Expanding your Data Center is Simplified with Nlyte Software

Are there plans within your organization to expand its data center without any foresight into how to overcome the inevitable challenges? Is the Senior Leadership team asking how the data center expansion will impact the business? Fortunately, Nlyte Software has a robust Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) tool, implemented by customers globally, across all verticals to help them successfully expand their data center, without unnecessary obstacles.

Data Center Infrastructure Expansion refers to the process of increasing the capacity and capabilities of a data center. This can involve building new facilities, expanding existing ones, or upgrading the infrastructure to handle more data, improve performance, and support new technologies. The goal is to ensure that the data center can meet growing demands for data processing, storage, and connectivity.

Implementing DCIM is crucial for modern data centers to operate efficiently, cost-effectively, and sustainably. It bridges the gap between IT and facility management, ensuring smooth operations and uninterrupted service delivery.

Without DCIM, expanding a data center presents significant challenges. Organizations will struggle to plan and forecast effectively. They will lack visibility to manage the increasing costs of power. Additionally, they will face difficulties in sharing data across the organization while supporting infrastructure capabilities.

Nlyte’s customers have experienced significant improvements after implementing DCIM for their data center expansion, such as increasing their market share. They have identified efficiency opportunities throughout their workflows, while staff both within and outside the data center have gained from Nlyte’s workflow tools.

The Challenges of Data Center Expansion Without Nlyte

Many organizations planning to expand without DCIM solutions face significant challenges. They lack tools to effectively plan and forecast the optimal use of their data centers to meet growing business demands. With the absence of forethought, it becomes difficult to ensure that the infrastructure can keep pace with increasing needs.

For example, if a data center infrastructure is projected to double or even triple in the coming years, there is significant uncertainty about whether current systems can cope with this rapid growth. This poses a risk to efficient scaling.

These organizations also struggle to track and manage the ever-increasing costs of power accurately. Relying on manufacturers’ specifications rather than precise metrics leads to inefficiencies and potential overspending on energy consumption.

Additionally, they face difficulties in sharing data across the organization to manage and support infrastructure capabilities, utilization, and allocations. This lack of data sharing hampers the ability to maximize resources and ensure organizational alignment and informed decision-making.

Key Benefits

By integrating Nlyte’s DCIM, organizations experience numerous benefits during data center expansion:

• They can view a comprehensive data center infrastructure footprint on a single screen for the first time.
  • This capability is incredibly valuable where customers are adding a data room closet to the Nlyte system to ensure meticulous asset tracking.
• With Nlyte’s DCIM software:
  • Floor planning capabilities enable precise tracking and management of assets.
• Organizations benefit from improved capacity planning based on projected needs:
  • Benefits are found across the company, identifying opportunities for efficiency gains both within and beyond the data center.
• Customers have confirmed experiencing increased market share and growth by:
  • Accelerating the delivery of innovative solutions for many customers, while providing the highest quality service.
• With the ability to now leverage immediate capacity reports:
  • Executives gain a clear understanding of their current and projected demands, encouraging more informed decision-making.

Customer References

“From a wider perspective, Computacenter was opening a number of new data centers and needed a tool to plan and forecast the most effective use of both new and existing data centers to meet growing business demand.”- Simon Brickett, Head of Data Centre Services, Computacenter

“We’re quicker to spot issues, and much faster to take action. Also, we can pinpoint what business user will be affected. This is a real benefit as we grow our hosting business for customers." - Sebastien Doneaux, IT Operations Manager, Proximus Group

"Within a year, we have accomplished the onboarding of over 20 sites of varying sizes and complexity without increasing the core DCIM project team size. This would have been impossible without Nlyte’s solution and their guidance." - Phil Pennington, Global DCIM Lead & Solutions Architect, VMware

Additional Resources

Data Center Capacity Planning: Definition, Benefits, and Solutions | Nlyte

Top Six Steps for Data Center Capacity Planning | Nlyte

Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Software | Nlyte

DCIM 101 eBook | Nlyte