Data Center Intelligence Software

Solve complexity with Data Center Intelligence Software

The trend for consolidation and construction of ever-larger data centers has been basically driven by economy-of-scale benefits. This trend is accelerated and facilitated by technological advances such as Web-based applications, system virtualization, more powerful servers all being delivered in a smaller footprint with an overabundance of low-cost bandwidth. In the past, most data center intelligence software were relatively small utilizing local, dedicated IT and facilities staff that could manage almost everything with manual processes and tools such as spreadsheets and diagrams. As data centers have grown in size and complexity, managing this way has become increasingly difficult with the need for enhanced data center intelligence software.

Leading causes of decreased data center efficiency and spiraling costs

• Utilization, despite technology advances, is still very low
• Increasing demand for IT to meet changing business needs
• Power and cooling accounts for 40% of the total budget
• Over 50% of existing data centers will be out of space within 3 years

It has now become evident that IT and facilities professionals need better tools and processes to effectively manage the enormous inventory of physical assets and the complexity of the modern data center infrastructure. Experience shows that once a data center approaches 50-75 racks, management via spreadsheets and Visio becomes unwieldy and ineffective. As the rate and volume of change in data center intelligence software has increased, the accuracy of spreadsheets has decreased.

Prompting both corporate as well as government regulatory attention and action, the outward expansion and increasing density of modern data centers have created serious space and energy consumption concerns. The IDC has forecasted that data center power and estimated cooling costs to almost $45 billion in 2010. Our data center intelligence software will help you track your power consumption.

Overnight, the need for data center infrastructure and asset management tools has now become an overwhelming,
high-priority challenge for IT and facilities management.