DCIM Benefits

Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) can address many of the challenges data center managers and senior management face.

  • Maximize physical environment
  • Optimize power and cooling resources
  • Inadequacy of excel and visio to address complexity of data center
  • Speed to provision and install new equipment
  • Visualize your data center—from CRAC units, to server position, to network connections
  • "What if" modeling scenario capability - plan for changes accurately
  • Know current and available capacity by power, weight, rack space
  • Improve utilization
  • Improve speed of installation and issue resolution

Overview

Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) provides IT and facilities insight into the data center via a centralized, integrated tool to monitor, manage, model and report on IT equipment and facility assets.

Gartner predicts that DCIM will have a 60% market penetration by 2014.

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Components

The main component for DCIM is the software tool. Some considerations in selecting the best solution for your environment are:

  • Is it software or appliance?
  • Can the software be accessible via any web browser?
  • Can you import information from VISIO or excel?
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Resources

White Papers and Reports

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