In the last five years, data center infrastructure management (DCIM) has emerged as a discipline for managing critical infrastructure. DCIM promotes centralized data collection in order to gain a single source of truth for planning and management in the data center. The goal is to aid the decision-making process by providing accurate, real-time information in a useful and meaningful way. DCIM offers a route to integrating facilities and IT operations, enabling communication and collaboration between these organizations that lead to optimized performance, capacity and availability.

Out-of-control data centers that lack reliability and proper security often result in systemic instances of lost productivity and operational cost overruns. By proactively enabling services for controlling access to the infrastructure and monitoring for activity, management decisions can be made to improve data center services that more effectively meet organizational requirements.

Achieving Data Center Optimization with Visual Modeling

Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) enables colocation providers to optimize every aspect of the IT and facilities infrastructure from physical and virtual inventory to power and cooling systems. DCIM monitors the entire infrastructure and combines real-time, detailed data about every asset with sophisticated analytics, visualization tools and reporting to facilitate far more accurate power, capacity and cooling management.

The Facts About KVM over IP, Bandwidth and Video

In this report, ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) analysts examine how the Avocent solution tackles these vital demands of healthcare IT. Avocent provides a single, centralized resource for managing a wide range of IT environments, with out-of-band access capabilities that expand assurance of always-on availability and compliance-supporting security and resilience built in.

As we look out into future of the IT infrastructure landscape, it is becoming ever clearer that we are reinventing our past. The legacy of the IT industry took shape around the concepts of centralized computing, in which the computing intelligence was warehoused in a consolidated fashion in data centers filled with mainframes, and the user was relegated to the large “green screen” entry terminals where the data was entered at the desk but stored back in the data center.

Best Practices in Data Center Power Management

So how secure is a secure KVM switch? It depends less on the device and more on how the specifications in its PP, ST, and Validation Report align with an agency’s needs, policies, technology, and requirements.

Challenges and solutions for centralized remote office management.

Best Practices to Control Your Data Center

Cloud computing implementations have the potential to drive significant improvements in operational efficiency and reductions in operational expenditures.

How IPMI can help you better manage more infrastructure with fewer resources.

Virtualization technology offers cost savings through server consolidation and increased efficiency–but only if your IT staff can meet the management challenges it presents.

Getting a handle on power means installing tools that help you not only measure consumption but also right-size your electrical infrastructure and increase uptime.

Hub and spoke failover architecture, virtual media, exit macros and other security elements you should insiston in a KVM over IP switching system for your health care network.

The U.S. Government, other country governments and commercial customers have mandated IPv6 compliance for all network equipment (and software applications where applicable).

Technology: Manage IT Assets and Power Consumption to Control Complexity

A practical guide to VMWARE ownwership.

A market position paper from the experts in secure KVM switching.

In this Enterprise Management Associates^® (EMATM) white paper, EMA expands its popular IT Management Maturity Model into a Prescriptive Model that provides actionable steps for optimizing Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM).

The following paper discusses the considerations that need to be made while choosing the appropriate power distribution products at the rack level. Interestingly enough, several of these considerations also help data center operators manage and control the largest portion of data center power consumption, which are the actual IT loads.

Enterprise Management Associates^® (EMA™) analysts explore a pragmatic view of data center management in order to deliver the best practices in real-world data centers for over-arching management solutions.

Organizations must secure systems remotely without compromising the computing experience, hampering administration or adding unnecessary costs.

For agencies and departments that understand the risks as well as the best practices necessary to address them, a Cloud approach affords flexible capacity and maximum availability and ensures any new capital expenditures are allocated toward creating innovation, continuity and driving competitive advantage.

While cloud computing offers a number of long-term benefits over traditional, distributed computing architectures, enterprises should not discount the significant risks. Understanding that business-critical applications and data have made network infrastructures more vital than ever, enterprises can take steps now to optimize their data center infrastructures before experimenting with cloud computing.

The Avocent ACS advanced console server offers the most feature-rich set of capabilities in modern console servers. The ACS console server provides the scalability, reliability and security a company requires to control and manage servers and other networked devices.

USB as a security risk.

Today’s data centers are no longer just an enabler to the business; they can often provide corporations with competitive advantages and are the underpinnings to corporate success.

Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) offers IT service improvements that can greatly improve the value of technology investments to the business through each phase of data center maturity.

Capitalizing on its deep infrastructure management expertise, Emerson Network Power offers a unified, scalable solution to solve the problems of managing today’s complex, heterogeneous and geographically dispersed data centers. The solution is both hardware and software architected together to deliver unified management of the data center’s IT and facilities infrastructure.

A Guide to Secure, Consolidated Remote Server Management

VIRTUAL MEDIA: Optimizing the Efficiency and Security of Data Center Operations