Optimize Your Infrastructure with FNT Data Center Software

Companies face several challenges in Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM): integrating diverse systems, optimizing energy consumption, ensuring scalability, protecting against threats, managing and analyzing data efficiently, minimizing high operation costs, and meeting regulatory requirements. Efficient data management and analysis are required to identify performance optimizations.

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"FNT Command provides us with an end-to-end view of our IT infrastructure, creates transparency in planning and operational processes, and is an important data hub for various interfaces."

Michael Krämer, Audi AG

Highlights of FNT’s DCIM Software

FNT's Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) is a resource management and optimization tool that creates a complete overview of the data center’s entire system landscape. It streamlines processes and optimizes the use of building infrastructure (power, cooling, floor space), IT infrastructure (networks, servers, storage), connectivity (cables, patches) and services (software, applications). It stores this information as a digital twin that represents the entire data center environment. The digital twin data is kept up to date in a single, dynamically updating repository that can easily be integrated into key systems.

The data center management solution additionally contains many modern management functions, from analysis and visualization to planning and process management. These can be used to run more efficient data center operations, improve data center infrastructure planning, and plan capacity for future growth. Additionally, 2D and 3D views of the rooms can be created to provide a visual overview of the physical space.

From recording and monitoring live power consumption and temperature values to planning the entire data center, FNT DCIM software will keep your data center operating with maximum efficiency.

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Crisis-Proof Data Center: Mastering Unplanned Component Replacements

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Unplanned component failures put data center operations at risk. Strategies for faster incident response, efficient replacement planning, and improved infrastructure transparency help increase resilience and ensure smooth operations, even in times of crisis.

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Optimizing Space, Power, and Cooling in Modern Data Centers

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Master the essentials of data center efficiency with a holistic DCIM approach.

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DCIM Software Replacement

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How to Evaluate and Transition to a New Solution Whatever the motivating factor, every organization will at some point need to replace their DCIM software. Whether by choice or by force, there is a way to approach the process that will minimize the effort required and maximize the benefit not only to your data center, but to your organization overall. This guide is full of useful information that can facilitate the process. It details what to look for in a replacement solution and best practices for how to migrate. It also lays out the justifications you’ll need to garner management support for the change initiative.

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Rethinking DCIM

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Guide to understanding Top-Down DCIM and why it matters Data centers are essential for the success of any modern business. Accordingly, their performance and availability are increasingly moving up the agenda of customers and senior management alike. But it is no longer enough to simply use space, power, and cooling as metrics. Given digital transformation and the central role of IT in an organization’s ability to deliver, data centers need to provide maximum support for business transactions. Traditional tools for data center infrastructure management (DCIM) have reached their limits. What is needed are integrated tools, standards, and data models that enable seamless, efficient management of IT infrastructure from top to bottom. This white paper looks at the differences between tool generations, what characterizes modern DCIM solutions, and why managing isolated solutions soon runs up against functional limits. The core question is: How can I future-proof my data center?

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Why You Need a Digital Twin of Your Data Centers

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The Sustainable Infrastructure

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Expert Paper

The Path to Sustainability and Carbon Neutrality in DCIM

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Our new expert paper details how companies can tackle decarbonization through better infrastructure management, and how FNT's new solution add-on helps by documenting, analyzing and reporting on the carbon emissions of your customer's infrastructure.

Partner Solution Paper

The Augmentation of Data Center Infrastructure Management

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Find out how the combination of augmented reality and DCIM is revolutionizing the operational efficiency of data centers and setting new standards for energy and infrastructure management.

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Augmented Reality Brings your DCIM to the Next Level

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Easy Auditing of Data Center Assets

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The joint solution from FNT and dcVue makes time-consuming, error-prone and expensive data centre audits more efficient, precise and transparent than ever thanks to automated processes, mobile integration and a digital twin.

Success Story

Bundesagentur für Arbeit (Federal Employment Agency)

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Germany’s Federal Employment Agency runs one of Europe’s largest IT networks, supporting 120,000 employees across 1,680 locations. Previously managed with Excel and Visio, the IT infrastructure is now centralized on FNT Command, which records and manages IT and telecommunications components, software, and cloud applications. This platform allows flexible data handling and integration with existing systems, including ERP software, to automate IT procurement and inventory management.

