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Effectiveness (PUE) and cooling
system energy efficiency.
THE BENEFITS OF
USING DCIM ARE
REPLICATING
THROUGH THE
MARKET:
• 451 Research estimates total
supplier revenue for the DCIM
market will hit $1.8 billion by 2015.
• According to Gartner estimates,
DCIM tools can reduce operating
expenses by as much as 20
percent and extend the life of a
data center by as much as five
years.
• Other analysts note – for every
degree Celsius infrastructure
temperature is raised – DCIM
creates a 4 percent savings on
average for the typical energy bill.
Perhaps the biggest impact of a
DCIM system is its ability to create
a highly resilient infrastructure that
helps mitigate the risks of
downtime, without the CAPEX of
creating two infrastructures. It
removes the standard practice of
having one backup piece of
equipment for every primary
component — a costly and highly
inefficient strategy because it
requires duplicate circuits, PDUs,
UPS elements and generators.
A STRONG DCIM
TOOL HELPS:
• Ensure a resilient environment by
empowering managers to make
real-time inquiries about capacity,
and view the impact of “what-if”
scenarios to strengthen
vulnerable areas.
• Managers become proactive
through alarm and alert functions
to prevent potential failures
through real-time network
modifications.
• Create strategies for sustaining
greater workloads, while offering
trend analysis to stimulate
proactivity.
• Pinpoint peak demand and
identify when computing power
might be less expensive.
SIMPLY PUT:
DCIM is a solution with robust
analytics, easy-to-read reports and
dashboards that empower facility
managers to make critical business
decisions in real-time. The more
data points they have at their
fingertips, the faster managers can
make time and money-saving
decisions.
Once the understanding of how the
cloud works becomes clearer, it’s
easier to see that its operational
infrastructure is the same as many
large enterprise data centers.
However, unlike traditional
enterprise data centers, the cloud
has countless organizations who are
stakeholders within its processing
output. Therefore, it becomes even
more critical for these cloud
providers to ensure the integrity of
their services through IT innovation
and DCIM-enabled resiliency.
7X24 MAGAZINE SPRING 2015
Sev Onyshkevych is the Chief Marketing Officer for FieldView Solutions, Inc. He can be reached at
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