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TOP USE CASES FOR REMOTE
DATA CENTRE MANAGEMENT
WITH DCIM SOFTWARE
Data centre managers are under more pressure than ever
and need tools to provide complete visibility across the whole
facility. Herman Chan, President at Sunbird Software, tells us
why infrastructure teams should consider DCIM software to
help them achieve their core objectives of improving uptime,
utilisation and productivity.
The COVID-19 pandemic has driven
all interaction with the outside world
online, causing a dramatic spike in
the utilisation of server compute, storage
and network resources, and data centre
managers have been tasked to continue
providing the services the world desperately
needs, quickly expanding capacity while also
maintaining uptime and high availability.
To make this even more challenging, public
health guidelines and shelter-in-place orders
have required data centre managers to
reduce the number of people in the data
centre to the bare minimum. In this ‘new
normal’, remote data centre management
tools have provided total visibility into
global data centre footprints from anywhere
at any time.
Even before the pandemic, remote data
centre management was a trending topic
due to trends such as moving to colocation
or implementing Edge Computing, where
many remote sites need to be centrally
managed. With COVID-19, remote data
centre management is now an absolute
necessity to maintain uptime and Business
Continuity while reducing the staff required
to go on-site.
Data centre professionals now need to
leverage a wide range of technologies in
their remote data centre management
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IN THIS ‘NEW
NORMAL’, REMOTE
DATA CENTRE
MANAGEMENT
TOOLS HAVE
PROVIDED TOTAL
VISIBILITY
INTO GLOBAL
DATA CENTRE
FOOTPRINTS
FROM ANYWHERE
AT ANY TIME.
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