DATA CENTRES
30 was a very exciting prospect . Its advocates ( including early DCIM software providers like Rackwise ) claimed their software would solve all the pain points caused by siloed management structures , while automating lots of expensive and time-consuming processes . It was going to boil the ocean .
Unfortunately , the results didn ’ t exactly live up to the hype . In an interview last year , Kevin Brown , SVP or EcoStruxure Solutions and CMO of the Secure Power Division at Schneider Electric , spoke about the early frustrations that the DCIM industry encountered . “ We came to the conclusion that a lot of the DCIM vendors , us included , had been focusing on the wrong things ,” he explained . “ We were all chasing very high-end features , so tools were over-designed and difficult to use so it was hard to get started . It was difficult to scale and maintain and it was expensive , so these were all pain points we had to solve . We were also focusing heavily on enterprise data centres , and ultimately all these features started driving us and driving the market .” Any market that defines its trajectory by its bells and whistles ,
“ The value of DCIM was apparent , but the broad and scattered definitions caused problems for early adopters ”
— Herman Chan , President , Sunbird Software
OCTOBER 2020