Description
The data center and IT infrastructure landscape continues to advance swiftly in response to burgeoning connectivity and digital transformation demands. The accelerated development of hybrid IT environments, encompassing data centers, cloud platforms, and edge computing solutions, is necessitating enhanced monitoring and management of increasingly complex IT infrastructure. Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) systems were introduced to address these challenges, offering sophisticated software solutions for monitoring, measuring, and managing data centers and IT infrastructure, including essential support systems like power and cooling. Over time, DCIM software has evolved alongside the rapid expansion of data consumption and server consolidation in data centers. Enhancements have been incorporated to support IT space planning and address critical power and cooling specifications. Concerns about data center efficiency have led to the creation of a new metric, Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), which has broadened DCIM’s role from being merely a monitoring and management tool to also encompassing planning and modeling capabilities.
