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Do Datacenter and Facility Managers Really Care About Innovation?

Published: November 14 2012, 05:00 AM
by Jose Mora

The great thing about surveys is that they often confirm what you thought you already knew and every so often they reveal insights that were unexpected. Such is the case with today's release of the results of the IDC Global DCIM Survey, sponsored by CA Technologies*. The survey, administered to senior IT and facility managers, measured a variety of issues related to how IT and Facilities are responding to the increased need for faster deployment of new systems while maintaining or reducing costs associated with the datacenter. The ‘not so surprising' results? There are some serious barriers in the data center. Here are a few examples:

  • 84 % of datacenters have issues with datacenter power, space, and cooling that negatively impacted business operations
  • 57% of datacenter managers consider their datacenters to be inefficient or moderately inefficient
  • 63% do not have a standard set of management tools

There is a bright side, however. These same managers recognize that removing these datacenter barriers can have an impact in their business' ability to innovate, or perhaps better said, to execute on innovative ideas and projects. How?

A whopping 92% of datacenter managers told us they prefer an integrated datacenter infrastructure management approach.  They believe adopting automation with a DCIM solution, whether it's in incremental phases or taking a comprehensive deployment strategy, offers the potential to rollout new applications faster, improve customer service levels, and reduce unplanned OPEX allocations. That's good and it shows that datacenter managers recognize that better management of space, power, space and cooling capacity, assets, and uptime has a direct the link towards greater organization innovation and long-term business success.

Do you feel you're a steward of innovation? How do you compare with your peers? To find out visit: www.ca.com/dcim-survey.

 

 

*IDC White Paper Sponsored by CA Technologies, "The Datacenter's Role in Delivering Business Innovation:  Using DCIM to Provide a Common Management Approach," November 2012

 

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By: Jose Mora
Jose Mora is the Sr. Director for Solutions Marketing for CA Technologies Energy and Sustainability Business Unit. He is responsible for defining and driving product requirements, prioritization and execution for the CA Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and CA ecoSoftware product lines. His...
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The Servers and Equipments used in Data Centre and Server Rooms generates Lot of Heat and when these equipments are housed in the rack, manufacturer has to provide the system to take out the hot air and allow more cool air to enter front side of the Racks.

In this fast paced world, where every second decides the momentum of growth, no business can afford to mess with its computing power. With every moment passing by, the role of computing resources becomes more significant and indispensable.

The Servers and equipments will breathe Cool air from Front side and exhaust from the back side this forced cooling happens through suction (Front) and exhaust (Back) fans provided inside the Server/ Equipments by OEM The air acts as a heat transfer media to take out the heat from the internal components to the outside of the equipment.

As business demands multiply, it gets tougher to maintain a cost-effective data center that is agile enough to keep up. Today’s IT environments are complex, with endless combinations of platforms, systems and applications. All of this adds to the cost of provisioning and maintaining your data center. And yet, you still may not be realizing the full potential of your IT investments.

NetRack Understands challenges in high-density computing as this increase heat in the rack and Data Centre NetRack Thermal management Solutions are designed to handle large heat generated by IT equipments and Servers, by improving airflow in the racks and also prevent mixing of Cool and Hot air and ensures that your mission critical equipment runs cool with more reliability with an increased MTBF, saving energy costs and capital cost on the AC plant.

Data Center’s are a mission-critical facility. As consolidation, server virtualization, and cloud initiatives intensify, a silo-based approach to designing, deploying, and managing the physical infrastructure is becoming a costly and time consuming process. As a result of the constantly changing, complex IT landscape, data centers will continue to face unique demands on its physical infrastructure. A number of years ago, these requests would be unreasonable.

Posted by: Data center solutions | December 11, 2012 5:21 AM

By consistently monitoring energy efficiency can also be improved.Data Center Management and monitoring is important.

Posted by: banlin mithra | February 13, 2013 4:08 AM

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