GFS Crane Industrial IoT Examples
The advent of Industrial IoT is enabling unprecedented optimizations in multiple areas such as: Field Service Energy Efficiency Quality Management Safety Management Logistics Management Data Center Infrastructure Management Let’s consider the Cold Chain Refrigerated...
Scalability/Reliability considerations in DCIM software
DCIM software must be scalable and reliable to reap ROI.
Why is monitoring Air-Quality within Data Centers so Important?
High Humidity and Poor Indoor Air-Quality can be disastrous for Data Centers: Unchecked concentrations of humidity, temperature, and various chemicals can lead to serious consequences like Data Center Corrosion. Data centers in urban locations have reported failures...
Industrial IoT: Staying Connected
The quest for extreme optimization in manufacturing from days of Frederick Taylor’s “Scientific Management” in the early twentieth century to Business Process Reengineering a few decades back, resulted in significant efficiency improvements in all spheres of economic...
GFS reduces deployment time of its software GFS Crane DCIM by adopting container technology
Container technology, such as Docker Container, is gaining momentum and being widely adopted by software companies as a mechanism to deploy software. Virtual machines( VM) and VM appliances have been the standard way to deploy when isolating computing environments....
DCIM Policies: Automating Data Center Standard Operating Procedures (Part 3)
Our last two blogs on DCIM Policies discussed “Risk Management” and “Governance.” Risk Management covered Alarm, Escalation, Redundancy and Disaster Recovery Policies. Governance covered Security, Data Retention, Approval and SLA Policies. This last part will cover...
DCIM Policies: Automating Data Center Standard Operating Procedures (Part 2)
In my last blog on DCIM Policies (Part 1) we discussed about “Risk Management” and the various “DCIM Policies” that fall under this category. Now moving on to the next category that is “Governance”, which will be covered in this blog (Part 2). Streamlined governance...
DCIM Policies: Automating Data Center Standard Operating Procedures (Part 1)
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...
Defining DCIM: A Revisit
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...
Meet Us At DCD New York
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...