Are data center demons keeping you up at night? You’re not alone. 84% of data centers report that deficiencies related to power, space and cooling issues are creating a multitude of challenges such as delayed application rollouts and disruptions in customer-facing services. As organizations expand their development efforts and application portfolios, data center managers must find new ways to get the most value from their existing resources and improve capacity planning in order to optimize operations. Defeat the data center demons and stay competitive in the application economy by optimizing existing resources and increasing insight and visibility into your data center operations. CA Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) offers the ability to capture detailed, real-time information and achieve a 360-degree view of data center operations that can rein in runaway costs, reduce downtime and mitigate other risk factors that can wreak havoc on the application lifecycle. Learn how to defeat the data center demons and stay competitive in the application economy in this DCIM infographic. Learn more about CA DCIM: http://bit.ly/1Bo7MDk

1. have experienced disruptions
in customer-facing services.
Optimizing Existing Resources
The strain on the data center continues to increase as organizations
expand their development efforts and application portfolios.
Data center management must find new ways to get the most
value from their existing resources.
Reducing operating costs ranks as the
#1 business imperative.
see optimization as the best way to
accommodate increasing demands.
want to improve the use of data
center capacity.
Increasing Insight and Visibility
Rising density and increasing workloads require
powerful analytics and better ways to visualize
capacity in order to optimize operations.
DCIM to the Rescue
DCIM offers the ability to capture detailed, real-time information and
achieve a 360⁰ view of data center operations that can rein in runaway
costs, reduce downtime and mitigate other risk factors that can wreak
havoc on the application lifecycle.
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1
IDC White Paper: The Datacenter's Role in Delivering Business Innovation: Using DCIM to Enable a Common Management Approach, Richard L. Villars, Doc # 237737,
November 2012 (Sponsored by: CA Technologies)
2
Pulse Report: Trends in Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM), Gatepoint Research, 2014
80%
75%
74%
63%
31%
have spent unplanned
OPEX budget.1
have postponed application
deployments.
26%
report delayed
application rollouts.
30%
Want reliable benchmarking
metrics.
Value centralized data collected
from multiple sources.
Need to quickly identify cooling and
power capacity for new racks.2
Would benefit from the ability
to analyze power, space and
cooling capacity.
51%
47%
27%
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Defeat the data center demons and stay competitive
in the application economy by:
of data centers report that devilish deficiencies related
to power, space and cooling issues are creating
a multitude of challenges:84%
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centers
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• Reduce repetitive manual tasks by automatically
collecting data from multiple systems
• Gain insight, information and control through
real-time monitoring and alerts
• Use the infrastructure more effectively by
enabling smarter capacity management
• Make faster decisions by providing visibility into
space and power utilization
You're not alone.
DCIM helps you:
Data Center Demons
Keeping You Up at Night?