Maximise Capacity Planning
The data centre is a highly dynamic environment, with power consumption and environmental variables constantly changing.
At Unite, we understand a high degree of flexibility is essential for fulfilling the extremely varied requirements of integrating and monitoring devices within complex environments. As a result, hardware and software solutions have been developed at Unite to meet the IT industry requirement for ‘real time’ monitoring.
Our ability to measure, alert, store and report using our highly accurate data, enables us to offer many value added integration capabilities into clients’ existing and planned Data Centre Management and Network Management System (NMS) platforms, through to reporting applications such as Crystal Reports and Business Objects, with a further integration capability into Infrastructure Management solutions such as ITRACS Corporation and RIT Technologies.
One of the benefits of installing such a solution with our integrated technologies is the client’s ability to produce highly sophisticated detailed management information reports utilising industry standard protocols and database platforms, which enable our clients to perform data centre capacity planning, trend analysis and risk management for mission critical services.
Rigorous data centre capacity planning and management are critical in serving today’s
enterprises. By providing integrated threshold monitoring and early warning alerting on power, humidity, temperature and other variables at both cabinet and room level, Unite is able to help clients understand the interdependencies between power, rack space and cooling within the data centre environment, including past trends. In order to predict computer resources, Unite provides assistance to the client in measuring current loads, testing for anticipated loads, and gathering usage trends over time to predict the possible need for expansion.
Using our ability to integrate into the various Network Management System (NMS) platforms we are also able to show the same interdependencies that exist for space.
In optimising physical layer capacity management, we use our capability of 'real time' monitoring to capture detailed data and both document and graphically represent the current state of clients’ infrastructure, giving a complete picture and baseline of the type, location and connection of equipment.
By providing highly accurate ongoing data collection, clients are able to perform data centre trend analysis by tracking historical trends of power and cooling utilisation over a period of time.
The management information can then be modelled against business initiatives and events to produce short, medium, and long term forecasts for future planning.