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Intelligent Infrastructure Management (IIM) systems provide real-time monitoring of network, power, and environmental infrastructure to streamline operations and reduce costs. Previous IIMs required converting to a cross-connect topology, but next-generation IIMs like PatchView+ work in any topology without disruption. IIMs continuously monitor connections, track assets, optimize provisioning and resource use, and enhance security to help data centers cut costs by 20-30% while improving performance. As IIMs now support all network types, all data centers can benefit from their management capabilities.

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Intelligent Infrastructure Management

Intelligent Infrastructure Management (IIM) systems provide real-time monitoring of network, power, and environmental infrastructure to streamline operations and reduce costs. Previous IIMs required converting to a cross-connect topology, but next-generation IIMs like PatchView+ work in any topology without disruption. IIMs continuously monitor connections, track assets, optimize provisioning and resource use, and enhance security to help data centers cut costs by 20-30% while improving performance. As IIMs now support all network types, all data centers can benefit from their management capabilities.

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Intelligent Infrastructure Management

The complexity and scale of todays data centers are creating tough management and budgetary challenges for every IT team.
Tight space and power constraints, combined with manual tracking methods, are making MACs harder to plan and to execute,
assets more difficult to track and documentation all but impossible to maintain; leaving many data centers wondering when
not if costly errors will occur.
Although Intelligent Infrastructure Management (IIM) systems are proven solutions for enhancing visibility and efficiency, the
data center industry has been slow to embrace them. In many cases, this reluctance was due to the fact that prior-generation
IIMs could not be deployed without converting the data center from inter-connect topology to a cross-connect topology a
disruptive, costly and potentially risky undertaking.
The availability of next-generation IIMs, such as RiT Technologies PatchView+, has however eliminated this concern by
working equally well in cross-connect, inter-connect and mixed environments, as well as with copper, fiber or mixed cabling.
As a result, all data centers can now deploy IIMs in existing data center environments, enabling enterprises to cut operational
costs by 20-30% or more, decrease downtime, optimize power and space utilization, accelerate service deployment and
enhance security.
This is why many in the data center industry have become advocates of IIM as a best practice platform for bringing
manageability, security and controllability to all data centers.

IIM in Brief
The IIM concept is both simple and elegant: it means the continuous monitoring of a self-aware network, and power and
environmental apparatuses, which together determine network status in real time; used with a central data repository and
intelligent processes to streamline and error-proof operations.
These components of next-generation IIM bring efficiency and automation to a broad range of previously-manual tasks,
including:

Provisioning and Service Deployment: When an IIM takes over provisioning, you can be sure that regional power and
cooling limits will never be compromised. The IIM can independently decide where to locate a new blade server, create multiteam work orders, monitor their execution and test the result. With correct and efficient provisioning, human error is slashed,
downtime is reduced, productivity is increased and resources are utilized optimally.

Fault Management: IIM systems continuously monitor all connections at the patching level, and provide immediate
alerts when faults or disconnections are sensed, enabling immediate correction of the problem.

IT Asset Management: IT asset management systems continually track each and every device, and can even rediscover lost or orphaned equipment. The resulting savings can often more than justify the entire IIM investment.

Security: IIMs continuously scan all connections, looking for suspicious activities and sending out immediate alerts
when irregularities are sensed.

Environment and Power Management: IIMs help organizations reduce their power usage, generating significant
savings while complying with tough legislation.

Bringing IIM to the Mixed Environment


In the past, IIM technologies required multiple IIM components to be embedded into an existing infrastructure: a model that
required a transition to a cross-connect topology.

Recent technological advances, however, enable next-generation IIM technologies to uniquely identify every piece of network
equipment by means of their existing connectivity components (whether RJ45/copper or LC/fiber) with no need for the addition
of extra identification components or layers.
As such, state-of-the-art IIMs, such as RiT Technologies PatchView+, are able to provide full monitoring and other capabilities
on all types of networks: whether inter-connect, cross-connect or mixed; fiber or cable; with a hierarchical or flat topology; and
independent of data transfer rates.
As a system that is separate from any underlying network, the IIM future proofs the data center, delivering uninterrupted value
as the data center upgrades and evolves its infrastructure.
To further ease the burden of deploying an IIM in a resource-constrained environment, todays advanced IIMs combine
previously-separate scanners, expanders and masters into a single cabinet-mountable box that requires no u-space.
As a result, all data centers, no matter what their current infrastructure or their upgrade plans, can now enjoy the full range of
IIM benefits, including improved visibility, streamlined management, automated daily operations, improved planning, enhanced
security and optimized overall performance.

IIM Has Multiple Benefits


IIMs are best-practice platforms that reduce operational costs significantly by enhancing ongoing operations, security and
scalability. Now that they work equally well in all types of topologies, their usage should be explored by data centers of all sizes
and complexities, to maximize visibility, controllability and security, and to enable the full range of DCIM applications.

Source : DataCenterKnowledge
Recommended By Rick Moreno, GLOBAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR, AT&T
Network Management / Managed Services / Outsourcing / IT Infrastructure
[email protected]
rick (dot) moreno2015 (at) gmail (dot) com
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/rick-moreno/6/79a/850

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