Overview: Data Center Infrastructure Management

Data Center Knowledge (Jan 27 2011) Monitoring , Cloud Computing

1. From established solutions to new entries, the Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) market is moving fast, as data center managers demand greater insight into the complex environments they manage. Last year Gartner predicted a 60 percent market penetration of DCIM by 2014, driven by increased power and heat density, data center consolidation, virtualization and cloud computing. Definition and Incumbents Popular enough to have its own Wikipedia page, DCIM is defined by Gartner as the integration of information technology(IT) and facility management disciplines to centralize monitoring, management and intelligent capacity planning of a data center’s critical systems. (Read Full Article)

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