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11 Tips to Streamline Your Data Center Operations with DCIM Software

DCIM software consolidates all critical information into a single dashboard, giving you a bird’s-eye view of your entire infrastructure. Centralized monitoring minimizes blind spots and ensures real-time visibility of key metrics like power usage, cooling efficiency, and server health.

Hyperview Joins Forces With Novem Digital to Transform Property Risk Management and Asset Sustainability

Vancouver, British Columbia, August 27, 2024 – Hyperview, the leading cloud-based data center infrastructure management (DCIM) platform, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Novem Digital, an innovative digital risk management and IoT company.

Carbon Footprint Reporting

We’re excited to share some big updates and enhancements that underscore our dedication to innovation and efficiency. Check out our new Carbon Footprint Reporting add-on feature, a sleek dark mode GUI theme, and major improvements to Business Entity tracking and Dashboard Widgets. Plus, we’ve added new custom components for better peripheral logging and expanded firmware update support for Panduit Gen6 rack PDU products.

Patch or Perish: Secure Your Data Center with Firmware Management

Firmware is the permanent software programmed into a device’s read-only memory. It provides the low-level control for the device’s specific hardware. In a data center, firmware is embedded in various components such as servers, storage devices, and networking equipment. Firmware management involves the processes and tools necessary to update, maintain, and monitor these firmware systems.

Vendor-Neutral Asset Auto-Discovery: The Cornerstone of DCIM Software

Data centers today are dynamic ecosystems with heterogeneous infrastructures. They encompass a wide array of equipment including servers, storage systems, networking devices, power distribution units, and environmental controls. These assets often originate from multiple vendors and support various communication protocols. Traditional manual asset management methods are ill-equipped to handle this complexity, leading to inefficiencies, inaccuracies, and increased operational costs.

APIs: The Silent Heroes of Data Center Management

Data centers typically operate a diverse array of systems including environmental controls, power management, IT service management (ITSM) platforms, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. DCIM software with well-documented, open APIs ensures these systems can communicate and function cohesively. Interoperability fosters.

Boost Data Center Efficiency: DCIM Meets ASHRAE Standards

ASHRAE provides detailed recommendations for data center environmental conditions through its Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments. These guidelines specify temperature and humidity ranges that ensure the optimal performance and longevity of IT equipment. The latest guidelines define four classes (A1 to A4) for allowable and recommended temperature ranges, with the recommended range for Class A1 being 18°C to 27°C (64.4°F to 80.6°F).