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Converged Physical Infrastructure Management™ (CPIM™) Software Suite for Data Center Infrastructure Management

Managing the modern data center – and the rest of your IT physical infrastructure – has never been tougher than right now. Your IT team is being asked to create more business value for the organization than ever. The business units you serve are demanding more results than ever. Leaders want quantifiable gains from transformational “game changers” like SaaS and Cloud Computing while simultaneously expecting lower energy costs. Meanwhile, a number of global technological trends are converging to make conventional ways of designing, building and managing the data center not just inadequate, but obsolete.

The ground under you is shifting – rapidly.

You need a new model for physical infrastructure management. You need the Converged Physical Infrastructure Management™ (CPIM™) platform from iTRACS with Interactive 3D Visualization.

CPIM™ with Interactive 3D Visualization: The new standard in data center infrastructure management (DCIM).

CPIM™ is an enterprise-class data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software portfolio that is transforming the way organizations are managing and optimizing their physical infrastructure – enabling full leverage of today’s innovations in data center design and build. CPIM™ offers a best-of-breed management platform to help IT executives directly support the revenue and growth goals of the organization and drive a new level of operational value from the IT investment.

At the heart of the CPIM™ portfolio is Interactive 3D Visualization – The Efficiency Engine™. Interactive 3D Visualization is the world’s first and only holistic view of the data center using an interactive, navigable 3D environment that lets you point-and-click through the entire IT infrastructure. Giving you a rich understanding of – and control over – the complex web of interrelationships that exist between assets. And unleashing new opportunities to create efficiency and business value in the design, management, and optimization of the modern data center.

This isn’t business as usual in the data center.
This is iTRACS.
What Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) is meant to be.™

CPIM™: Driving a new level of performance, efficiency, and business value in the data center.

CPIM™ with Interactive 3D Visualization is leading the charge in data center infrastructure management (DCIM) as a true Change Agent and Value Creator. McKinsey & Company describes the emerging IT management model exemplified by iTRACS as combining “factory-style productivity to keep costs down with a more nimble, innovation-focused approach to adapt to rapid change” (McKinsey Quarterly, December 2010).

Applied to the unique challenges of IT physical infrastructure management, this new paradigm requires IT departments to adopt innovative “out of the box” strategies that transcend the inherent limitations of old-school infrastructure management:

1. Using automation, scale, and simplification to reduce complexity, maximize efficiency, optimize performance, and lower costs.

CPIM™ automates workflows, empowers knowledge-based decision-making, and maximizes operational efficiency. This level of automation is a far cry from the static decision-support tools, 2D spreadsheets, and error-prone manual tasks of the past. CPIM™ offers a uniquely holistic view of your IT assets within an interactive, navigable 3D landscape that gives you unparalleled point-and-click control over the complex interrelationships between assets that lie at the heart of your data center. You can pursue and optimize cloud computing, virtualization, green data center, and other challenges with unparalleled efficiency, agility, and time-to-value.

2. Using cost–benefit analyses and “what if” scenarios to better understand the implications of Change not just on the data center, but on the entire IT ecosystem.

The goal is to tangibly improve the cost efficiency of the IT investment while meeting the continuously-changing needs of the business units you serve. With our robust actionable insight and predictive “what if” scenarios, you can see the future – and optimize it – before it happens.

3. Finding new sources of value for IT and leveraging them to create competitive advantage for the organization.

This means looking under rocks and spurring innovation in ways previously unimaginable. Ideally, your IT team must exhibit a willingness to learn, test and grow. Unleashing the true strategic value of IT is why CPIM™ exists. But it requires vision and boldness.

CPIM™: A single platform for your entire physical infrastructure.

The proliferation of IP-enabled devices across the enterprise – from racks of servers in the data center to routers sitting in remote closets thousands of miles away – is creating new levels of convergence. The good news? Everything from the remote server to the HVAC system can now be networked, seen, and managed within the CPIM environment. So you can manage your entire global physical infrastructure as a single IP-connected environment.

The benefits of a converged management approach using a single integrated platform from iTRACS are unmistakable:

• Timely visibility into potential issues with the tools to quickly resolve them before they become problems
• Proactive vs. reactive posture in all aspects of management
• Ability to predict enterprise-wise impacts of Change beyond the data center
• Integrated “single pane” visibility into and management of the entire power chain so you can optimize energy efficiency not only in the data center, but across the entire building and facilities infrastructure
• Full capacity utilization of all resources (IT and building assets)
• Lower operational costs with direct bottom-line benefits
• Better lifecycle management of IT and building systems

The choice is yours.

There are two modules in the CPIM™ suite:

• iTRACS Converged Data Center™ (iCDC™). Designed for managing the physical infrastructure in today’s fast-moving, continuously-changing data centers.
• iTRACS Converged Building Systems™ (iCBS™). Designed for managing the physical infrastructure located outside the data center – in facilities either around the block or around the world.

Our two modules can be deployed either individually or together. So you can manage your assets either separately or within a holistic (single pane) view of the organization’s entire physical infrastructure. Each CPIM module is best-of-breed and meets the unique requirements of its specific targeted infrastructure. So you get the best of both worlds within a single platform. The choice is yours:

• You can deploy a converged solution right from the start, combining both iCDC™ and iCBS™ in a single platform that lets you manage both data center and other infrastructure from a single user interface and master database.
• Or you can begin with either iCDC™ or iCBS™ as a standalone solution, and then expand your CPIM environment later at a pace that fits your needs and budget. Your investment in CPIM is 100% preserved, as the additional module is simply added to your existing iTRACS platform.