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DCIM SoftwareWhat & Why?

The Data Center Challenge

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High Availability versus Efficiency

White Space & The Back-End: The Great Divide

DC Back-End

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DC White Space

Q1: How Do You Avoid Single Point of Failure?

Q2: How Do You Reduce Data Center Costs?

Traditional Data Center Operations

Facilities w/BMS IT w/System Management Tools

Monitoring in Silos

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Data Center Failure is Inevitable Data Center Failure is Inevitable

Traditional Data Center Operations

Asset Management Through Multiple Spreadsheets

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Data Inconsistency & Complexity in Management: Source of High Costs Data Inconsistency & Complexity in Management: Source of High Costs

Traditional Data Center Operations

Data Center Layout with Visio-like tools

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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

Traditional Data Center Operations

PUE Monitoring Absent , Inconsistent or Incomplete

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High Power Usage Accounts for >40% Operating Costs of Data Centers High Power Usage Accounts for >40% Operating Costs of Data Centers

Traditional Data Center Operations

Multiplicity of non-integrated tools

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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

The Origin of DCIM: Bridging the Gap

Data Center

Infrastructure

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Facilities IT

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DCIM: Single solution for end-to-end data center operationsDCIM: Single solution for end-to-end data center operations

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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

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Data Center Capacity Planning

Data Center Alarm Management

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Building Management Network

UPSUPS PDUPDUDG setDG setRack Rack

SensorsSensors

Facility Infrastructure

Gateway Device/Protocol Gateway Device/Protocol

ConverterConverter

AHUAHU

TransformerTransformer

Single Monitoring Console for Facilities & IT

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Servers Servers Network DevicesNetwork DevicesStoragesStorages

IT Infrastructure

Enterprise LAN

Aggregator Aggregator

SwitchSwitch

DC Monitoring

DCIM

Dashboards: Data Center KPIs

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Role & Customer-based Dashboards

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

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• 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

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

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• 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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