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Data Centers on the Edge

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A Guide for Operating Remote Sites Current predictions by various experts indicate a rapid growth of edge computing. Many companies have now recognized the advantages of the edge and are in various stages of implementing their own edge strategies. This white paper discusses how organizations can keep track of and efficiently manage their geographically dispersed sites

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How Smart Integrations Enhance Data Center Management

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Taking data center automation to new levels with a combined FNT/ABB solution Managing data centers is complicated. It involves multiple tools, a combination of manual and automated processes that aren’t always in sync, and data that isn’t always available when needed. A single solution simply cannot handle the complexity of a modern data center. Integrating best-in-class tools is the key to increasing efficiency and productivity across all departments. It makes sure all are working together in an integrated way and not operating in silos. Read our new white paper to learn how FNT together with ABB have made data center management more efficient just by working together.

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The Future of DCIM

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The pandemic has heightened the need for digital transformation and is accelerating its mainstream adoption to support remote workforces, increased bandwidth, IoT, and virtualization. To ensure success in the aftermath of COVID-19 and remain competitive in a digital world, businesses must also understand how infrastructure management is evolving. In this white paper, we’ll discuss why today’s modern data centers need hybrid digital infrastructure management for greater visibility into digital infrastructure and to support increased mobility.

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Future-Proof Your Data Center Through Integration

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How to leverage the full potential of management tools and process with smart integration In this white paper, we’ll discuss how to drive growth and automate processes through smart integration. Combining a data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution with other business-critical systems will simplify and unify operational processes and allow you to achieve high-caliber data center management.

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IT Infrastructure Management Tools

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Best Practices for Implementation Physical IT infrastructure resources and assets form the basis for all IT services and are thus fundamental for business success. Managing cables, servers, and switches has always been a complex challenge but digital transformation and its consequences now make deployment of specialist tools a prerequisite for efficient management. Many rollouts of such tools fail for various reasons, e. g., the strategy, choice of tool, goals, or data collection. The result is that solutions are either not used at all or not used effectively. In this white paper, we discuss the most common issues encountered when implementing IT infrastructure management tools and how to avoid them.

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Cable Chaos in Data Centers

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How a paradigm shift can fix cable chaos In our white paper titled The Nerve Pathways of Digital Transformation, we highlighted the strategic importance and value of data center cabling. The focus was on the challenges around managing data center cabling, the consequences of inadequate cable management, and the warning signs that urgent action is needed. In this white paper, we examine how to turn data center cable management into a technical and economic success factor. We present the necessary changes to the fundamental approach and the positive effects that result from this paradigm shift. This is accompanied by a look at the increasing importance of professionalization, the use of professional software, and the tangible benefits it delivers for data center managers.

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Structured cabling in Data Centers

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The nerve pathways of digital transformation. Few aspects of digital infrastructure are as undervalued as network cabling – yet few are as critical to the process. Cabling provides the essential foundation for all forms of connectivity, data communication, and digital value creation. At the same time, the cables themselves are largely invisible, with more and more IT services being consumed from the cloud via WLAN. The highly qualified teams that provide and operate the cabling also work behind the scenes. This is especially true of the cabling in data centers, which is often regarded as a black box.

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Digital Twins for Data Centers

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In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, data center operators are seeking ways to adapt and optimize their operations for increased efficiency, resilience, and security. A digital twin, a virtual counterpart of the physical data center, has emerged as a promising solution.

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Case Studies: Innovative Colocation Providers

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As digital transformation and cloud shifts reshape the data center market, colocation providers must modernize to meet customer demands and global competition. This white paper shows how a digital platform can help them stay competitive.

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The Truth about Connectivity

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Colocation providers can differentiate themselves in a saturated market by avoiding manual rework, enhancing quality and speed with automated work orders, centralizing documentation of diverse transport technologies, and consolidating legacy solutions into a single integrated inventory database.

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Understanding the Foundations of Capacity Optimization in Data Centers

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In the elaborate world of data center operations, capacity optimization stands as a pivotal concept that encompasses a broad spectrum of strategic, operational, and environmental considerations. This whitepaper aims to demystify the various aspects of capacity optimization, illustrating how it is crucial not only for enhancing performance metrics but also for achieving greater financial outcomes and environmental responsibility.

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Future-proof Cable Management with FNT Solutions

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In this third paper, we show how FNT specifically supports management of your data center cabling through a state-of-the-art software solution and decades of experience. After all, cable management is part of our DNA. Almost half of all DAX40 companies and more than 500 other major organizations around the world rely on our solutions to record, document, plan, and operate their critical cable infrastructures. Read on to discover how to future-proof the foundations of your digital transformation.

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DC Connectivity Management

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