I remember as a child, I used to read the fascinating series of How & Why books. While in no way, can I make a pretence of doing something similar, nor is the subject as fascinating as Mother Nature, I have tried to answer the simple questions of What is DCIM and Why do I need DCIM. After all, there is still some confusion about this technology in spite of it being around for nearly ten years now. I would be delighted to get your feedback. My apologies in advance if a couple of slides appear to be commercials of our own DCIM Software, GFS Crane.

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DCIM Software
What & Why?

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The Data Center Challenge
High Availability versus Efficiency

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White Space & The Back-End: The Great Divide
DC White Space
Q1: How Do You Avoid Single Point of Failure?
Q2: How Do You Reduce Data Center Costs?
DC Back-End

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Traditional Data Center Operations
Facilities w/BMS IT w/System Management Tools
Data Center Failure is InevitableData Center Failure is Inevitable
Monitoring in Silos

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Traditional Data Center Operations
Asset Management Through Multiple Spreadsheets
Data Inconsistency & Complexity in Management: Source of High CostsData Inconsistency & Complexity in Management: Source of High Costs

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Traditional Data Center Operations
Data Center Layout with Visio-like tools
Static and No Real-time View of Available Power & Space Capacities.
Lack of Capacity Planning Leads to High Capex & Poor Asset Utilization
Static and No Real-time View of Available Power & Space Capacities.
Lack of Capacity Planning Leads to High Capex & Poor Asset Utilization

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Traditional Data Center Operations
PUE Monitoring Absent , Inconsistent or Incomplete
High Power Usage Accounts for >40% Operating Costs of Data CentersHigh Power Usage Accounts for >40% Operating Costs of Data Centers

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Traditional Data Center Operations
Multiplicity of non-integrated tools
No Analysis of Data Collected in Different Systems : Higher Capital Costs,
Higher Operating Costs, Higher number of failures
No Analysis of Data Collected in Different Systems : Higher Capital Costs,
Higher Operating Costs, Higher number of failures

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The Origin of DCIM: Bridging the Gap
DCIM: Single solution for end-to-end data center operationsDCIM: Single solution for end-to-end data center operations
Data Center
Infrastructure
Management
(DCIM)
Facilities IT

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DCIM Today: End-to-End Data Center Operations
Data Center Facilities & IT Power Monitoring
Data Center Environment Monitoring
Data Center Asset Management
Data Center Capacity Planning
Data Center Alarm Management
RealtimeDataCenterKPIs

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Servers Network DevicesStorages
IT Infrastructure
Enterprise LAN
Building Management Network
UPS PDUDG set
Rack
Sensors
Facility Infrastructure
Gateway Device/Protocol
Converter
Aggregator
Switch
AHU
Transformer
DC Monitoring
Single Monitoring Console for Facilities & IT
DCIM

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Dashboards: Data Center KPIs
Role & Customer-based Dashboards

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How DCIM Helps
Since DCIM Software dynamically captures information related to asset
utilization, power consumption, environmental conditions , it:
• Helps Data Center Manager avoid unnecessary over-provisioning
• Helps plan investments and new capacity
• Helps reduce the capital costs
• Helps reduce power use and other operating costs
• Helps reduce risk of failures through critical alerts
• Helps adapting to technical and business change more easily
• Helps improvement plans through real-time metrics & dashboard

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Financial Savings from DCIM
• Sweating out existing investments through asset life cycle
management and capacity planning
• Avoiding over provisioning
• Savings on capital investments through better utilization
• Deferring investments to later date
• Reducing operating expenditure
• Reduced power and cooling costs
• Improved productivity through automation of manual tasks
• Higher availability of business IT Services
• Increased availability lowers cost of downtime
• Predictive failures: faster diagnosis for shorter downtimes.

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