What can data center infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions bring to managers?

Be too busy to save time

The efficiency of data center management can be measured by wasted time and money. In a recent survey, 200 data center managers from the US and UK said that using tools such as data center infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions could make their jobs "easier, faster, and cost-efficient".

If applying a DCIM solution can really save time and reduce operational costs, why did the survey find that 43% of data center managers still rely on artificial methods to replace DCIM? What is the reason for the use of DCIM?

No time or budget to implement DCIM

Intel commissioned the Redshift Research Institute to explore the methods and tools for capacity planning and forecasting used in today's data centers. The survey found that Microsoft Excel forms software is still popular, and nearly 10% of data center managers are still using the most traditional method of computing data center area expansion and layout adjustment. Only 55% of data center managers can benefit from the application of DCIM management tools.

Surprisingly, manual methods are not just a typical practice for small data centers. Even in large data centers with more than 1500 servers, the ratio of manual methods and data center infrastructure management Tools is only 43:55 (2% of the data centers surveyed are unsure of which tool to use or no planning or forecasting work).

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What are the two most common reasons for not using the DCIM management tool? 46% of managers who do not use DCIM think the program is expensive to implement. Another 35% of data center managers said they lacked the resources to implement the DCIM program.

Harvest

Initially, the lack of budget and the resources and time to implement the programme seemed to be the culprit for the DCIM programme. However, as the investigation progresses deeper, it reveals the truth about investing in DCIM solutions and their effects.

• The lack of DCIM tools has resulted in more time wasted. 56% of data center managers who rely on manual planning need to devote more than 40% of their time per month to capacity planning and forecasting.

• DCIM tools can effectively cut operational costs. of the users who use DCIM, 63% of users are effectively improving their cooling efficiency through DCIM analysis tools. These users are also more likely to implement hotspot audits and CFD simulations.

• users who do not have dcim,32% will not be able to collect relevant data that can be manipulated. Such data centers have little to do with common operational constraints, such as limited room space and power supply.

• the DCIM tool can quantify the cost of disruption in a run. 72% of DCIM users know the cost of a datacenter outage, and only 14% of users who don't have DCIM are aware of it. The survey results show that the average cost per datacenter outage is about $28,900, which remains a hidden cost for data centers that cannot quantify.

• The DCIM tool guarantees faster recovery times. the results show that the recovery time after the data center outage was averaged 7 hours and 53 minutes. 21% of users who use DCIM indicate less than 2 hours of running recovery time. Only 11% of non-DCIM data center users can achieve this recovery speed.

Conclusion

Today's data centres face many complex challenges that need to be constantly optimised to balance user needs and budgets, staffing and infrastructure. Recent findings clearly show that DCIM has become an efficient management tool for data center managers. It can provide managers with valuable information, effectively identify the problem ("Find the problem" is more smooth?) ) to help uncover real operational costs and real-world operational issues, such as abrupt outages in data centers.

Without DCIM solutions and associated automation management tools, data center managers have to spend more time managing, and inevitably, lack of sufficient information to address the challenges of capacity planning and allocation in data center operations.

Therefore, the research on DCIM solutions and cost issues should take full account of its long-term benefits, and this benefit has been fully substantiated. Otherwise the data center will be at risk of short-sighted. If the short-term costs of running a data center, including time and expense costs, can generate longer-term benefits, managers should not exclude them.

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Author Introduction:

Mr. Jefkraus is the general manager of Data Center Manager (DCM) solutions for Intel Corporation in the United States. At Intel Corporation, Jefkraus has more than 13 years of team management experience. His team is developing a middleware product for energy and thermal management. Mr. Jefkraus holds an MBA degree from Boston University in Business administration.

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What can data center infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions bring to managers?