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Someday soon the digital economy will be powered by big blackboxes, formerly known as datacentres, that are so self-managing they may be partly robotic. Achieving this goal requires power and cooling systems that are asflexible as Clouds. As future users shift and expand workloads in a datacentre , they will need an ability to move power and cooling resources tomatch server demand. The tools for accomplishing such tasks are part of an emergingcategory called Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM).
The integrated DCIM tools are designed to let users know the stateof every piece of equipment in a datacentre - and how every watt ofpower in a datacentre is being used. Emerson Network Power, a major supplier of datacentre power andcooling systems, this week released its DCIM software platform,called Trellis. Emerson officials say that the development of the Trellis platformhas has been a major initiative for the company. Emerson began talking about Trellis nearly two years ago, not longafter it acquired Aperture Corporation for an undisclosed sum in2008, and Avocent Corporation for $US1.2 billion in 2009. Both firms made tools for monitoring and managing various pieces ofdata center infrastructures.
Emerson Network Power's Avocent business president, Steve Hassell,said the Trellis platform consists of more than a million lines ofcode, and involved shrinking down technology long managed via a KVMswitch to a size that can be managed on a chip. The platform includes a universal management gateway that acts as atranslator to gather proprietary or open information from anydevice in a data center and convert it into data supported byTrellis. Oracle Fusion Middleware serves as the platform backbone. The inability to track all datacentre assets as well as measurepower needs causes IT managers to often add large amounts of powercapacity to give themselves margin.
"The part we are trying to fix is conundrum between balancingavailability and efficiency," said Hassell. Andy Lawrence, an analyst at 451 Research, said, "The basicchallenge of DCIM is really to try to monitor accurately and inreal time all the different pieces of equipment in a data center,"including power consumption, air pressure and temperature. There have been monitoring devices in the market for years, as wellas systems that optimize cooling, noted Lawrence. "Companies are now trying to get an integrated view," he said. The DCIM market is small but expanding, according to 451 Research.
The company forecasts the worldwide DCIM software market will be$US427 million in 2012 and will grow at 39 per cent a year to reachnearly $1.3 billion in 2015. A major driver for DCIM is capacity planning, said Lawrence. If a datacentre over-provisions or under-provisions, the cost offixing the problem can be between $US10 million to $US20 millionper megawatt, he said. Proper capacity planning is one way to realize a return on DCIM.
Others include better cooling management to keep from over or undercooling systems. As datacentres increasingly add higher densityequipment, Lawrence believes they may also become more vulnerableto any kind of instability and outages. Datacenters will also need higher levels of efficiency asvirtualisation makes them more dynamic, said Lawrence. "It will bevery difficult not have DCIM [in these environments]," he said. Trellis is shipping with four software applications that can trackinventory, report on the health of the infrastructure, managechanges and calculate total data center energy consumption.
The Trellis platform is built in a modular fashion to make iteasier to add new capabilities. Future releases include a "virtualinsight manager", that will detail VM usage. Patrick Thibodeau covers SaaS and enterprise applications,outsourcing, government IT policies, data centers and IT workforceissues for Computerworld. Follow Patrick on Twitter at @DCgov , or subscribe to Patrick's RSS feed . His e-mail address is.
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