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Automation The Big Picture Agent of Change |
The Future of Data Center Infrastructure Management – Available Today
iTRACS Converged Data Center™ (iCDC™) is transforming the way organizations around the world are managing and optimizing their physical infrastructure in the data center.
Tailored specifically to the needs of fast-moving enterprises, iCDC offers a best-of-breed data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software platform to help IT executives directly support the goals of the organization – and drive a new level of operational value from the data center investment.
iCDC is built upon three disciplines where iTRACS has leveraged our technical expertise and unique understanding of the data center to create unparalleled business value for our customers: Visibility, Management, and Optimization.
Visibility
iCDC offers a holistic, interactive 3D representation of the entire data center ecosystem. It understands and shows you with real-time 3D visibility:
- How all of the physical infrastructure in your data center fits together
- Their interdependencies – how a change in one asset ripples across the data center with impacts not just in technology, but in people and processes
- The impact of your assets (physical layer) on your applications (logical layer)
And iCDC shows you all of this with rich, interactive 3D visualization that leaves no room for misunderstandings or misinterpretations as to what is happening. This unique level of visibility lets you manage your data center with unprecedented agility as it continuously adapts to the organization’s business goals and demands.
Managing smarter and faster with iCDC.
Energy management. Reducing energy consumption and costs – priority #1 in data centers worldwide.
Asset management. Optimizing the utilization of assets throughout their lifecycles, from acquisition to decommissioning.
Availability management. Proactively identifying the impact of failures and maintenance outages on data center service levels.
Risk management. Establishing controls and records-keeping to meet regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, etc.
Service management. Monitoring the satisfaction of service requests to identify gaps and implement corrective actions where needed.
Supply chain management. Improving coordination of equipment delivery and disposal, resolving bottlenecks that can increase operating costs.
IT automation. Automating the planning and execution of infrastructure service requests, eliminating manual steps and speeding time-to-delivery.
Management
iCDC offers intuitive, holistic control over the intersection of technology, people, and process that lies at the heart of your data center – an intersection that changes fluidly on a daily, hourly, sometimes minute-by-minute basis. At the core of CPIM is a real-time repository of IT physical infrastructure information, encompassing equipment (components), connectivity (power and network), location, and operational data. Because CPIM software can see all assets and their interrelationships using this master database, it can help you plan and execute vital data center initiatives – from virtualization to power management – with a new level of speed, agility, automation, and efficacy.
- Frees you to manage and optimize the data center with point-and-click ease
- Provides automated workflows for many tasks that other systems make you handle manually
- Creates scheduled work orders for complex data center initiatives – automatically
- Helps ensure that work is conducted smoothly between departments – and that the entire IT staff understands the impact of even the smallest change to the physical infrastructure
Need to add servers to support a new business application? With a few clicks of a mouse, iTRACS can scan the entire data center, confirm how many servers you’ll need, and locate the best available rack space. It can then tell you the specific power and network connectivity requirements for each server and create work orders right down to each port on each device – automatically.
Optimization
iCDC is all about managing Change. How can you best see it coming? Prepare for it? Respond to it? And predict its impact? Changes are bombarding the data center from all angles – the changing needs of the business units you serve, paradigm shifts like cloud computing and virtualization, the push towards the green data center, and much more.
Unlike conventional data center management tools, iCDC is built specifically to handle Change in all its myriad forms. In this new paradigm, optimizing the data center is all about managing Change:
- Leveraging a holistic, in-context representation of your physical infrastructure to do predictive modeling of “what if” scenarios
- Building intuitive “trial and error” models that test and confirm the impact that changes to the physical layer have on your logical layer, where the heart of the business value lies
- Doing all of this testing and predictive modeling of Change not in the lab or on the floor, but in iTRACS software – where it’s absolutely harmless – you simply point and click
iCDC allows you to model proposed changes, created scheduled work orders, and review “what if” scenarios without impacting the live data center. We’ll show you what the future looks like before it actually becomes the future. So you can fine tune configurations, identify and correct mistakes, avoid misinterpretations, and dodge other unintended consequences that impact success. Whether you’re trying to reduce energy bills, consolidate servers, or go green. You can feel confident making changes, knowing that iCDC has taken all inter-dependencies and asset relationships into account.
Your choice of deployment.
You can deploy iCDC™ as a standalone solution for your data center, or you can combine it with iTRACS iCBS™ in an integrated enterprise-wide platform that lets you manage physical infrastructure both within and outside the data center using a single user interface and a single master database.
Either way, your investment in iTRACS CPIM™ software is 100% protected, as it’s easy to integrate additional capabilities or modules into your existing iTRACS platform.
