|
Click Title Bar Below to Expand/Collapse Sections
Home
Facility Monitoring, Management & Control Systems
Data Center Management Solutions
Data Center Management Solutions
If you could summarize infrastructure management
in one word it would be information. This information must be
complete, accurate, have audit capability, and provide an
integration layer.
Can you answer the following questions?
- How long does it take to deploy a new server?
- Who can you contact to get the accurate status for a project?
- For any given IT service, can you name all the servers on which it relies to properly operate?
- Do you have the capacity (power, cooling and space) to add 10 new blade servers?
If you can’t answer the questions, it is probably
because you don’t have the tools you need to provide the information
you need to do your job. The following illustration shows the
various infrastructure management functions, with information as the
core:
Whether you are migrating to newer facility or IT
technologies, relocating your data center, or planning for future
facility improvements, Data Center Management or Data Center
Infrastructure Management (DCIM) products and solutions can
accurately predict asset performance levels to achieve optimum
operational efficiency by providing comprehensive information and
feedback regarding the state of the data center.
Back to the Top
(Click image to view full-size)
APC InfraStruxure Management Software
A Comprehensive Data Center Management View
Data Center Management solutions provide managers
with the ability to perform a variety of tasks. As a consultancy
providing a
Complete View of Your Data
Center: Integrating IT and Facilities, PTS is unique and
comprehensive in its view of Data Center Management tools. For Data
Center Management, PTS includes eleven (11) categories:
Asset Management. Provide
database tracking of IT and/or support (facility) infrastructure
assets which may or may not include auto discovery and change
management
Asset
Location Management. Provide automated physical location
tracking of IT and/or support (facility) infrastructure assets.
-
Real-Time Monitoring.
Provide hardware and/or software for automated real-time data
capture of temperature, humidity, power, security, leak detection,
camera surveillance, etc.
-
Energy Management. Provide automated real-time data analysis of energy usage for IT
and/or supporting infrastructure resulting in PUE trending.
-
(Click image to view full-size)
Nlyte 6.0 Data Center Management
Capacity
Planning. Provide real-time data analysis for space, power, and
cooling capacity planning.
-
Optimization Management.
Provide IT performance versus available resource analysis.
-
Documentation Management.
Provide online document retention, management, and control.
-
Computational Fluid Dynamic
(CFD) Modeling. Provide dynamic airflow and temperature modeling
for predictive analysis of cooling systems performance.
-
Maintenance
Management. Provide maintenance management including scheduling,
service history, entitlement tracking, cost analysis, etc.
-
Power Connectivity
Management. Provide power connectivity management in device
hierarchical manner.
-
Data Connectivity Management.
Provide data connectivity management in device hierarchical
manner.
Back to the Top
(Click image to view full-size)
Raritan dcTrack Data Center View
Although the Holy Grail for Data Center Management
or DCIM solutions is to have a fully integrated Data Center
Management platform, current
manufacturer
solutions typically provide one or several, but not all, of the
capabilities listed above. Rather, it is critical for data center
operational managers to consider how to acquire, integrate, and
leverage multiple manufacturer solutions across the spectrum of data
center management requirements.
Robust,
Integrated Platform Management
Robust, integrated platforms in the Data Center
Management space typically include a base software solution with a
data center visualization capability. After that, options may
include automated asset locator capabilities, capacity planning,
maintenance management, etc. Before a purchase is made, it is
imperative to take a holistic approach to management and operational
requirements. PTS helps clients make a good value judgment and
deploy appropriate solutions which meet client data center
management requirements.
To learn more about PTS recommended Data Center
Management or DCIM Solutions,
contact us
or visit
(in alphabetical order):
To learn more about PTS consulting services to
support Data Center Management or DCIM Solutions and the approaches
PTS takes to support data center management requirements,
contact us or visit:
Back to the Top
|
About Us
