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
Resources
DCIM Vendor Rankings
The votes are in. See what the industry analysts are saying in their latest vendor comparison.
ROI Calculator
Developed and verified by Forrester Consulting*, this tool captures costs and benefits data for calculating return on investment in DCIM solutions.
DCIM Benefits Estimator
Get a high-level idea of the benefit areas and savings that may accrue by implementing a DCIM solution.
