High cost data center asset management

High-cost data center asset management refers to relying on traditional manual operation and maintenance methods, mainly for the maintenance and management of cabinets, U-bit assets, network equipment, etc., to monitor the operating status of assets, and achieve consistent accounting.


From the industry operation and maintenance experience analysis, initial data collection, data accuracy, change tracking and data verification, are the four aspects that affect the cost and expenditure of data center operation and maintenance.


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Now, let's assume that a typical medium-sized data center has 200 cabinets, each containing 20 U-bit assets, for a total of 4,000 U-bit assets.


Initial data collection - Assuming the status of each asset's data, including make, model, serial number, asset name, and location, is available, traditional manual collection costs about $15 per asset.


Data accuracy - Industry reports from Digital Realty Trust indicate that manual data collection is 85 to 90 percent accurate. This means that there is a 10%-15% error rate, resulting in the wrong data for 400-600 assets.


Change Tracking - When it comes to data center changes, we make the following three assumptions: First, 80% of equipment outages are due to change; Second, most of the average time to repair faults is spent on finding the changed device. Finally, humans cannot track unauthorized changes. The Digital Realty Trust report states that 74 percent of data center managers are unable to locate a specific server within minutes, and 20 percent are unable to find a specific asset within a day.


Data collation - The cost of data collation is similar to the cost of initial data collection.


According to the above hypothetical analysis, if the traditional manual operation and maintenance method is adopted, the operation and maintenance cost of data center is very high, and the cost of collecting and checking asset data only once is 60,000 US dollars or 20 man-weeks.


Now, through the digitalor's U-level Asset Tracking and Protection Solution, not only can the assets be quickly and accurately positioned, the data is 100% accurate, the change tracking automation system displays, but also real-time statistics on the usage rate of U-bits, improve the utilization rate of cabinet U-bits, and warn the risk of failure that may be brought by the life cycle of assets at a certain stage. Truly improve the efficiency of asset operation and maintenance and the ROI of data centers, and realize the user's dream of digital and intelligent asset management.

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