In the next two years, data centers worldwide will turn to DCIM tools for better troubleshooting and energy management, spending $1.8 billion on the segment in 2016, according to market research firm 451 Research.As more companies start down the DCIM deployment road, they need to avoid potential potholes.
UMass considered pricing models and discovered that most vendors fell into two categories: price per endpoint and monitored device, or price per rack.
Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tools monitor, measure, manage and/or control data center resources and energy consumption of both IT-related equipment (such as servers, storage and network switches) and facilities infrastructure components (such as power distribution units and computer room air conditioners).
When Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) tools came on the market, they were a way of keeping information in a repository for facility related infrastructure (power, cooling and space) and then in time added 3-phase power, networking, work-flow and reporting capabilities. This product investigation often follows an incident that came too close to disaster, or a real failure that the enterprise doesn't want to repeat.
Disaster prevention may be the biggest reason buyers look seriously at DCIM tools. Vertiv.
See user review of Schneider Electric. 3. Examples of DCIM tools include Schneider Electric's StruxureWare and Emerson Network Power's Trellis. Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tools monitor, measure, manage and/or control data center utilization and energy consumption of all IT-related equipment (such as servers, storage and network switches) and facility infrastructure components (such as power distribution units [PDUs] and computer room air conditioners [CRACs]).
Colo companies are deploying these tools to optimize their facilities and, in some cases, to provide DCIM as a service to their customers.
Its DCIM tools can also assist with capacity planning, change management, energy efficiency and cooling and IT optimization.
"We were looking at monitoring far more endpoints than racks, so cost wise a per-rack solution made more sense for us," he said. The Schneider data center solution assists with tasks like energy efficiency and change management. Adoption of DCIM software by government agencies is being driven by the government’s data center consolidation and optimization initiatives. Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tools see growing popularity.