Datacentres are the hub of any IT infrastructure in the era of cloud computing. Many are still inefficiently run and managed, however. Datacentre infrastructure management (DCIM) promises to help rectify this, but has the local market caught onto it?

✹ IT asset management and datacentre infrastructure management live in separate realms. This gap between the two worlds causes costly problems. It can take ages to get a new server up and running. Power and cooling costs are hard to control if you don’t have a clear view of the resources consumed by IT assets and your opportunities to optimise both IT equipment and datacentre facilities.