The world of DCIM, or data centre infrastructure management has been evolving over the last four years to the point that it has now been granted its first ever Magic Quadrant grading by analyst Gartner.

The big players – that is biggest corporates who have developed software suites in this sector include Emerson and Schneider Electric which will not be well known to IT professioanls but who are global energy equipment suppliers.

DCIM solutions offer monitoring of data centres for greater efficiency. Approaches to the market range from power system monitoring to complete Data Center operating system from IO.