A deck on Data Center challenges and how DCIM Software can help to overcome them. It also shows the origin of DCIM over the various Traditional Data Center monitoring tools and methods.

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DCIM Software
What & Why?

2. The Data Center Challenge
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High Availability versus Efficiency

3. White Space & The Back-End: The Great Divide
DC Back-End
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DC White Space
Q1: How Do You Avoid Single Point of Failure?
Q2: How Do You Reduce Data Center Costs?

4. Traditional Data Center Operations
Facilities w/BMS IT w/System Management Tools
Monitoring in Silos
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Data Center Failure is InevitableData Center Failure is Inevitable

5. Traditional Data Center Operations
Asset Management Through Multiple Spreadsheets
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Data Inconsistency & Complexity in Management: Source of High CostsData Inconsistency & Complexity in Management: Source of High Costs

6. Traditional Data Center Operations
Data Center Layout with Visio-like tools
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Static and No Real-time View of Available Power & Space Capacities.
Lack of Capacity Planning Leads to High Capex & Poor Asset Utilization
Static and No Real-time View of Available Power & Space Capacities.
Lack of Capacity Planning Leads to High Capex & Poor Asset Utilization

7. Traditional Data Center Operations
PUE Monitoring Absent , Inconsistent or Incomplete
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High Power Usage Accounts for >40% Operating Costs of Data CentersHigh Power Usage Accounts for >40% Operating Costs of Data Centers

8. Traditional Data Center Operations
Multiplicity of non-integrated tools
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No Analysis of Data Collected in Different Systems : Higher Capital Costs,
Higher Operating Costs, Higher number of failures
No Analysis of Data Collected in Different Systems : Higher Capital Costs,
Higher Operating Costs, Higher number of failures

9. The Origin of DCIM: Bridging the Gap
Data Center
Infrastructure
Management
Facilities IT
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DCIM: Single solution for end-to-end data center operationsDCIM: Single solution for end-to-end data center operations
Management
(DCIM)

10. DCIM Today: End-to-End Data Center Operations
Data Center Facilities & IT Power Monitoring
Data Center Environment Monitoring
Data Center Asset Management
RealtimeDataCenterKPIs
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Data Center Capacity Planning
Data Center Alarm Management
RealtimeDataCenterKPIs

11. Building Management Network
UPSUPS PDUPDUDG setDG set
RackRack
SensorsSensors
Facility Infrastructure
Gateway Device/ProtocolGateway Device/Protocol
ConverterConverter
AHUAHU
TransformerTransformer
Single Monitoring Console for Facilities & IT
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ServersServers Network DevicesNetwork DevicesStoragesStorages
IT Infrastructure
Enterprise LAN
AggregatorAggregator
SwitchSwitch
DC Monitoring
DCIM

12. Dashboards: Data Center KPIs
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Role & Customer-based Dashboards

13. How DCIM Helps
Since DCIM Software dynamically captures information related to asset
utilization, power consumption, environmental conditions , it:
• Helps Data Center Manager avoid unnecessary over-provisioning
• Helps plan investments and new capacity
• Helps reduce the capital costs
• Helps reduce power use and other operating costs
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• Helps reduce power use and other operating costs
• Helps reduce risk of failures through critical alerts
• Helps adapting to technical and business change more easily
• Helps improvement plans through real-time metrics & dashboard

14. Financial Savings from DCIM
• Sweating out existing investments through asset life cycle
management and capacity planning
• Avoiding over provisioning
• Savings on capital investments through better utilization
• Deferring investments to later date
• Reducing operating expenditure
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• Reducing operating expenditure
• Reduced power and cooling costs
• Improved productivity through automation of manual tasks
• Higher availability of business IT Services
• Increased availability lowers cost of downtime
• Predictive failures: faster diagnosis for shorter downtimes.

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