Datacenters: manage your physical IT equipment

19 March 2009, 9:55am

With increasing reliance on Information Technology and volumes of data the datacenter is becoming more important to major organizations. With energy costs rising and pressure on expenditure it is now difficult, but essential, to optimize resources within a datacenter.

To increase the efficiency and optimize resources the datacenter manager has to answer three important questions:
• Where is my IT equipment located and in which environment (servers, bays, computers, cables, connectors, etc.)?
• What is the capacity and energy consumption of my equipment (from the rack to the connector)?
• How are my devices connected and linked?

STAR-APIC offer a new approach to managing the physical IT equipment within datacenters: with CABLE One DataCenter location matters!

CABLE One DataCenter: a complete solution to control the physical datacenter
The CABLE One DataCenter expert module allows you to locate geographically your physical IT equipment. It gives you an instant and up to date view of the whole datacenter.
The tool, which is flexible and can be customized, helps to control risk, and manage investment and performance costs. It also simplifies work for support teams.

CABLE One DataCenter: a corporate solution
CABLE One DataCenter brings benefit to the whole enterprise:

CABLE One DataCenter for Information System Managers
CABLE One DataCenter brings better control of the physical datacenter:
- by managing risks and guaranteeing quality of service;
- by anticipating investment needs, simplifying budgeting and providing quick and simple answers to finance departments;
- by reducing working costs, optimizing space, power, material and human resources;
- by optimizing the workload of operational teams.

CABLE One DataCenter for the Datacenter Manager
CABLE One DataCenter simplifies management of physical equipment by:
- offering remote visualization of the status, connection and location of all equipment;
- providing safe and efficient intervention in case of service interruption;
- optimizing capacity and capabilities by simplifying management of changes;
- automating reports and audits, saving time and reducing sources of error.

CABLE One DataCenter for other parts of the company
- IT Department; it can manage IT beyond the datacenter, even to a user’s computer.
- Finance Department; it simplifies internal control of IT equipment (for example within the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley act).
- Purchasing Department; it helps manage investments, allows better budgeting and better negotiation with suppliers.
- Facility Managers; it offers space optimization and management of security equipment.


Benefits
Strategic benefits
- Improved investment planning;
- Improved efficiency and continuity;
- Improved decision making.


Financial benefits
- Reduced working costs;
- Optimized supplier management;
- Improved charging of IT services.

Operational benefits
- Optimized allocation of space and power;
- Reduced manual intervention improves continuity of service;
- Faster reactions to changes and incidents.

Convinced users
Major global corporations in the Telecom, Banking and Energy fields, among others, manage their datacenters with CABLE One DataCenter.

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