Data center management as a service publishes DCIM to the cloud
For organizations that want to use cloud computing technology, data center management as a service (DMaaS) is a feasible choice. Although these products have broad prospects for development, people are still worried about their costs and functions.
Data center facility management (DCIM) is transitioning from internal deployment design to cloud based data center management as a service (DMaaS), but with the competition between DMaaS products and internal deployment products, DMaaS products still face an uncertain future.
According to the data forecast, the market size of the global data center infrastructure management software in 2019 is 624 million dollars, an increase of 10% over the previous year. This year, it maintained stable growth, but still lower than the expectations of a few years ago.
The reason behind the slowdown of its market growth is that there are some obstacles in the adoption of DCIM products, and these tools may be difficult to deploy and use. DCIM software must be installed on each device in the data center, and a large number of settings are required to parse the collected information. Similarly, previously introduced software was built for a single data center and was not easy to scale to support multiple sites. With the advent of cloud computing technology, this setting has changed.
Zhan Jennifer Cooke, research director of IDC, said, "Cloud computing forces enterprises to understand how they deploy and maintain data center equipment." As a result, many companies move workloads from their data centers to third-party sites.
The emergence of cloud computing options
Therefore, DCIM based on cloud computing appears, which is regarded as data center management as a service (DMaaS). Rhonda Ascierto, vice president of research at Uptime Institute, a data center standards institution, said that, DMaaS products will be available at the end of 2016.
The suppliers of DMaaS products in the market include Nlyte Software, Schneider Electric Data4 and NTT Communications.
DMaaS has an updated architecture that can be easily deployed across any infrastructure connected to cloud computing. These services support various devices and user experiences such as smart phones and tablets, so managers can access the software immediately and monitor its infrastructure remotely only with a global Internet connection.
Enhanced data center management as a service
With cloud based infrastructure management, suppliers collect system usage information from many customers rather than isolated companies. Then, managers use suppliers' artificial intelligence and machine learning engines, and have a deep understanding of areas such as power demand, energy costs, cooling efficiency, asset management and carbon emissions.
Cooke said, "Predictive maintenance is a key area of cloud computing systems."
Enterprises are now updating their energy devices and server workloads on a set schedule, which may be inefficient use of hardware. With analysis, managers can view the current working mode of infrastructure and use this information to improve the operation plan. This allows IT teams to save energy costs, run more efficient data centers, and update the appropriate
