The data center once served as a significant corporate asset, providing the foundation for business management and customer service. Over the last few years, the data center has evolved to support rapid increases in data consumption and storage. At the same time, there is also an increased focus on the energy consumption in the data center, and the adoption of virtualization technologies. With so many changes in the data center, the demand for environmental monitoring has also increased.

As the data center continued to evolve and change over time, many IT managers lacked the necessary tools to support efficiency and implement proper environment monitoring. As a result, Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) emerged. A superset of infrastructure monitoring, DCIM encompasses the ability to manage the physical infrastructure of the data center to optimize resource utilization, efficiency and availability.

Data center management is tasked with keeping a finger on the pulse of an environment that is becoming increasingly complex and difficult to manage and an environment that is becoming much more critical to the survival and competitiveness of the enterprise. The goal of data center monitoring is to give you an accurate real-time picture of the current state of the critical infrastructure.

The data center infrastructure is a rapidly-evolving entity that contains hundreds of devices from a wide range of manufacturers. Each piece of equipment must be understood - whether it is functioning well on a day-to-day basis, how it fits into and supports the overall environment and how the environment and the applications and systems it supports will be impacted if it fails. Instant alerts and reports from all of this data center equipment is made available through the web and also via SMS.

The ROI on environmental monitoring systems can be significant and lead to improvements in both availability and efficiency. Germiller’s engineers have recommended and installed advanced environmental monitoring systems for data centers worldwide. We provide end-user training and offer custom onsite consulting to help insure that our clients achieve substantial uptime and efficiency improvements from their monitoring systems.

Data Center monitoring and control is a critical element of maintaining maximum availability for your critical operations. Germiller emphasizes utilizing IP and Web technologies to oversee and control critical support systems from just about anywhere.

Germiller criteria for both support infrastructure systems monitoring and information technology infrastructure monitoring is the same. We believe it vital that monitoring and control systems be cost effective, quickly deployed and implemented, easy to use, utilize intuitive alarming and escalation methodologies and provide robust reporting all from a central, secure, location.

Mission critical services require sophisticated monitoring. Monitoring systems should provide proactive management and enable the quick assessment of your present situation and notify the appropriate personnel should situations that threaten availability. In depth, analysis features should help you to plan for changes in availability and/or capacity requirements.

The ROI on environmental monitoring systems can be significant and lead to improvements in both availability and efficiency. Germiller provide end-user training and offer custom onsite consulting to help insure that our clients achieve substantial uptime and efficiency improvements from their monitoring systems.

Data Center monitoring systems provide visibility into the key environmental factors that could affect availability such as temperature, humidity, water leak detection, Smoke alert, Fuel status, Power details .Some integrate CT’s (current transformers), branch circuit monitoring, and/or can pull power consumption details from PDUs or smart plugs enabling you to track your power efficiency down to the rack or server. Significant power utility savings can be realized by understanding the environmental factors that cause airflow problems, and by making intelligent adjustments based on your actual data. Also available in some systems are real time graphical representations of your data center environment including your PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness).

Real time monitoring features enables some systems to store and playback historical environmental data enabling you to easily graphically view challenges or improvements in temperature, humidity, and pressure for each zone in your data center.

One of the most exciting monitoring developments is the integration of Active Controls, which utilize the environmental data provided by the monitoring system to dynamically manage CRAH temperature set points and variable speed fans, thus providing immediate and often substantial power savings.

Data Center Monitoring, Temp and Humidity Sensors, Power Meters, and Airflow and Efficiency Measurements can help alert you to potential issues while helping you reduce operation costs. TCO, ROI, CapEX. It used to be that a data center's fundamental mission was to stay online at all costs. Today, availability is still paramount, but costs and fiscal metrics receive more scrutiny than ever.

The reason- energy use across US data centers has ballooned into the $ billions. Similarly, downtime for a financial firm or an e-commerce enterprise can reach $ millions in minutes.

These serious financial consequences require data center owners to be equally proactive addressing inefficiency and safeguarding uptime. To do so, they need intuitive, impactful tools that go beyond simple Visio documents and Excel spreadsheets.

Germiller responds to this challenge with a suite of data center monitoring products that provide data centers the visibility and operational intelligence to continually optimize their facilities.