Tuesday 18 February 2014

Data Center Infrastructure Management(DCIM) : A Intelligent IT Product

Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) is a group of solutions which were generated to enlarge the conventional data center management function to include all of the resources and physical assets found in the IT domains and Facilities. Installation of DCIM over time will combine facility management and information technology domains to intelligent capacity planning of a data center's critical systems and centralize monitoring, management . Since DCIM is a largely used term which includes a wide range of data center management values.

Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) is a comparatively young term that represents an emerging class of Information Technology physical infrastructure solutions, one that has already generated enormous market.

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When DCIM is the right solution from the right vendor the it can optimize the efficiency, performance and business value of IT physical infrastructure and keep it constantly aligned with the business needs. 

Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) is the connection of building facilities and Information Technology functions among the organization. To provide administrators with a complete view of a data center's performance so that equipment, energy and floor space are used as efficiently as possible is the only goal DCIM has.
DCIM began as a part of building information modeling software, which can be used by facilities managers to create building digital schematic diagrams. DCIM tools bring the same capabilities to data centers, authorizing administrators to assemble, store and analyze data associated to cooling and  power in real time.
This tools can help administrators to locate and identify the relationships between IT system and its  buildings 
Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tools are used to measure,  monitor, manage and control data center utilization and energy consumption of all equipment's (such as storage, servers and network switches) and facility infrastructure components (such as computer room air conditioners and power distribution units).
According to a top global research firm total DCIM market globally is forecasted to grow from $307 million in 2011 to $3.14 billion in 2017. This constitutes a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 47.33% from 2011 to 2017 according to a report of top research firm. According to the current scenario, banking continues to be the largest user for DCIM. In terms of geographies, the biggest market for DCIM software and services is North America. In the next five years, Asia-Pacific (APAC) will be the biggest DCIM market globally.

The major things that drives the market are factors such as sustainable IT and availability, which will positively impact the data center infrastructure management market because of the global push for the usage of Green data centers. 

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