Digital remote monitoring and how it changes data center operations and maintenance

Trends that influence monitoring

Published April 2018

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Today’s data center power and cooling infrastructure has roughly 3 times more data points / notifications than it did 10 years ago. Traditional data center remote monitoring services have been available for over 10 years but were not designed to support this amount of data monitoring and the associated alarms, let alone extract value from the data.

This paper explains how seven trends are defining monitoring service requirements and how this will lead to improvements in data center operations and maintenance.