Remote & Multiple Location Management

You can’t manage what you don’t know. Setting up and managing the overall infrastructure of physical IT assets in multiple locations can be challenging and expensive, particularly when you are managing your data centers, network-and IT rooms remotely and without effective, automated means to control and monitor activity. Visibility into the physical infrastructure of all your data center rooms is a pre-condition to effective management.

AIM provides you with the exact location and instant inventory reports of your servers by facility, room, rack, and rack-unit.

AIM provides you with the same high level of security, instant alerts, visibility, and precise location information, whether you are managing one large data center or a large network of smaller network-and IT rooms. Without a large infrastructure investment, AIM provides you with an effective way to automatically update and centralize your IT asset data and change. You can integrate and manage up to seven location layers and an infinite number of separate facilities, floors, room, pods, etc.

Installation and integration of new locations and racks require a minimal set-up time of less than one man-hour per rack to enable you to receive real-time, precise location and asset information. This makes AIM the ideal system to quickly, cost effectively and efficiently monitor and secure remote locations.

AIM also provides you with the ability to remotely guide local technicians, using LED markers to identify the correct device, thereby reducing response time, increasing service efficiencies and minimizing human error. Once changes are made, they are automatically recorded, and inventories are accurately updated in real time.

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

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

Over 30% of respondents of Attend's 2010 and 2011 Data Center Manager Survey have budget for improving physical asset management within the next 24 months.

Failure to coordinate and control the infrastructure of 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, 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.

“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.

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.