TECH & AI
DCIM AND SUSTAINABILITY
Known commonly now as ‘ hybrid IT ’ environments , data centre management continues to grow more complex as new technologies develop .
In 2022 , Schneider Electric ’ s Marc Garner told Data Centre Magazine that the emergence of hybrid IT and edge computing resulted in “ data centre software [ having ] to evolve again to meet the new challenges posed to owners , operators and CIOs .
“ HPE states that while in 2000 , enterprise software was entirely hosted at the core of the network , by 2025 , 20 % of IT will be hosted in the core , 30 % in the public cloud and 50 % at the edge .”
Today , DCIM is evolving to meet greater visibility and monitoring needs
Those within the data centre industry are under immense pressure to comply with new sustainability initiatives such as the EU Code of Conduct for Energy Efficiency in Data Centres and The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact .
In order to increase their efficiency , data centre leaders are turning to DCIM software in order to mitigate environmental concerns .
An effective DCIM platform gathers and consolidates information regarding performance , energy usage , environmental conditions and network status within a data centre . It provides data centre managers with a single source of information for everything that is ongoing within the facility . datacentremagazine . com 117