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There are a number of benefits when implementing a Data Center Infrastructure System (DCIM) solution. DCIM provides important information when it comes to building the proper infrastructure; power, cooling and network data at the rack level help to determine the optimum placement of new servers. 

Data centers are increasing in size, density, and complexity, so it’s imperative for managers to find easier solutions to improve efficiency, extend life cycles of their physical assets, and most importantly, ensure up-time.

Contrary to this, Data Center Knowledge reports that CyrusOne (News - Alert) says that DCIM software data is not open enough. The gaps for CyrusOne includes “direct access to the data that DCIM suites collect.”

To use DCIM, “…Panduit Services, together with the CyrusOne team, use Panduit tools and metrics to optimize data center cooling and “balance” the airflow.”

After all, important features of DCIM include knowing whether you are over-cooling or wasting energy and the identification of environmental hot spots with thresholds and alerts.

Some enterprises’ attempts to adopt DCIM platforms fail because they lack visibility into legacy architectures to record asset, configuration, and status data for every server, storage, network, and environmental component.

The partnership between CyrusOne and Panduit helps enhance operational transparency in operating conditions for CyrusOne customers while achieving increased operational efficiency through saving significant energy costs, addressing the very challenges enterprises face when adopting DCIM.

Customers of CyrusOne aren’t a one-size-fits-all client base.

“Different customers want different things,” said Amaya Souarez, VP for Data Center Systems and Security at CyrusOne, according to Data Center Knowledge. “We’re not a company that has four huge, mammoth customers leasing entire data centers. We have customers from a single rack to entire suite and every flavor in between.”

With DCIM, there is better data center manageability, improved data center ability, and balancing supply and demand, and for CyrusOne customers, they’re getting the best of all worlds.