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.

Business Analytics for Data Centers: Part 2

Posted on: 24 Jun 2015

In the first part of this blog on Business Analytics for Data Centers, we explored why Analytics has become critical for Data Center operations . In this second part, we will explore how DCIM fulfills this role as a Business Analytic tool for Data Center operations. While DCIM in its early days was largely seen […]

Business Analytics for Data Centers: Part 1

Posted on: 06 Jun 2015

A new breed of Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software is now emerging out of the shadows of being just a monitoring and tracking tool. Advanced DCIM are now providing the much needed Business Analytics for data centers. This can be a boon for both C-level executives and data center managers looking to cut costs […]

New Frontiers in Data Center Management| DCIM Software

Posted on: 23 Dec 2014

As we approach end of another year, it is time to reflect what is in store for us in the Data Center world in 2015 and beyond. Up until now, from the dot com boom days, we witnessed first the proliferation and later consolidation of data centers. Now that is about to change. Gartner recently […]

Deriving ROI from DCIM Asset Relationship Mapping

Posted on: 06 Oct 2014

In my last blog on this site I had stated: “Mapping the entire chain from application and the application’s business owner to the VM on which it is residing and all the way up in the power and network chain to the source of power (in small data centers mostly up to the UPS) and […]

Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Relevance for Smaller Data Centers

Posted on: 22 Jul 2014

An often asked question: Is DCIM overkill for data centers that have less than 1000 square feet white space or those with connected power less than 500 KW? This question comes up because of a commonly held myth that DCIM is only about power savings. The argument here is that monetary savings from reducing power […]