Posts by Shekhar Dasgupta

Shekhar Dasgupta is the Founder & CEO of GreenField Software Private limited, a venture pioneering next generation data center technologies for cloud infrastructures.

DCIM Policies: Automating Data Center Standard Operating Procedures (Part 1)

Posted on: 27 Jul 2017

Recent high profile data center outages have again brought to fore that while a lot of equipment and facility investments have been made on redundancy and disaster recovery, there is still high reliance on manual operations. Surveys have indicated that human error ranks as the second highest causal factor in data center outages. This in […]

Defining DCIM: A Revisit

Posted on: 13 Jul 2016

Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software has now come out of the shadows of an emerging technology it had started with a decade ago as a tool integrating Building Management System (BMS) and a Systems Management software.  It has matured as a Data Center Operations, Planning and Management software vital for Data Center staff, managers […]

Meet Us At DCD New York

Posted on: 29 Mar 2016

We are privileged to be again participating in Intel DCM Booth at DCD New York on 19th & 20th April, 2016 at Marriott Marquis, Times Square. We will be announcing our new version GFS Crane DCIM v3.0 with a number of enhancements. With these enhancements, we will show how GFS Crane is a complete DCIM […]

DCIM| Avoiding Data Center Failures

Posted on: 03 Jan 2016

Our recent DCIM implementations provide an insight to actual use pattern with enterprise DCIM customers in the South Asia region. While analyst reports, mostly focused on the North American and Western Europe markets, suggest Energy Efficiency, Capacity Planning and Compliance considerations as foremost reasons for DCIM deployment, here’s our observations: While 80% of our enterprise […]

Data Center Metrics Session at DCD CONVERGED, Bangalore

Posted on: 15 Jul 2015

GFS is a Knowledge Partner at DCD CONVERED Bangalore taking place this week. We are unveiling here the integrated solution of GFS Crane DCIM with Intel Data Center Manager. DCD Attendees can see this tomorrow (16th July) at Intel Booth. GFS is sponsoring a Panel Discussion this afternoon “Key Metrics for Data Center Operations to […]