Migration, migration, migration

For all their early endeavours and innovation, technological pioneers generally pave the way for others to follow but rarely remain at the forefront of further advancement.

The succession of high-profile withdrawals from the Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) market are testament to this trend. While once prevalent and considered revolutionary, platforms such as Aperture and Trellis have been consigned to the cyber scrapheap – discontinued having reached their Betamax moment.

There are myriad reasons for the mothballing of such systems but chief among them is that data centres have evolved at pace and the tools once regarded as “hi-tech” have proved unfit for purpose, becoming the sector’s equivalent of VHS in the streaming era.

Charged with the management of increasingly complex and expansive facilities, the DCIMs of yesteryear simply do not have the next-generation nous to comprehensively grasp the entirety of a data centre’s environment and the contribution each component within it makes to performance and optimisation. 

With limited management and automation capabilities, they have long been consigned to the role of needlessly elaborate asset registers, which rarely contain accurate or up to date information.

The demise of dated DCIMs has not, however, diminished the need for a comprehensive management tool. Far from it, in fact. Now more than ever, data centre owners require orchestration and optimisation of services and resources to deliver profitable and sustainable operations.

To do so, solutions should provide comprehensive integration with a broad diversity of devices and specialist software systems and bridge the gaps between a facility’s grey and white space.

In brief, it is no longer an option to dwell in the data centre Dark Ages and those still running antiquated apps or relying on spreadsheets for monitoring and informing provisioning need to migrate to the modern day to futureproof their services and information.

And while the migration from one management system to another can be a daunting prospect, automation specialist RiT Tech is offering operators a pain-free path to tomorrow’s world. 

The Israel-headquartered tech firm offers gold-plated integration and migration services to those adopting XpedITe, its Universal Intelligent Infrastructure Management (UIIM) tool, customising its capabilities to best serve any given data centre and associated network’s nuanced needs. 

Consequently, clients are assured of a quantum leap in data centre intelligence – rather than the leap of faith often associated with a major switch of systems – and will be delivered a persistent 360-degree view of their operations. 

The seismic upgrade, and uplift in capabilities, afforded by XpedITe – which is powered by advanced algorithms and can plan installations and forecast risks, automate ongoing processes and operational workflows – is the data centre equivalent of ditching ‘DOS’ and downloading Microsoft or Apple’s latest operating system. 

Migrating to RiT Tech’s innovative management system is not merely an evolutionary step in the right direction for DCIM, it's the destination for a long-desired and demanded technology.