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January/February 2019 I 57 MAXIMIZING RETURN ON INVESTMENT: When Intelligent Power Distribution Units and DCIM Collaborate One of the daily operational challenges for facilities and IT network managers in data centers is managing site capacity. How do you deliver reliable power and cooling to equipment and use every possible rack space before investing in additional capacity? Capacity planning might be easier if every device used equal and steady amounts of power and cooling, allowing the division of resources equally across racks. But modern compute does not operate that way. Data center equipment continues to become more compact and powerful, and modern networks are built across multiple devices, not just one. Today's data center managers and operators face machines that operate at high utilization with constantly varying demands as workloads change. The impact is varying power, environmental and supply air requirements—for every rack in the site, at any time of the day. This ever-changing environment can be easily managed by actively monitoring at the rack-level where the variability is created and must be By Ashish Moondra