Publication: Data Center Knowledge, 30 Dec 2013

"One of our prediction is really about things being easy, said Peter Gilbert, VP, DCIM Business Strategy at CA. "What I mean by that is a greater focus on ease of installation, implementation, integration, use, more of those things. This is not unique to DCIM, we're seeing this in other software areas as well. It's really about our customer's experience of getting value. The ease with which, and the speed of which you can integrate DCIM with data center environment. Obviously what it's about is integrating different silos. You have people from facilities, IT, IT operations, Customers as well. These people don't want to do a lot of thinking. When it comes to ease of use, that means role based views, information that's relevant for them.

"It's about scale and administration at scale, continues Gilbert. "We're seeing it pushed into much more large-scale environments. Scale - not just technical scale - it's also about being able to be administratively scalable. When you increase your DCIM to accommodate multiple racks across many data centers, perhaps if your historical data, the process of the system needs to scale at well. The ease of which you can pull in additional data centers. Organizations don't want a situation where it needs a lot of heavy lifting.

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