A data center can contain thousands of assets, from servers, storage and network devices to infrastructure support equipment such as Computer Room Air Conditioners, PDUs and UPSs. Keeping track of these assets is an ongoing task faced by data center managers around the world. A Digital Realty Trust survey found that only 26% of data center managers could locate a server that had gone down within minutes. Only 58% could locate the server within 4…

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Illuminating DCIM tools: Asset Management vs. Real-time Monitoring

In the news recently, there has been a lot of discussion around a new category of software tools focusing on unified facilities and IT management in the data center. These tools have been labeled by Gartner as Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM), of which Modius OpenData is a leading…

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Over the course of meeting with perhaps 100 customers over the last 6 months, it has become painfully clear to me that there is widescale and growing confusion about Real-Time Data Center…

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Having just returned from the Uptime event in NYC I have to admit I saw so very interesting advances in monitoring software. In fact it appears that the monitoring software is merging with asset management software to create and extremely versatile tool set for the data center and facility managers. By merging the two software applications the ability to perform capacity planning in a real time mode is now available. In addition to the capaicity planning I saw some great examples of… Continue