RiT Tech’s recipe for data center success

The opportunity to order an innovative tool that integrates with, and interrogates, every element of its surroundings to create a comprehensive picture of a data centre’s topology is a mouth-watering prospect. Add intelligent provisioning and process automation as garnishes and you will be starting to get a flavour of XpedITe, RiT Tech’s Universal Intelligent Infrastructure Management (UIIM) solution, which has been designed to whet the appetites of operators seeking to serve optimal digital services to their customers.

While our revolutionary recipe for data centre success is reserved for our customers, below are five tasters of the ingredients that make adopting an UIIM approach a prime choice for those dissatisfied with disappointing DCIM dishes.

1. The perfect blend
   
   Michelin-starred chefs may be able to source the very best produce on the market but without an intimate knowledge of the different ways to prepare and cook them, conjuring up a culinary classic would simply not be on the menu. Similarly, a data centre can’t be expected to run at optimum efficiency without a firm understanding of every element of its complex ecosystem. Such universal expertise requires an infrastructure management tool that boasts federated integration; a capability which sources data from every possible perspective and can interact with all inherent systems. The global view this serves up empowers data centre operators with an encyclopaedic knowledge of their facilities’ past and present so that they can better craft the future. 
   
   
   
2. Consistently excellent
   
   Whether the traditional fare of a trattoria or titbits from a tapas bar, restaurateurs pride themselves on producing uniformed plates – no matter the chef behind the pass. To do so requires kitchen staff to be able to learn, follow and action steps of a recipe in an identical way to their colleagues. Consistency is also key to data centre management, where a definitive source of truth is only possible if the information retrieved from assets and software systems is accurate and conflict free. UIIM’s smart store is the technological equivalent of a gourmet’s guide – it presents data drawn from across the electronic ecosystem in a uniformed, standard language that can be understood by all those who need to consume it.
   
   
   
3. A shared experience
   
   Given human beings are social animals, it should come as little surprise that sitting down to a meal with friends ranks as one of life’s great pleasures. A shared experience, rather than ‘solo dining’, is also preferable when it comes to data centre management and operation – tasks that depend on multiple departments collaborating. UIIM ensures the conversation is convivial and palatable for all, interconnecting the full menu of an operation’s capabilities; from assets and physical connectivity to root cause failure analysis and management dashboards, and everything in between. Acknowledging every department has a defined appetite for information, UIIM uses the same ingredients – a single version of truth – but innovatively tailors its offerings to meet the tastes, processes and policies of those who need feeding.
   
   
   
4. Digesting data
   
   No matter how delectable, a dish is nothing without a diner to enjoy it. The same is true of the information compiled by data centre infrastructure management solutions – it holds no value and is of no benefit unless it can be transformed into analytical insights and actions. Our UIIM solution identifies historic and current trends in data and uses these to help forecast the future; it provides operators with a feast of figures and an informed study of the courses that could follow.
   
   
   
5. The cherry on the cake
   
   Although more familiar with automation techniques than artisan cooking, the innovative team at RiT Tech know it takes more than an efficient kitchen and diligent waiting staff to earn rave reviews and repeat business. Which is why – unlike so many of its blunt DCIM predecessors – XpedITe comes complete with the equivalent of cutting-edge cutlery. These intelligent utensils can slice through big data and carve out executional plans. Our UIIM can author actions and oversee automated steps that determine provisioning for new assets and services at lightning quick speeds, assess the risks and rewards of strategic decisions and major network changes and produce work orders that signpost engineers directly to their required destinations. In brief, for data centre operators wishing to sit at the sector’s top table, it’s time to sample RiT Tech’s revolutionary recipe.