Why DCIM (Data Centre Infrastructure Management) Still Fails When Data Centres Need It Most
IoTNOW, Friday, March 27th, 2026
Data Centre Infrastructure Management, or DCIM, implies a lot. A unified command layer: one system that ties together power, cooling, and compute, understands how they interact, and gives operators a coherent picture before things go wrong. Walk into most enterprise data centres and what you find is something else entirely.
In practice, what exists across most facilities is a collection of independently deployed systems: a SCADA or BMS for engineering infrastructure, a separate NMS for network monitoring, an ITSM layer for incident management, and physical access control on its own stack. Each does its job within its own domain. The trouble starts when those domains collide.