DCIM: Addressing Competing Demands in Data Center Management
Modern Data Center Managers face the problem of competing demands. For instance, an important KRA for the Data Center (DC) Manager is maintaining highest levels of uptime throughout the year. At the same time, for keeping capital costs under control, maintaining high...
Energy Analytics for Data Centers
Energy Analytics Software, helps to maintain the desired level of PUE in a dynamic environment of a Data Center and to adjust to various ICT and non-ICT loads associated with Data Center operations. Based on its predictive modelling, various measures can be initiated proactively to attain the desired energy efficiency.
Asset Relationship in DCIM
Asset information is an important aspect of DCIM software. All asset information needs to be maintained including make, model, ratings and any such information, which would be characterized as static information supplied by the manufacturer. When an asset is deployed...
Can DCIM Provide BMS-like Control Functions?
We get asked this question occasionally. The short answer is YES. GFS Crane DCIM does provide Control functions. Since advent of DCIM about a decade back, there has been a conventional segregation of duties between BMS and DCIM. While Building Management Systems...
Why DCIM is Critical for IT Infrastructure Management?
A modular DCIM supporting IT Infrastructure Management could prevent fire or power trip in a Rack. Most DCIM add interactive graphics to get information about power, space, heat load and weight in one-go to identify best-fit racks for adding new devices on racks. It can avoid costly mistakes.
Forecasting PUE for data centers
PUE is one of the most important metric for a data center. PUE is the ratio of total power consumed by the data center by power consumed by IT devices. Most DCIM software will report on PUE by tapping the points where these measurements can be done. DCIM software is...
Rack Management System for Modular Data Centers
The industry is rapidly embracing a modular approach to data center infrastructure. The expectation is this trend would accelerate as customers are moving their principal computing to either Cloud infrastructures with satellite nodes or deploying smaller – usually...
Device Monitoring and Asset Management for Small Data Centers
SaaS-based Device Monitoring and On-Premises Rack Management System are two options now available for data center management for server rooms and Edge data centers.
Why DCIM driven, 3D visualization of the Data Center is important
“A picture is worth a thousand words" is an old English language adage, which brings in new perspective for a DCIM equipped with the 3D tool for Data Center visualization. For teams having to manage a data center remotely, the 2D and 3D visualization of their data...
Capacity Planning in Data Center
Plan now, before you reach capacity As much as a data center is about now: how it is functioning, how reliable it is, future capacity is always in the mind of a data center manager. Fundamentally, to simplify things, a data center manager needs to worry about three...