Media and Research

EMA Analyst Report
CommScope Expands into DCIM with the Acquisition of iTRACS

This analyst report from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) takes a close look at CommScope’s acquisition of iTRACS in March, 2013.

“The future of data center management – supporting eminently reliable and flexible architectures that maximize hardware densities and operational cost-effectiveness – will derive from the analytical and holistic visibility capabilities that are the cornerstone of DCIM. CommScope’s visionary perspective will encourage it to infuse iTRACS with the resources and direction necessary to expand the scope of the CPIM product set while maintaining its openness.”

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IDC Market Spotlight
Monetizing DCIM

This paper from IDC provides a framework for quantifying the value of datacenter infrastructure management (DCIM) investments and recommends several factors to consider in selecting a DCIM provider.
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Data Center Knowledge – Monthly iTRACS^® Column
Notes from the Road: Keep Your Servers Cool, And Your Business Hot

Gary Bunyan is Global DCIM Solutions Specialist at iTRACS, LLC, a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) company. This is the tenth in a series of columns by Gary about “the user experience”.

With more and more computing resources being deployed in denser and denser data center spaces, it’s no wonder data center professionals are focused on cooling. The data center is now at the epicenter of today’s hottest businesses, essential to their competitive positioning and market success. But no matter how dense the data center gets, its servers, blades, and other IT assets must be kept cool.

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Read Gary’s size other Data Center Knowledge columns here.

EMA Radar™ Report for Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)

EMA DCIM Radar Report Summary with iTRACS Profile – December 2012

EMA’s research objectively evaluates current DCIM vendors based on product performance, functionality, feature set, deployment methodology, and proven business value delivered to customers. iTRACS is recognized as the best-of-breed industry leader – at the very top of the food chain in DCIM performance – and is the only company to be given two separate awards by EMA: DCIM Value Leader and Best Visual Modeling. 

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451 Research Impact Report
iTRACS Helps Datacenter Operators Manage “The Interconnectedness of All Things^®“

451 Research takes an objective, in-depth look at iTRACS, noting the company’s competitive differentiation and leadership in interactive 3D visualization. “iTRACS has outstanding visualization technology, and appears to have a strong customer base of very large customers. It has genuinely differentiated technology in a market where innovation is limited.”

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iTRACS Newsletter Featuring Gartner Research
The Interconnectedness of All Things

This is the second in a series of thought leadership newsletters from iTRACS and Gartner. Contents include: The Interconnectedness of All Things, The Efficiency Mandate, Interactive 3D Visualization – The Efficiency Engine™, DCIM Business Output^®, and iTRACS Customer Value Lifecycle™. Also features Gartner research: The Top 10 Technology Trends for 2012.

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iTRACS Newsletter Featuring Gartner
Research Seeing Is Believing

This is the first in a series of thought leadership newsletters from iTRACS and Gartner. Contents include: The Data Center Like You’ve Never Seen It, iTRACS PowerEye™, Gartner Cool Vendors in DCIM Tools, 2011, and more.

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IDC MarketScape:
Worldwide Datacenter Infrastructure Management (DCIM) 2011 Vendor Analysis – excerpt

This is an excerpt from the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Datacenter Infrastructure Management (DCIM) 2011 Vendor Analysis by Katherine Broderick. It features IDC Opinion, In This Study, Situation Overview, Future Outlook, Essential Guidance, Synopsis, and iTRACS Review.

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Enterprise Technology Management (ETM) Magazine
The Evolution of Data Center Management

For its May, 2012 magazine on data center management, Enterprise Technology Management turned to two experts in energy efficiency and DCIM business use cases – iTRACS and Intel. Dan Fry of iTRACS and Jeffrey Klaus of Intel share their thoughts and experiences in a candid, information-rich interview.

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Data Center Dynamics
Focus on DCIM

Data Center Dynamics recently took a close look at the DCIM marketplace, with a full-page profile on iTRACS.

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Processor Magazine
DCIM Buying Guide

According to Willie Bloomstein, market strategist at iTRACS (www.itracs.com), must-have DCIM features include a highly scalable solution “with an open, heterogeneous platform architecture that parallels the approach used for the logical layer—a platform that integrates IT with facilities/building systems management and democratizes information across multiple constituents.”

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Computer Technology Review
Green Data Center: Myth vs. Reality

This article is the second in a three-part series exploring current myths in the data center. Part one explored DCIM myths. Part three will explore the myths surrounding convergence in the data center.

What’s a Green Data Center – and how do you measure how ‘green’ it really is? Ask 10 IT executives and you’ll undoubtedly get 10 different answers.

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Computer Technology Review
Data Center Infrastructure Management:
Myth vs. Reality

This article is the first in a three-part series exploring current myths in the data center. Part two will explore the myths of the green data center and part three, the myths surrounding convergence in the data center.

A lot of IT executives have been asking me questions about Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM), questions such as: “What is it and how can it improve the performance and business outcomes associated with my data center?”

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Wired Magazine
IT Minds Quest for ‘Holy Grail’ of Data-Center Metrics

What’s the best way to measure the efficiency of a data center? No one really knows. But there’s no shortage of IT minds trying to figure it out.

Last month, in partnership with Intel, data-center management software vendor iTRACS took up the challenge of developing a metric — a single number — that will allow data-center operators to assess the efficiency of their facilities relative to their bottom line, and the company is only the latest in a string of organizations trying to develop similar metrics. Industry coalition The Green Grid has been working on the problem for four years.

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CITO Research
Intel DCM and iTRACS:
Towards a New Efficiency Metric

Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) technology has made great strides in recent years, providing ever-more granular views into the use of electric power and computing capacity in data centers. With the rising cost of energy and the complexity of managing the explosion of new data sources and mobile applications, data center operators are under pressure to improve efficiency, agility, and dependability.

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