ten steps to increasing data center efficiency and visibility through infrastructure monitoring
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You can't manage what you don't monitor. That's why infrastructure monitoring is essential to data center optimization. In the new white paper Ten Steps to Increasing Data Center Efficiency and Visibility through Infrastructure Monitoring, Emerson Network Power outlines what you should be monitoring, how you should monitor it, and the results you can expect. By following the 10 steps, you can: Automate data collection and alarm management Improve infrastructure efficiency Measure the return of energy efficiency initiatives Increase the value of virtualization and consolidation efforts Improve planning Take the proactive approach to infrastructure monitoring. Use the short form on the right to download your free white paper to enable increased efficiency, better planning and higher levels of availability in the data center.For more information, visit: http://info.emersonnetworkpower.com/content/lna-10q3-ads-monitoring-startTRANSCRIPT
™A White Paper from the Expertsin Business-Critical Continuity
Ten Steps to Increasing Data Center Efficiency and Availability through Infrastructure Monitoring
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Summary
The first decade of the 21st century was one of rapid growth and change for data centers. For most of the decade, data center managers were forced to react to rapid, continuous changes dictated by the capacity and availability requirements of their organizations, and the density of the equipment being deployed to meet those requirements.
Now, data centers must enter a new stage of maturity marked by a more proactive approach to management to enable increased efficiency, better planning and higher levels of service. Achieving actionable visibility into data center operations requires the ability to collect, consolidate and analyze data across the data center, using advanced devices, sensors and management software.
The ten steps outlined in this paper provide a systematic approach to building the foundation for data center infrastructure management by deploying and leveraging measurement, intelligent controls and centralized monitoring and management. Data centers employing these 10 prescribed point solutions for infrastructure performance monitoring stand to gain an operational, strategic and transformative advantage for their enterprise or business.
Through these 10 steps, data center managers can automatically collect data from infrastructure systems and sensors placed strategically within the physical space and use this data to gain higher availability, increase efficiency, enhance the value of virtualization and consolidation efforts and improve planning.
1. Sensing temperatures
2. Monitoring power
3. Monitoring rack conditions
4. Detecting fluid leaks
5. Intelligent control of precision cooling
6. Intelligent control of critical power
7. Managing alerts and alarms
8. Monitoring energy efficiency
9. Monitoring batteries
10. Monitoring and managing remotely
For more information, visit:
http://info.emersonnetworkpower.com/content/lna-10q3-ads-monitoring-start