Data Center Infrastructure Management
Many of the most successful enterprises in the digital economy, regard their data centers as strategic assets to realize an enormous competitive advantage. They are looking for ways to work into that direction, and they want to strike a balance between efficiency and reliability.
Increasing efficiencies, reducing costs and maintaining availability are top priorities for today’s data center administrators. In the past, the idea of conserving resources while enhancing performance was next to impossible even to the most experienced IT and Facilities organizations. That was until data center infrastructure management (DCIM) came along.
While DCIM is not a magic bullet, it does have the capability to give real-time insight into power, space, and cooling that helps you manage capacity, reduce risk, and increase efficiency. We have evaluated the promise of DCIM and believes it can deliver real value to your data center in the following ways.
Capacity Management
It is about delivering visual, real-time data on the consumption and availability of space, power and cooling resources. DCIM software has the ability to track the operating range and max load for each device in your data center. Moreover, DCIM goes far beyond this static information to monitor and report on each device in real time. It provides visibility into the actual, daily consumption of every asset so that you know precisely how much capacity has been used and how much is left.
DCIM also enhances capacity planning with reporting on historical data and “what if” testing to model various provisioning scenarios. You can know how changes will affect resource consumption over time and accurately forecast availability into the future.
Risk Management
DCIM makes it possible to model your entire infrastructure, you can see exactly where your assets are located and the relationships between power, cooling and data devices. The visual map makes it easy to understand dependencies and the impact of changes. DCIM also monitors how your assets are consuming power in real time with a one-line view of the power chain that provides the most efficient way to identify and address hotspots, as well as see where excess capacity exists.
With DCIM, you can know exactly how your resources are allocated and how change will impact your operations. And that means better capacity planning that lets you optimize the use of your data center assets while ensuring business continuity and mitigating risk.
Operations Management
Maximizing efficiency requires a holistic view of the data center, and this is exactly what DCIM delivers. DCIM makes it easy to understand every aspect of the data center—from knowing how much power each device is consuming and where stranded capacity exists, to streamlining processes for locating devices, managing alarms and adding, moving, renaming or decommissioning devices.
DCIM creates a comprehensive model of all data center assets. Because the model shows the existing capacity of space, power and cooling systems, along with dependencies between devices, you can accurately calculate the impact of change to avoid under- or over-provisioning. The visual model also makes staff more efficient as they can quickly identify the optimal device location and find devices without physically searching for them.
Change Management
DCIM helps the various groups standardize change management. DCIM captures the agreed-upon processes and provides a workflow that coordinates tasks between teams, triggering tasks at the right moment, and providing participants with the appropriate information for making decisions.
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