Change Management, Rack Density and Capacity Management

Data centers are increasingly more difficult to manage. The rate of change and increase in service levels is ever-expanding, making change management far more complex. In addition, requests for reliable, secure, timely and accurate asset information now come from all sides: Legal, Regulatory Compliance, Finance, Contract Management, Information Security, Operations, HR and other stakeholders.

At the same time, data center managers are faced with tighter staffing levels. Without automated monitoring, alerts and controls, the situation will only deteriorate as time passes: rack density decreases, server moves, record keeping and change management errors will accelerate and the cost of manually finding things and reconciling omissions and errors will grow relentlessly.

AIM provides the ability to remotely guide local technicians using LED markers

To support this increased level of change in data centers, AIM provides you with precise, real-time location information, all the way to the rack and down to the rack unit level, so that you can deploy technicians quickly and effectively to the correct device.

Remotely controlled LEDs, which identify the exact server location within the rack, guides technicians directly to the correct device. This visual identification decreases mistakes and errors while increasing efficiency by quickly identifying the correct server. Once changes are made, they are automatically recorded, and inventories are accurately updated in real time.

Erroneous or unauthorized moves will trigger security alerts.

Receive an alert when anything moves in your data center. AIM provides you with instant, customizable security alerts.

AIM’s change control process reduces error rates, saves labor costs, and increases service levels and uptime and helps data center managers achieve critical advantages in their constant navigation of planned changes, maintenance, expansions, and critical events.

AIM helps you take the defining step in automating your change management process without a large up-front investment, so you can align yourself with more important business objectives:

• Improve total cost of ownership
• Increase productivity
• Improve asset-related decision making
• Increase service level responsiveness and revenue

We give you:

• Real-time, precise rack unit location and customizable asset details
• Seven layers of customizable location details: from global location management to a single rack-U
• Automatic server rack and rack unit location of all your physical IT assets
• Remote, instant visual guidance to technicians to improve change management processes, avoid misplacement and reduce down-time
• Instant audit trails of moves, changes and asset details

AIM Helps Rack Space Utilization and Capacity Planning

Improved IT equipment utilization is a key driver for reducing energy consumption and improving facility use. Power consumption is magnified at the data center level where one watt saved at the server level can save 2.8 watts at the data center level, with cooling costs adding most of the aggregate power consumption. Precise and always up-to-date rack inventory data helps you identify and locate ghost servers, determine rack capacity and ensures quick reallocation of assets to improve facility utilization. AIM helps you implement a scalable, next generation architecture that delivers a sound platform and the resilience you need to be positioned for growth.