Why Your Business Needs DCIM Solutions

What is DCIM?

Data Center Infrastructure Management is a category of solutions

• That integrates information technology or IT, and facility management services

• To help centralize monitoring and management

• It also provides intelligent capacity planning for a data center's critical systems

What Are its Components?

From the lowest to the highest in the power chain, DCIM provides solutions in an integrated fashion and comprises of

• Enterprise class monitoring to accommodate thousands of nodes

• Complete inventory information

• Multiple ways to visualize and report data

• Work flow management at every point in the power chain

• Open integration capabilities

Trends that Drive Adoption of DCIM

By 2017, DCIM tolls will be deployed in over 60% of large data centers. Trends that drive this include

• Increased reliance on critical IT systems

• Data center consolidation and tech research

• Shift to virtualization and cloud computing

• More efficient power and support for heat density cooling

• Asset Lifecycle Management and Capacity planning

Problems that DCIM Solutions Can Solve

Apart from directly simplifying planning, deploying, designing and operating data centers, DCIM can

• Maintain availability

• Respond faster to your business

• Ensure capacity planning

• Lower overall costs

• Provide DC consolidation

• Facilitate cloud computing

Direct Benefits of DCIM

DCIM directly helps, since it

• Enables efficient use of data center infrastructure

• Identifies thresholds and keeps track of them

• Ensures predictable consumption may help non reactive procurement

• Exposes common hidden issues so that rectification can be planned

• Helps revamp change management

Indirect Benefits of DCIM

DCIM also indirectly helps

• Correct unbalanced conditions before they turn into major issues

• Gain commitment from all those involved

• Provide design improvements to cabling, power distribution, density and efficiency

• Provides fresh rebates from power companies

What are the Risks of Poor Data Center Operations?

Risks that an inefficient data center poses for a business include

• Issues in power, space, cooling, and up time impede information

• Creates several data center barriers

• Lack of coverage and business service insight

• Divided data center operations

• Inconsistent or delayed data center maturity

What Should You Keep in Mind?

At the time of thinking about DCIM, you must consider

• Your user case

• Providing meaningful and accurate data

• Information on the people and process

• Making sure that DCIM will scale

• The ability to measure results

How Should You Decide Your Case?

You need to keep tabs on

• Capacity analysis

• Asset management

• Placement and Provisioning

• Power monitoring

• Environmental optimization and alerting

Final Takeaways

DCIM helps you gain control over infrastructure, so that it does not destroy your business:

• It provides financial benefits by reducing cost by 10% to 30% annually

• Improves the automate manual process by facilitating reporting, capacity planning, energy measurement and impact analysis to dramatically improve productivity

• Also helps gain operational intelligence about energy efficiency, process efficiency and resource utilization to measure data center performance

Looking for DCIM Services?

To contact Sunbird DCIM

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Call on (732) 993-4476

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Drop a mail at: customerquestions@sunbirddcim.com