In case you hadn’t noticed, data centers aren’t cheap. Not only that, but they also support applications that are extremely important to your company or your customers.
Over the last several years, data center owners across the globe have demonstrated very responsible community awareness by implementing effective energy efficient “designs” in their critical facilities, often compromising capital and schedule objectives and assuming added risk to do so.
Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) has become the big “must have” on the data center project list despite the ongoing weak economic environment, or perhaps because of it.
An old economic adage says “there is no such thing as a free lunch.” This saying was responsive to a common practice among nineteenth century pre-prohibition bars that provided a spread of food to draw lunchtime drinkers.