Why Modius OpenData Defines Smart Digital Infrastructure
This was overheard last week from a seasoned data center veteran: DCIM largely failed to live up to its past promises… What do you think? Another over-hyped hype cycle? The technologies of modern, “smart” infrastructure management weren’t available a decade ago — or were rare and unaffordable –or seen as unnecessary — or certainly not in the sense of seconds of real-time immediacy. As a result, adopters of DCIM a decade ago — often themselves without a clear understanding of the business problems they wished to solve –- dove head-first into a “boiling-the-ocean” approach. First, the term Internet of Things (IoT), coined in 1999, hadn’t yet been extrapolated to include DCIM. […]