Covid Turns The Spotlight On ‘Lightsout' Data Center

Data centers are the backbone of today’s Digital Economy. By forcing people to work from home, the COVID-19 crisis has forced enterprises to rethink how they access and manage their data centers too. Lights-out or unmanned data centers became more critical in such scenarios. Anjani Kommisetti, Country Manager- India & SAARC, Raritan & ServerTech explains how Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) helped enterprises emerge from the crisis and now as the scramble for digital transformation thrust upon us by the pandemic begins to subside, why they must consider investing heavily in the remote data center management capabilities. Excerpt:

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ANJANI KOMMISETTI Country Manager- India & SAARC, Raritan & ServerTech

Lights-out’ data centers, remote management become critical during Covid

A lights-out data center reduces the number of physical visits to the data center. Controlling physical visits brings a lot of advantages in various areas such as reducing human errors, increasing security, optimizing resources, etc. This also helps to save energy by keeping the data center dark and climate-controlled.