by Shekhar Dasgupta | Jan 6, 2022 | DCIM
Energy prices are again on the rise. The Brent Crude price per barrel on 31st December 2020 was US$ 51.22. A year later, on 27th December 2021, it was $ 75.24. It seems déjà vu as we recall the sharp rise (92%) in average Brent Crude price between Dec 2008 to Nov...
by Parikshit Bhaduri | Feb 9, 2021 | 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...
by Shekhar Dasgupta | Mar 8, 2020 | DCIM
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...
by Shekhar Dasgupta | Oct 21, 2019 | DCIM
We received an urgent call from a business partner. One of their customers had fire in a Rack in their Data Center and they were looking for a solution to prevent a recurrence. When our engineer visited them, he had two surprises. One, they had absolutely no...
by Parikshit Bhaduri | Aug 28, 2019 | DCIM
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...
by Shekhar Dasgupta | Jul 8, 2019 | DCIM
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...
