Gartner positions Panduit in the Visionaries Quadrant of its inaugural Magic Quadrant for Data Center Infrastructure Management Tools

Panduit, the leading global provider of next-generation data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) solutions, announced it has been positioned by Gartner in the Visionaries quadrant of the first Magic Quadrant for Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Tools^1. The report evaluated 17 different DCIM vendors against 16 criteria for completeness of vision and ability to execute.

The Panduit mission is to change the face of data centre infrastructure management, said Jack Tison, Panduit CTO. "We provide our customers with improved data centre capacity utilisation through actionable intelligence about their power, space, cooling, assets, and network connectivity to maximise return on assets (ROA). To this end, our SmartZone DCIM Solution offers real-time monitoring, alerting and visualisation of facilities, network, and IT components and our recent acquisition of SynapSense allows us to provide an advanced means of cooling efficiency and control automation."

Forward-thinking companies realize that, to run data centres efficiently and to extend their lives indefinitely, it's illogical to treat data centre facilities and IT assets separately, because they're two parts of a mutually dependent ecosystem. If one is inefficient (e.g., inadequate cooling equipment supporting IT), then the other will suffer as a result^2, wrote Dave Cappuccio, Research VP, Gartner.

Over time, as new equipment and workloads are added to the data centre, power, space and cooling become less optimised compared to the new technologies. A DCIM solution can be used to reduce operating expenses (OpEx) and potentially defer the capital expense (CapEx) of building out additional power, space, and cooling.

According to Tison, DCIM will evolve to become an operating system for the data centre, especially as new architectures and software-defined networks gain wider adoption. As DCIM evolves and customer needs change, Panduit customers will have the ability to implement DCIM in a cost-effective modular fashion, which provides the greatest ROI based upon their data center level of DCIM maturity in cooling management, asset tracking or power monitoring, leading to a comprehensive capacity management solution.

1. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Data Center Infrastructure Management Tools by Jay E. Pultz, David J. Cappuccio, April Adams, Federico De Silva, Naveen Mishra, Henrique Cecci, Rakesh Kumar, 22 September 2014.
2. Gartner, IT and Facilities Need to Work Together to Improve Data Centers by David J. Cappuccio. 4 August 2014.

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