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Tap the full business value of your data center Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software is critical
Managing energy and operational costs As enterprise-wide operational expenses have skyrocketed, business executives have turned to their data centers as a viable source of both CapEx and OpEx savings. The key? Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software. Advanced DCIM tools can cut costs by extending the life of existing data center physical infrastructure, simplifying planning and operational processes, cutting energy across facilities and IT, and enabling proactive monitoring to protect valuable business uptime.
As the all-encompassing “layer” to an integrated data center physical infrastructure, Schneider Electric™
StruxureWare for Data
Centers software, for example, can help companies yield a 10 to 20 percent initial CapEx savings. End-to-end visibility allows managers to make informed capacity decisions in order to adjust the existing data center physical infrastructure (DCPI) to support increased IT loads. These adjustments help optimize capital by delaying further CapEx.
Gone are the days of overbuilding upfront to buffer system risks. More power, more cooling, more real estate. This over-provisioning approach resulted in inefficient, costly, and monolithic data centers. Today, DCIM software makes the trite-but-true saying “do more with less” possible.
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Changing data centers from cost centers to producers of business value is imperative.
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