DCIM

The promises, challenges, and imperatives of data center infrastructure management (DCIM).

Increasing efficiencies, reducing costs and maintaining availability are top priorities for today’s data center administrators. In the past, the idea of conserving resources while enhancing performance was next to impossible even to the most experienced IT and Facilities organizations.

Evaluating the Promise of DCIM

While DCIM is not a magic bullet, it does have the capability to give real-time insight into power, space, and cooling that helps you manage capacity, reduce risk, and increase efficiency. Vertiv has evaluated the promise of DCIM and believes it can deliver real value to your data center in four key areas.

Thermal Management

Managing available cooling capacity between IT devices and the facility

Capacity Planning

Maximize current resources and project for business growth

Data Center Monitoring

Have greater availability and peak performance

Energy Management

Minimize energy waste and cost, and ensure industry compliance

Is Your Organization Ready?

DCIM is a business process, as much as a technology. As for any new process, it is important to have an internal plan which reflects your key business priorities, what you can expect from a DCIM implementation, and metrics for how to measure success.

Selling DCIM Internally

Three things the C-Suite wants to hear

What to Expect During Implementation

Important considerations when implementing DCIM

Return on Investment (ROI)

How you measure ROI will, of course, depend on the goals and objectives you have set for your DCIM initiative

Essential DCIM Functions

DCIM can go a long way to helping your data center better serve the business, be more efficient, spend less money and mitigate risk

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Developed and verified by Forrester Consulting*, this tool captures costs and benefits data for calculating return on investment in DCIM solutions.

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DCIM

Increasing efficiencies, reducing costs and maintaining availability are top priorities for today’s data center administrators. In the past, the idea of conserving resources while enhancing performance was next to impossible even to the most experienced IT and Facilities organizations.

Evaluating the Promise of DCIM

Is Your Organization Ready?

Resources

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