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Gary Bunyan is Global DCIM Solutions Specialist at iTRACS Corporation<\/a>, a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) company. This is the 11th in a series of columns by Gary about \u201cthe user experience\u201d. See Gary\u2019s most recent columns: Keep Your Servers Cool \u2013 And Your Business Hot<\/a>, Turning DCIM\u2019s Big Data into Actionable Insight<\/a> and Unlock Your Capacity By Unplugging Your Ghost Servers<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Gary-Bunyan-sm2\"GARY BUNYAN
\niTRACS<\/div>\n

If you\u2019re like me, then the data center is the center of your professional universe. With tens of thousands of assets co-habitating in a vast web of inter-relationships and inter-dependencies, it\u2019s one of the most complex entities on the planet and a simply amazing environment in which to work.<\/p>\n

But for the millions and millions of technology users and consumers out there, they barely know that we, and our data centers, even exist. And that\u2019s the way it should be.<\/p>\n

Consumers can\u2019t\u00a0– nor should they — be bothered with the mind-boggling challenge of keeping all of those IT, facilities, and building management systems purring in harmony on the data center floor. All they want is the information those systems deliver in milliseconds so they can pursue their professional and personal lives with maximum freedom, choice, and success.<\/p>\n

And I don\u2019t blame them.<\/p>\n

In fact, I\u2019m very much like them.<\/p>\n

Immediate and Valuable Information<\/h3>\n

I, too, want holistic information at my fingertips. But the information that I want, instantly and effortlessly, is a different kind of information. My colleagues and I want context-rich information about all of the assets, systems, applications, and workflows that feed into the operation of the data center so we can manage the physical infrastructure smarter.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to be buried in massive amounts of unrelated and indecipherable spreadsheets. I don’t want to be overwhelmed with tons of infrastructure-level minutia, literally trying to \u201cconnect the dots.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, I want holistic management information \u2013 instantly \u2013 at my fingertips. Information that is already \u201cconnected\u201d and is contextually-rich, meaningful, and actionable so I can clearly see the disposition of the entire physical ecosystem and how to optimize it.<\/p>\n

I want to be in what I call, the \u201cInformation Bubble.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Information Bubble<\/h3>\n

DCIM with interactive 3D visualization creates what I describe as an \u201cinformation bubble\u201d \u2013 a holistic, intuitive, real-time management environment, which, both literally and figuratively, immerses you in analytics, dashboards, and management tools giving you complete command-and-control over the physical ecosystem.<\/p>\n

I call it a \u201cbubble\u201d because all of the information you need is right at your fingertips \u2013 and all of underlying data that got you there is beyond the bubble, outside of your periphery. So you\u2019re neither distracted nor confused.<\/p>\n

Inside the bubble:<\/p>\n