7 Features Of A Top DCIM Solution

By Mark Gaydos, Chief Marketing Officer, Nlyte Software

According to IBM, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are produced each and every day from smart sensors, social media, texts, digital pictures and video, purchase and banking transactions, cell phones, and more. Now consider that all this data has to be processed, stored, and made available anytime, anywhere. Doing the heavy lifting to process all this information are hundreds of data centers. In a similar manner as IBM tracks all these statistics, data center managers must also track the statistics of their facility operations. This entails tracking all of their equipment and energy costs, as well as people and processes.

Helping data center managers complete their daunting tasks is an innovative set of solutions called Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and Data Center Service Management (DCSM). These solutions are a must have tool that extract often hidden data, locked in proprietary software and hardware devices, and normalize this information into understandable dashboard displays. Following are seven features data center and facility managers find the most compelling.