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Herman Chan,
President at
Sunbird Software
An enterprise dashboard displays real-time power and
environmental health, trends, events and alerts for all sites in
a single pane of glass with the ability to drill down for more
granular cabinet-level metrics.
Advanced warning of issues such as hot spot formation,
power capacity limitations, and loss of redundancy allows you
to take action to prevent downtime. DCIM software combined
with remote power control on intelligent rack PDUs lets you
switch devices on or off or power cycle them without the need
for an on-site technician to reboot servers and restore them
to service.
• Remotely manage all assets and connections across the
entire data centre deployment. As data centres become more
complex and distributed, more data centre managers are tasked
to remotely manage multiple sites and business applications.
In a modern data centre environment, maintaining an accurate
inventory of all your assets across all sites requires a tool
that provides real-time views of all your physical data centre
infrastructure. DCIM provides business intelligence and
analytics on metrics such as asset count by location, hosts
per application and asset cost by location which helps you
understand which applications require the most resources and
where you can increase efficiency. DCIM also lets you easily
understand how assets are physically connected via visual circuit
traces to help you avoid overloaded circuits, decrease latency,
perform impact analysis and quickly troubleshoot connections
to reduce downtime.
• Improve collaboration and productivity of remote workers.
With most data centre employees now working from home,
it’s more important than ever for data centre teams to break
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DATA CENTRE
PROFESSIONALS NEED A
COMPLETE REMOTE DATA
CENTRE MANAGEMENT
TOOLKIT WITH DCIM TO
BRIDGE INFORMATION
ACROSS ORGANISATIONAL
DOMAINS.
down organisational silos and share a single source of truth via
common views of dashboards and reports that are updated and
visible in real time. A modern, second-generation DCIM solution
will enable data-driven collaboration of remote workers with
business intelligence dashboards that can be created, edited
and securely shared with respect to granular, role-based access
controls. You can manage consistent KPIs across your functional
teams with preconfigured widgets and reports for every data
centre scenario. Categorise all assets in your data centre and
easily save and share asset and site views with the various
groups in your organisation, whether server, network, storage or
infrastructure teams, ensuring a common approach and process
for remote management of all equipment.
• Ensure physical security of data centres. DCIM software has
user reporting, audit logs, physical cabinet lock management
and surveillance feeds to allow you to monitor and manage
who has access to different areas of your data centre. You can
even remotely unlock cabinet doors for remote hands to service
equipment while keeping an eye on them with remote in-rack
camera feeds.
The ‘new normal’ may present a unique set of challenges, but
the objectives remain the same: improve uptime, utilisation and
productivity. Now more than ever, data centre professionals need
a complete remote data centre management toolkit with DCIM
to bridge information across organisational domains including
operations, facilities and IT, and have the information they need to
manage all physical, virtual and logical data centre assets; quickly
plan and provision new equipment; accurately make changes as
needed; improve data centre design; increase operational efficiency
and confidently plan capacity for future growth while increasing
utilisation of existing assets. •
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