovered infrastructure
• Track rack and floor power consumption and CO2 emissions
• Find under- and over-utilised racks and servers
• Document cabling and patch panels
• Expose inventory data to existing tools through REST APIs

Sources

• Device42 home
• Device42 DCIM
• Device42 pricing