DCIM Software: Beyond Power and Cooling

Trevor Thompson, architecture consultant for Data Centers @ London Stock Exchange Group, talks with Digital Infra Network about how DCIM has a critical role to play in ensuring data integrity, confirming the accuracy and improving the efficiency of global business practices.

Digital Realty’s Director of DCIM Integration, Terry Riches, discusses with DIN his experience and insights of 20 years in the DCIM sector. We find out what are the key challenges in gathering the optimal sets of data and providing customers with actionable information. How does this enable them to make the best decisions as to where to place load and why this is, ultimately, driving economical and higher operational efficiency gains?

DCIM is having a lasting impact on the way digital infrastructure is designed and operated. Greg Johnson at Schneider Electric discusses with Digital Infra Network how DCIM is driving sustainability initiatives and looks to the future to predict how it will also help shape future trends in the data centre industry.

Deploying DCIM to mitigate risks requires an approach that understands ‘no one-size-fits all’. Having the right data centre infrastructure management solution to provide a level of real time situational awareness requires the federation of all the data available from its surrounding environment. Assaf Skolnik, CEO of RiT Tech, will discuss how their clients have proven that through integrations and customisations, a fit-for-purpose DCIM solution can deliver the vital intelligence on the inter-dependencies of IT assets, power and cooling to identify, monitor and manage potential risks to operational efficiency.

In this session, DCIM Manager @ Facebook, Dave Cole, talks to DIN Co-Founder Dan Scarbrough about how this service may have arrived with marketing hype and huge expectations but why its evolution has ensured that it continues to remain a vital part of driving sustainability and higher operational efficiency within the data center.

In this session, Data Center consultant Mark Acton speaks with Digital Infra Network about how the perception of DCIM has evolved and changed over the years, and why it continues to remain a vital cog in the management of the Data Center.