数据中心的基础架构管理：
数据中心游戏改变者
数据中心基础设施管理 is taking the industry by storm. It is predicted that by 2014, 60% of corporations will have implemented the use of DCIM; a huge leap from the mere 1% in 2010. With statistics like these, there is no question that DCIM 不仅仅是绿色IT计划的分支。
最初创建是为了满足理解和减少能耗的需要， DCIM has evolved into a solution that integrates IT physical infrastructure management, facilities management, and systems management, transforming how the IT ecosystem is seen and managed. A true DCIM solution is a game-changer.
那么，这一切真的意味着什么？
数据中心基础设施管理，如果它是来自正确的供应商的正确解决方案，则可以提高数据中心的性能，效率和业务价值，并有助于使其与公司的需求和议程无缝地保持一致。
DCIM可以帮助决策者：
- 提供3维地图 数据中心 显示所有位置的基础架构 IT设备 和服务器位于。从而使技术人员更容易安装新设备，因为他们对设备的安装位置有明确的方向和想法。
- 使IT与业务需求保持一致，并创建一种可行的方式来保持这种保持一致，无论这些业务需求有多大的变化和增长
- 利用无与伦比的预测功能（包括使用“假设”场景）自动化容量规划。
- 在整个基础架构的集成“单个窗格”视图中可视化，定位和管理其所有物理资产。 DCIM 通过在单个监视器上显示整个基础架构，可以对数据中心的整个清单进行清晰的评估。
- 减少能源消耗，公用事业成本和碳足迹-拯救地球，同时潜在地节省数百万美元
- 允许 数据中心 技术人员可以监视单个服务器和设备，从而使员工有更多时间来响应设备的需求。
However, not all DCIM vendors are created equally. IT decision-makers must carefully evaluate the products and promises made by each vendor before being able to accurately choose an option to best fill their company’s needs. They must, essentially, strip away all of the misconceptions and myths that frequent the DCIM market.
实现方式：
与选择和实施最合适的产品一样重要 DCIM软件 是的，有一种适当的物理方法同样重要 移动和提升 内的服务器，机架和设备的数量 数据中心。没有雇用 适当的工具, the increased efficiency generated by the usage of DCIM软件 and technologies is diminished. Hence, completely undermining the original value created, consequently altering the actual level of efficiency and performance predicted. Bearing this information in mind, most Fortune 500 companies have come to realize the necessity of using a tool such as a ServerLIFT® server-handling device 协助维持整体效率和表现。将这些产品实施成 数据中心 不仅提高了效率，性能和安全性，还提高了整体HIPAA 数据中心 遵守。
底线：
The physical layer has increasingly become the single point of IT operational dependency in a world of increasing convergence. DCIM is the natural evolution of this process. The physical layer is now being treated with the same level of priority as the logical layer. Investments in managing the logical layer are shifting to investments in managing the physical layer.
DCIM as defined by Gartner as the integration of information technology (IT) and facility management disciplines to centralize monitoring, management and intelligent capacity planning of a data center’s critical systems. Achieved through the implementation of specialized software, hardware and sensors, DCIM will enable a common, real-time monitoring and management platform for all interdependent systems across IT and facility infrastructures.
