Will you be using a DCIM solution within 2 years?

While many management organizations have already invested in technology resources (people, processes and tools) to manage data center infrastructure, critical gaps still remain in the physical infrastructure, virtual infrastructure and IT workloads. The Trellis platform provides a fundamentally new perspective on managing the entire data center in that it recognizes:

• The importance of real-time data to understand the true capacity of available infrastructure
• The criticality of interdependencies between logical and physical layers
• The need for holistic management capabilities and visibility of IT and physical infrastructures
• The need for more powerful management tools that offer a rich, visual view of the infrastructure and can guide design and change management

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This FREE event is open to End Users ONLY

Measurable Cost Savings In The Data Center

April 17, 2012

Radisson Valley Forge

King of Prussia, PA

7:30 AM to 3:30 PM

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The Vendor Technology Forum is a first of its kind event for the Delaware Valley Chapter, with an End User only audience. End Users will see six presentations from Vendors discussing leading edge innovation that produces Measurable Cost Savings In The Data Center. Attendance is free to End Users. Attend this forum to learn what is next for cost savings in your Data Center, network with your End User peers in the industry, and interact with leading solutions providers.

DCIM is getting the IT infrastructure layer and the physical infrastructure layer to operate as one.  It's essentially virtualizing the physical infrastructure, just like what has happened to the IT infrastructure layer.  Covering this gap is very broad, so in order for that to happen you still need to draw boudaries.  What is your DCIM strategy?

The DCIM market is moving full steam ahead.  Steve Hassell, president of Emerson's DCIM division, Avocent, and Kevin Brown, VP of Data Center Global Offer at Schneider Electric, put their top DCIM questions to each other in this Data Center Infrastructure Management discussion.

Check out the questions below.

What are you hearing from CIOs as to the critical needs driving them to better manage their physical infrastructure and integrate that with the logical systems infrastructure?

How does a customer get started with a DCIM implementation?

Traditional data center design practices have involved several levels of power margins resulting in stranded capacity and lower efficiency.  How can DCIM help recapture some of that capacity without compromising availability?

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What is your DCIM strategy?

The Data Center industry is in need of of a solution that bridges the IT and facilities systems and provides data in appropriate interfaces across IT and facilities groups.  A holistic DCIM strategy is a data center manager’s best partner in meeting the stringent business demands in a modern-day data center environment. To successfully implement a DCIM strategy, data center managers must be on the lookout for the best family of hardware, software and services that allows them to address the critical infrastructure gap.

A new perspective on managing the critical infrastructure gaps is emerging that recognizes:

• The importance of real-time data to understand the true capacity of available infrastructure
• The criticality of interdependencies between logical and physical layers
• The need for holistic management capabilities and visibility of IT and facilities infrastructures
• The need for more powerful management tools that offer a rich, visual view of the infrastructure and can guide design and change management

Is DCIM the monitoring, collection and analysis of real-time, continuous, accurate information from an intelligent infrastructure that allows for immediate action, designed to keep the data center in an optimal state of balance between availability, efficiency and capacity?   Is it a framework for operating the data center?

What are your thoughts?