Dependable data center infrastructure is more important than ever when operating in a complex and challenging environment where the demands for security, speed and reliability are tested with every transaction and interaction. Organizations are also realizing that well-managed data centers can make a significant impact to their bottom-line by enabling them to respond more quickly to market demands.
The Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) professionals from CA Services have the expertise and skills to implement a solution that enables you to effectively manage your three biggest data center infrastructure management challenges: power and cooling, capacity and inventory, and IT and business facility resources.
IT and facilities are experiencing unprecedented pressure to improve uptime, reduce power and free up capacity. Over the next five years, new deployment models such as cloud, outsourcing, hosting and co-location will continue to challenge the data center’s typical mode of operation.
Even as these demands escalate, data centers are often challenged by capacity limitations. Power and cooling constraints limit the ability to deliver on new business requirements. Uptime and availability are lowered when power is not dependable. Service quality and SLAs are put at risk, and the lack of detailed insight into consumption leads to unnecessary costs. A demanding operating environment requires leaders to overcome challenges such as:
CA Data Center Infrastructure Management (CA DCIM) can help by bringing together facilities and IT in a software solution that stresses availability, efficiency and cost savings. CA DCIM helps decision-makers to more effectively understand energy consumption and use, visualize data center space, place and locate data center assets, manage asset lifecycle, perform root-cause analysis and plan capacity.
Unified DCIM.
Reduces separately administered data, systems and tools. Provides automated access to live and historical reporting.
Automated data collection, calculations and monitoring.
Supports a variety of communication protocols and metrics calculations based on built-in and/or custom elements.
Automated intelligent alerting of conditions and reliability.
Automatic detection and intelligent alerts of undesirable energy or environmental conditions.
Capacity-and inventory-aware infrastructure management.
IT asset and rack capacity planning, access to information regarding current capacity, asset listing and device locations. Locate and track assets, and report device configuration and service history.
Visualization of energy, power and space within the data center.
Three-dimensional view of data center layout and asset inventory locations. Graphical navigation to simplify location of specific facility or devices and alarms. Plan rack placement based on available excess cooling and power. Real-time monitoring and resource management.
With foundation services for CA DCIM, CA Services rapidly creates and deploys this webbased centralized solution so you gain and maintain insight and control. This implementation speeds solution deployment, reduces loss of workforce productivity and accelerates time-to-vale to get you up and running quickly. You can then extend the value of your solution by adding acceleration services designed to meet the unique demands of your environments.
The technology is implemented in a scalable configuration for any environment that provides data center device discovery and monitoring, intelligent alerting, IT asset, baseline trending reporting and 3D modeling of data center through intuitive dashboards.
The following components are included:
Acceleration services for CA DCIM enable you to add functionality to your foundation implementation to extend the value of the solution.
CA DCIM multisite, distributed site monitoring acceleration services.
Functional acceleration services providing support for multisite and distributed site enterprise and data center monitoring
CA DCIM site IT rack building acceleration service.
Functional acceleration services providing support to configure the DCIM solution by loading customer-provided rack asset and data center device location information associating with DCIM database modeling
CA DCIM site rack asset port mapping acceleration service.
Functional acceleration services providing support to configure network and power cable connectivity IT assets within rack
CA DCIM mobile device dashboards acceleration service.
Functional acceleration services providing support for enabling access to real-time alerts, data and metrics for mobile users
CA DCIM third party BMS/EMS integration acceleration service.
Functional acceleration services providing support for integration services to import and mapping of existing external energy data to DCIM solution for historical capacity, trending and reporting purposes
CA DCIM third party asset/CMDB integration acceleration service.
Functional acceleration services providing support for integration services to import and map existing external energy data to DCIM solution for asset management, lifecycle and capacity purposes
Additional customized DCIM configuration services.
Functional acceleration services providing support to deliver client-specified staff augmentation services not specified in the foundation or acceleration services