The rising cost of energy and pressure for facilities to become more efficient is quickly driving data centers to adapt solutions to better manage and plan for their day to day operations. A successful DCIM solution deployment allows a manager to understand, manage and optimize the myriad amounts of data under their control. To learn more about successful DCIM solutions and how to deploy them download this white paper.
Data Center Frontier Special Report – Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
This special report will identify and quantify the questions and provide some answers to your DCIM strategy. It scrutinizes the operational and strategic business benefits and cost justifications, as well as the issues and processes the DCIM product suites are attempting to address or improve. To learn more about DCIM download this special report.
Data Center Manager Solution
The Intel DCM solution provided us with real-time and historical data center thermal maps and cooling analysis. The analysis covered not only servers and racks from different OEMs but also storage, networks, and facilities equipment. We were able to detect hotspots and cooling anomalies and find ”ghost” (underused) servers. Because Intel DCM was easy to implement, integrate, administer, and operate, this solution provided significant ROI in a short amount of time.
Security in the Data Center and Beyond – a Layered Security Approach
CIOs must continuously reinvent themselves and their organization’s digital roadmaps, while maintaining their business’ layered security. To Learn more about data center security download this guide.
Managing Data Center Expansion and Complexity
Digital business technology is rapidly advancing and increasing traffic within data centers. Manual processes will no longer suffice to keep up with increased demand. To learn more about managing data center expansion and complexity download this guide.
Six DCIM Tips and ROI Caculator
You’ve done a thorough evaluation of your DCIM software and are convinced that DCIM will make a major difference in the operation of your data center. Based on our experiences we have learned six simple lessons that can help you build a simple ROI model and get approval for your DCIM deployment. To learn what the 6 lessons are download this guide.
10 Key Considerations for a Successful DCIM Project
Considering a DCIM project in the near future? Here are the top 3 out of 10 key considerations for success.
1. Be clear on problems and prioritize over time
2. Don’t get caught in the feature comparison trap
3. Understand current processes and desired outcomes
To see the other 7 top considerations for your DCIM project download this guide.
A Buyers Guide to Choosing and Implementing DCIM Software
When choosing or implementing DCIM Software you must first identify Your Top Data Center Challenges. Are you trying to solve for asset, capacity, or change management?
Or for power, energy, or environment management? Download this white paper for some tips to help you identify your data center challenges
Considerations for Intelligent Power Management within High-Density Deployments
As data centers deploy virtualization and consolidate equipment for more efficient computing, the average rack power density is constantly rising. While an average cabinet supported 3 – 4 kW a few years ago, today that power management load is considered in low-density environments. It is certainly not uncommon to have cabinets drawing 9 – 15 kW and in several cases, even higher than that. With the rise in processing being done at every cabinet, strong attention needs to be paid to the cabinet power distribution strategy so that the highest levels of availability and efficiency are achieved with minimum management overhead. To learn more download this white paper.
Strategy for Data Center Growth
This whitepaper examines some of the short- and long-term issues and challenges that should be part of your due diligence when facing growing demands of your organization’s evolving computing architecture with a good strategy and making economic decisions.
It also provides guidelines for evaluating the alternative choices, such as colocation and hosted service providers, as well as cloud services, which can all be utilized together for enhanced flexibility.
Data Center Frontier is edited by Rich Miller, the data center industry’s most experienced journalist. For more than 15 years, Rich has profiled the key role played by data centers in the Internet revolution.