Survey Analysis: Five Things You Can Learn From Your Peers About DCIM
April Adams
24 December 2015
IT leaders who are evaluating data center infrastructure management tools to improve operational efficiency and business agility can benefit from the lessons learned by early adopters. Use this research to better understand the risks, rewards and best practices of a successful DCIM deployment.
Key Findings
- Real benefits can be achieved with DCIM even if you don't deploy the full suite, and most organizations prefer to deploy DCIM on a module-by-module basis.
- The top-reported reasons for deploying DCIM are to improve capacity planning, IT/facilities integration and data center visualization.
- The most commonly reported inhibitors to adopting DCIM are cost/budget, staffing concerns and a lack of prioritization.
- DCIM purchases are primarily selected, funded and used by people in IT roles.
- The factors that are most commonly reported as most important in picking a vendor for a DCIM tool are ease of deployment, ease of use, price and software integration capabilities.