Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Data Center World Spring 2012

We've been attending Data Center World Spring 2012 the last few days and DCIM seems to be the breakout technology/buzzword this year.  The number of vendors with DCIM offerings is impressive.  As data center managers have made improvements to cooling hardware, implemented containment solutions, etc. it seems that environmental data gathering, analysis and infrastructure control is now the low hanging fruit in pursuit of greater data center efficiency.

The feature sets vary considerable among the products we saw and time will tell which will ultimately dominate the DCIM market.  Our prediction is that several contenders will emerge with the key differentiators being price point and feature sets optimized for the small, medium and large enterprise markets.

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