Data Center Analytics Software

How will data center analytics software work in MY data center?

Perhaps the easiest way to appreciate the value that data center analytics software and DCIM tools can deliver to your data center is to first consider a few simple questions that come up daily in a typical data center. Then ask yourself, how you and your team would answer them and how quickly your existing process and solutions can answer them:

• What servers do we have, where are they and what is their function? How much of their capacity is utilized, what applications run on them and who owns them?
• How are these servers powered and how much power do they use? How are they connected to which networks?
• Are any servers approaching power or heat thresholds that could cause them to fail? How could a data center analytics software help reduce this possibility?
• Do we have a current map of the power chain, network and server dependencies that would tell us what systems or power resources are impacted if a server or circuit fails or a UPS has upcoming scheduled maintenance?
• Do we have sufficient power and network connections to add additional servers in this rack?
• Where do we have sufficient space, power and cooling capacity in the data center today to support new 
servers/racks required for a new, critical application?

Think about the specific steps you will need to take with your current processes in order to answer each of those questions:

• What data will you need to collect and what you will collect with data center analytics software?
• How much time will it take?
• What resources will be required to assemble it?
• How many people will need to be involved, from how many organizational groups?
• How do you communicate with them and coordinate their activities?
• How many trips into the data center will be necessary to validate recorded data and collect additional data?
• Once you have all available data center analytics software deployed, what additional analysis will be necessary and how much confidence will you have in the accuracy to act upon it?

When properly deployed, our DCIM tools will be able to visualize the entire data center instantly and drill down to any desired level of granularity to answer these and many other questions with just a few clicks of a mouse from any web-enabled device. Browse our other pages on the website to learn more about our data center analytics software and ITAM resources.