The ultimate answer to critical IT asset management

As the digital economy becomes part of the social and economic center, data has become a de facto social component. Especially in recent years, driven by the epidemic, the digital era has accelerated, and many enterprises have begun to promote the comprehensive digitalization of IT assets.

For many medium-sized and large enterprises and units, the development of the business has promoted the size of the data center, which has invisibly increased the extra workload for IT operations and maintenance personnel. For enterprises and units that have not completed the transformation in a timely manner, the traditional asset management method has obviously been unable to meet the current needs of enterprises, and has become a weak board of enterprises to a certain extent, increasing enterprise expenditure, hiding potential security risks, and affecting the upgrading and transformation of enterprises.

In general, the current traditional data center IT asset management approach has the following problems:

First, IT assets are not monitored in real time. At present, the rapid development of enterprises makes the change and mobility of IT assets become the norm, especially financial institutions, large power institutions, government units, operators, Internet companies, etc., and the management of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of IT assets has become the norm. However, the old management method makes it impossible for managers to ensure timely and accurate changes in asset changes. With the passing of time, the accumulation of problems, the degree of data distortion is becoming more and more serious, and finally the data has become unnecessary, and every time the confirmation of IT asset information still needs to be re-inventorized. The removal of new assets also needs to send someone to the site to confirm the remaining racks.

Second, statistics and management methods are too traditional, high cost, low efficiency, easy to make mistakes. Many enterprises that have not completed the transformation still rely on manual collection and entry to manage IT assets, using tools such as Access, Excel or small asset management software to manage, but because of the large number of assets, manual entry not only consumes a lot of labor costs and time costs, but also is very prone to some problems: If the accounts are not clear, the assets are not clear, the assets are inflated or lost, etc., the data invested in a lot of cost accounting is still not credible and unavailable.

Third, IT assets extensive management, resulting in a lot of unnecessary waste. Today, with the trend of fine and granular management, many enterprises still use the extensive management mode of IT assets, unable to understand the utilization rate of IT assets, and the relevant data of IT assets have not formed accurate reports and have not been fully utilized, resulting in the company's easy to produce unknown assets or asset restrictions. It makes the upper level make decisions when there is a waste of resources, a waste of money and so on.

In summary, IT is not difficult to find that the main problems of IT asset management are:

1) Relying on manual management, IT cannot accurately locate the U position of the cabinet where IT assets are located in real time.

2) Lack of security supervision means, unable to monitor the location changes and information changes of IT assets in real time;

3) Manual inventory is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and IT is impossible to accurately and automatically inventory information such as the quantity, type and location of IT assets;

4) Extensive management, regardless of cost and benefit, resulting in high cost, low benefit, low risk resistance;

5) Insufficient utilization of cabinet space, serious space fragmentation, resulting in waste of space resources;

6) It is difficult to query the status of assets, and it is difficult to know whether the status of assets is in production, scrapped or maintenance expires.

In response to these industry problems, the industry manufacturers actively explore solutions, digital people invented a breakthrough patented technology - MC-RFID magnetic control passive active positioning identification technology, which is the only mature technology in the industry, IT solves the IT asset management digital transformation of the last mile problem.

In this solution, a U-position monitoring module is installed on the side of the cabinet to digitize the cabinet. Install U-bit labels on the surface of IT assets to digitize them. The U-position label magnet is adsorbed on the U-position monitoring module to realize the value:

1) Automatically locate and identify the specific U position of the cabinet where the IT asset resides with 100% accuracy, and identify the information about the IT asset occupying the U position. At the same time, the information such as the location, capacity and change of IT assets is reported to the asset management system in real time to realize the automatic collection, input and update of information.

2) When illegal transactions occur in IT assets, real-time alarms will be generated to prevent asset loss and ensure asset safety;

3) Complete real-time and timed automated inventory of all IT assets at the second level;

4) Asset fine management, clear asset costs and benefits, provide accurate and effective asset data, and improve the corresponding decision-making level;

5) Automatic statistics of cabinet space utilization, improve the space utilization rate by 4%;

6) IT asset life cycle status information can be checked at any time;

The scheme has the advantages of simple operation, accurate positioning and fast response. Through this solution, enterprises can obtain IT asset management capabilities that make IT asset management & operation and maintenance automated, refined and intelligent.