Many computer rooms, telecom rooms, and data centers are being expanded to their extreme limits. The lack of optimization often leads to operational inefficiencies that result in a reduction in energy availability, cooling capacity, and proportionally higher operating costs.
Simultaneously, these environments are experiencing increased energy consumption, associated with the constant and growing demand for emerging technologies, along with rising inlet temperatures, resulting in elevated equipment outlet temperatures that negatively impact the lifespan of these infrastructures.
Many facilities operate under conditions that threaten their own operational availability and, consequently, business continuity. This factor has gradually eroded the adaptability of these so-called LEGACY environments, preventing them from truly meeting the new demands of different technologies within IT environments.
Considering that the world as a whole has undergone a radical and entirely unexpected change due to the COVID-19 virus, any company, sector, scope, or environment has had to adapt forcibly to non-presential work models, which under no circumstances have been considered as a potential variable in any minimally worked future planning or projection. .
In this regard, LEGACY environments have been compelled to adapt in some way to an operation entirely linked to a non-presential management model. This directly results in many operations and/or processes that are not technology-dependent, meaning they could be managed through manual tasks such as device readings, status monitoring, or simple validation of the operational condition of a component within the infrastructures, becoming impossible due to the limitations of accessibility to these environments caused by COVID-19.
As a result, many organizations worldwide have begun to truly grasp the vital and paramount importance of infrastructure Monitoring capabilities, whether they are Legacy, new, or of any kind. This is a topic that was previously considered a wildcard, only for large corporations, or even just a "nice to have."
Thanks to this new condition, and catalyzed by the push for the necessary Technological Transformation across all sectors due to the limitations on the mobility of human resources to their common work environments, the ability to remotely manage the state of infrastructures is now being recognized as crucial.
However, a new challenge arises within organizations:
How do I do it?
In what way should it be implemented?
Where do I start?
Who can provide a solution tailored to my diverse environment? ?
How can I adapt my old technology to meet these new requirements?
What kind of resources do I need to manage my infrastructures in the future?
This is where truly neutral solutions begin to be perceived as a differentiating factor since they can easily adapt to virtually any IT environment and, at the same time, become a technological bridge from the perspective of their usage philosophy along with their non-invasive implementation methods.
Such solutions offer a progressive implementation capacity, meaning they can adapt to the specific vital needs within each organization. Simultaneously, in these initial phases, they begin to provide granularity of information, including:
· Consumption patterns of monitored components.
· Alarms based on functional operational thresholds.
· Electronic alerts (email, dashboards, messaging).
· Historical usage records, peaks, or deviations.
· Reports with detailed information by zones, areas, or sectors.
All of this is based on the fundamental premise that you don't need to overhaul everything to obtain vital information about the behavior of the key infrastructures within IT environments. Instead, it provides a concrete opportunity to implement energy efficiency policies, optimized operational management, and, most importantly, increase the lifespan of these environments.
This information can also be easily disseminated throughout the entire company to those who require it, whether for management purposes or for the generation of compliance packages associated with specific legislation expected to be met by organizations, whether in the public or private sector.
On the other hand, the benefits start to become apparent almost immediately. Access to detailed information (consumption, operational values, and behavioral patterns) that was traditionally framed as complex, costly, and impactful to implement is now readily available. Typically, these proprietary Monitoring solutions have been designed to meet the requirements of large-scale infrastructures and are based on rather rigid components in terms of data extraction.
Here are the main direct benefits obtained through neutral monitoring solutions for IT environments:
Enables companies to make well-documented decisions through the availability of relevant infrastructure information (centralized data collection and simple reporting).
Provides sustainable support for energy optimization programs to achieve operational efficiencies and enhance infrastructure resilience management.
Improves cost savings and management, generating energy efficiencies in critical areas for business continuity (typically 10-30% with a first-year ROI).
Allows for the progressive implementation of the solution within each critical zone of the company.
In summary, IT infrastructure monitoring has ceased to be an exclusive tool for large companies and for environments with high technological complexity only accessible to a few. In the market, there are companies that increasingly assist in implementing these neutral solutions, advising and promoting profitable projects within these Legacy environments.
