Data Center Infrastructure Management
and Capacity Planning
| “Using a DCIM solution, we were able to model our customer’s proposed data center to prove that they were only going to utilize 60% of their cooling capacity. This insight prevented them from unnecessarily investing several million dollars to increase cooling capacity in the data center — an initiative that would have driven up costs and delayed completion of the project for several months.” --Consonus Senior Project Manager Bruce Cardos |
Whether you are migrating to newer technologies, relocating your data center, or planning for future facility improvements, Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions can accurately predict asset performance levels to achieve optimum operational efficiency.
Maximize Data Center Assets
DCIM solutions remedy the many pains associated with data center management including: capacity planning, escalating utility costs, precise provisioning, performance inefficiencies, virtual sprawl, and more.
With DCIM, your business can:
- Properly plan and forecast future capacities, including space, power, cooling, and network connections
- Effectively balance data center power, cooling, and space
- Automatically select best asset allocation
- Map asset relationships and dependencies
- Optimize critical data center infrastructure
- Extend the data center life span
- Maximize your virtualization investment to improve overall performance
- Mitigate risk by understanding the impact of changes to the infrastructure
DCIM Reduces Data Center Relocation (DCR) Planning Time
Relocating a data center — for whatever reason — takes a tremendous amount of preparation and resources to make the move a success; many hours are dedicated to planning, paperwork, and the move itself to guarantee accurate information and precision timing.
Cut your planning time almost in half with DCIM methodologies that boost efficiency, improve flexibility, and reduce the man-hours needed to complete a data center relocation. Our DCIM tools enable changes on-the-fly with data center modeling capabilities that represent space, power, heating, and cooling to produce scenarios highlighting the impact each change has on the other throughout the data center.
Prove Before You Make the Move
Validate any changes in data center infrastructure before you make the move to newer technologies. DCIM tools let you visualize and test modifications to confirm the best possible option. Sophisticated “What if” scenarios provide a safe, controlled mechanism that provides better planning capabilities for technology migrations, changes, and consolidations by visually modeling internal and external affects prior to the actual implementation. Using DCIM can ensure capacity thresholds are kept within limits, over-provisioning is minimized, and the exact strategy is proposed to achieve maximum operational efficiency. Find out more by viewing this detailed presentation: How DCIM Can Help a Consolidation or Migration.
