Data Center Infrastructure Management Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Data Center Infrastructure Management Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Data Center Infrastructure Management related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Data Center Infrastructure Management specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Data Center Infrastructure Management Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 995 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Data Center Infrastructure Management improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 995 standard requirements:


1. How does a DCIM system facilitate collaboration and communication among data center teams, including IT, facilities, and operations staff, to ensure seamless coordination and efficient decision-making in high-density or hyperscale environments?
   
   

2. How does a DCIM system provide real-time monitoring and visibility into the performance and health of data center infrastructure, enabling proactive identification and resolution of potential issues in high-density or hyperscale environments?
   
   

3. In what ways does a DCIM system improve capacity planning and resource allocation in high-density or hyperscale environments, ensuring that IT resources are aligned with business needs and avoiding unnecessary capital expenditures?
   
   

4. What specific insights does a DCIM system provide into power usage, cooling systems, and other critical infrastructure components to optimize resource allocation and reduce waste in high-density or hyperscale data centers?
   
   

5. In what ways does a DCIM system provide a centralized platform for monitoring and managing data center infrastructure, eliminating the need for disparate tools and systems in high-density or hyperscale environments?
   
   

6. How does DCIM provide a unified view of the entire data center infrastructure across multiple locations or geographies, enabling better planning and coordination for data center migration and consolidation projects?
   
   

7. Can DCIM provide real-time monitoring and alerts for potential issues or faults in the data center infrastructure, enabling proactive mitigation and reducing the risk of downtime during migration and consolidation?
   
   

8. In what ways does a DCIM system enable data center operators to ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices, such as Uptime Institute's Tier Standards, in high-density or hyperscale environments?
   
   

9. Can DCIM help data center operators ensure that their testing and QA processes are aligned with business objectives and strategic goals, and what types of analytics and reporting does it provide to support this?
   
   

10. How does a DCIM system provide a comprehensive view of data center infrastructure, including IT, facilities, and operational data, to support informed decision-making in high-density or hyperscale environments?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Data Center Infrastructure Management book in PDF containing 995 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Data Center Infrastructure Management self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Data Center Infrastructure Management Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Data Center Infrastructure Management areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Data Center Infrastructure Management Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Data Center Infrastructure Management projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Data Center Infrastructure Management Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Data Center Infrastructure Management project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Closing Process Group: What areas does the group agree are the biggest success on the Data Center Infrastructure Management project?
   
   

2. Risk Management Plan: Are there alternative opinions/solutions/processes you should explore?
   
   

3. Activity Duration Estimates: What are the Data Center Infrastructure Management project management deliverables of each process group?
   
   

4. Quality Audit: Is there a risk that information provided by management may not always be reliable?
   
   

5. Roles and Responsibilities: Do you take the time to clearly define roles and responsibilities on Data Center Infrastructure Management project tasks?
   
   

6. Assumption and Constraint Log: How many Data Center Infrastructure Management project staff does this specific process affect?
   
   

7. Probability and Impact Assessment: Which functions, departments, and activities of your organization are going to be affected?
   
   

8. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: What resources (both financial and non-financial) are available/needed?
   
   

9. Procurement Audit: Budget controls: does your organization maintain an up-to-date (approved) budget for all funded activities, and perform a comparison of that budget with actual expenditures for each budget category?
   
   

10. Scope Management Plan: Have all team members been part of identifying risks?


 
Step-by-step and complete Data Center Infrastructure Management Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Data Center Infrastructure Management project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Data Center Infrastructure Management project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Data Center Infrastructure Management project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Data Center Infrastructure Management project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Data Center Infrastructure Management project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Data Center Infrastructure Management project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Data Center Infrastructure Management project with this in-depth Data Center Infrastructure Management Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Data Center Infrastructure Management projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Data Center Infrastructure Management and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Data Center Infrastructure Management investments work better.

This Data Center Infrastructure Management All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.