Solutions Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)

Data Center Infrastructure Management

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. It can accomplish the following:

  • Reduce operational costs by 20%
  • Reduce the time it takes to deploy new servers by 50%
  • Prolong the life of your data center by up to 5 years

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Benefits

  • Maximize physical environment
  • Optimize power and cooling resources
  • Inadequacy of excel and visio to address complexity of data center
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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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Next Steps

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