Asset Location Management

When asked about top infrastructure management concerns, data center managers are quick to respond that “adequate monitoring and management capabilities” are their top priorities.

Over 30% of Attends’ 2010 Data Center Manager Survey respondents budgeted for improving physical asset management within the next 24 months.

“Every data center has potential areas of weakness, ranging from less-than-ideal security strategies to infrastructure issues, network glitches, and physical building problems. Unfortunately, there’s no single product that can ferret out all of the weaknesses, but there are tactics for finding points of failure, which is the first step in creating a more secure, reliable, and efficient data center.”
- Processor, September 2010.

Attend's AIM is the product that answers the need.

Attend's 2010 and 2011 surveys about physical asset and infrastructure management priorities of data center managers revealed that:

• Precise location management was a top concern for data center managers, followed by
• Security concerns regarding physical assets missing from the data center
• Finding assets quickly
• Change and Capacity Management

Download our IT Asset Management Resource Guide and our Data Center World Survey results here and learn more about your peers' concerns and how to address them.

Failure to coordinate and control data center assets inevitably leads to equipment losses which may go unnoticed for days and weeks, or even months and years. Assets are constantly moved, repaired, reconfigured, and retired or replaced. Data center moves and consolidations make it a challenge to track and monitor assets, unless data center managers have an automated process and tracking system in place.

Data center managers can now know at all times exactly which rack houses which server, even when servers are moved for repair, replacement or load rebalancing. AIM alerts you of unexpected asset moves equitment tampering.

Aside from ensuring operational performance and efficiency, an automated data center infrastructure management strategy helps you streamline inventory processes to comply with legal and financial auditing and reporting requirements, enhancing your ability to comply with government and accounting mandates.

AIM collects asset data by collecting and processing data in real time through the electronic tag attached to each server.