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10 Key Considerations for a Successful DCIM Project

Paula Alves
March 16, 2014

There’s a lot of hype and discussion about Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and associated DCIM Companies.   You might be like many others that are just learning about what DCIM in itself provides.  Or you might be more experienced but confused by all features that different DCIM Vendors have to offer.  

While the market is still in the early adopter phase we have seen successful DCIM deployments.   The keys to these successes have been based on a lot of discussion, review, and priority setting.  To ease in selecting a DCIM vendor and solution, we suggest that you review these 10 key considerations:

In Data Centers and Across Multiple Industries, Sensors are the Future

Michael Bord
March 10, 2014

Last year, in a fascinating article published by Gigaom, we learned some incredible ways in which sensors are making their way into a variety of industries and changing the way companies do business.

“Sensors placed in cars are allowing insurance companies to link policy premiums to actual data on how and where a car is driven. Sensors placed in teddy bears are allowing hospitals and parents to closely monitor sick children’s vital signs in a natural, comfortable environment. Even Disney is getting into the act with sensor-enabled MagicBands that allow customers to enter parks, unlock hotel rooms, and purchase food and merchandise with a simple wave of their hand.”

Determining the ROI of a DCIM Solution

Paula Alves
February 24, 2014

You’ve been here before — a new enterprise solution comes out of nowhere promising to cut costs, reduce inefficiencies, and increase productivity — and now you’re scrambling to figure out if those seemingly intangible value propositions are really something you need, how it all fits into your current system, whether you can ever hope to recoup your initial investment, and what it spells for your career in both the best and worst case scenarios.

Well DCIM isn’t that kind of a solution.  At its core, there are real, measurable value propositions that are self-evident to any data center employee: Efficient energy consumption, effective infrastructure management, and maintaining high availability. They’re three of the most resource intensive problems in the data center.  It doesn’t take a genius to figure out how to solve them; it just takes the right tools. And that’s where the payoff for DCIM is high.

DCIM is the embodiment of those common sense best practices, aided by technology.  It’s the answer to the black box you experience every time you want to find out how much energy you’re consuming, how much capacity you have, and how much is being wasted.  It also carries other benefits for dynamic data centers with frequent application rollouts, multivendor server management needs, and those looking to institute an effective chargeback system.

But how does a DCIM solution work to actually address these areas? Read Moving Past the Age of Over-Provisioning: The ROI on DCIM to understand how DCIM tools streamline and automate your operations and the level of return you can expect on your investment.

Read Moving Past the Age of Over-Provisioning: The ROI on DCIM

Raritan’s Newest KVM-Over-IP

Richard Dominach
February 12, 2014

Raritan is proud to announce the Dominion KX III, our new line of next-generation digital KVM switches providing BIOS-level remote access and control of PC’s and servers.  Containing all of the features of the Dominion KX II, the KX III is the industry’s highest performing KVM-over-IP switch.

Data Center Operations Best Practices

Paula Alves
February 10, 2014

Data Center operations best practices call for a strategic approach to balancing IT service delivery and cost efficiency. With the growing complexity of data centers from the demand for new service offerings and the sheer amount of physical compute, network, and storage required to provide those services, Data Center Managers are quickly realizing that manual tools, such as excel spreadsheets and Visio diagrams, are no longer an effective way to manage their Data Centers.  Instead, sophisticated data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tools that measure, monitor, and provide a best practices operations framework are needed.

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