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Building a business case So the big question is, how can you accurately measure the return on investment (ROI) from DCIM? Some may say it’s still an expensive overhead and difficult to quantify when you utilise hardware assets from multiple vendors, but there’s magic in vendor-agnostic monitoring capabilities, which quickly address that barrier. Therefore, it could be that you calculate your


ROI by tracking the amount of downtime you’ve avoided, and the reputational damage or cost implications that may have impacted your


business. It could be via a reduction in power consumption, improved cooling efficiency and thereby reduced PUE. Maybe it’s the cost of your energy bills reducing,


or the ability to measure and lower the carbon impact of your IT estate? Or maybe, just maybe, it’s about mission-critical reliability, and how you use the insights gleaned to work with service partners to balance the cost of managing distributed sites. At EfficiencyIT, we’ve championed DCIM from


the start, consulting with our customers and helping them implement the software and gain the


best from its capabilities. More recently, we’re helping customers migrate, protecting their critical infrastructure and offering them data-driven insights when they need it most. With new investments being made all the time into data science and machine learning capabilities, we’re confident that finding an ROI is far more simple than many end-users realise. The most immediate and obvious benefit is


DCIM’s ability to provide real-time visibility, which is pivotal as we transition towards a greener, more sustainable and more digitally dependent future.


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