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TOP USE CASES FOR REMOTE
DATA CENTER MANAGEMENT
WITH DCIM SOFTWARE
Data center managers are under more pressure than ever
and need tools to provide complete visibility across the whole
facility. Herman Chan, President at Sunbird Software, tells us
why infrastructure teams should consider DCIM software to
help them achieve their core objectives of improving uptime,
utilization and productivity.
The COVID-19 pandemic has driven
all interaction with the outside world
online, causing a dramatic spike in
the utilization of server compute, storage
and network resources, and data center
managers have been tasked to continue
providing the services the world desperately
needs, quickly expanding capacity while also
maintaining uptime and high availability.
To make this even more challenging,
public health guidelines and shelter-inplace
orders have required data center
managers to reduce the number of people
in the data center to the bare minimum.
In this ‘new normal’ remote data center
management tools have provided total
visibility into global data center footprints
from anywhere at any time.
Even before the pandemic, remote data
center management was a trending topic
due to trends such as moving to colocation
or implementing Edge Computing, where
many remote sites need to be centrally
managed. With COVID-19, remote data
center management is now an absolute
necessity to maintain uptime and Business
Continuity while reducing the staff required
to go on-site.
Data center professionals now need to
leverage a wide range of technologies in
their remote data center management
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DCIM PROVIDES
BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE
AND ANALYTICS
ON METRICS SUCH
AS ASSET COUNT
BY LOCATION,
HOSTS PER
APPLICATION AND
ASSET COST BY
LOCATION.
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