For a typical computer user simply installing an OS and few small software packages is enough to get a computer up and running, ready to complete any of the everyday computing tasks people need to get done. For data centers it’s not so simple, there are a lot of components to a data center’s infrastructure that require more attention to detail, in some cases a special piece of software is needed just to get the job done. Data centers require a different type of operating system than a home computer, and several kinds of software to make the hardware in the data center ready to provide data to it’s many end user’s. Data centers need to keep their machines running twenty four hours a day in order to meet customer demand, and data center software that allows them to do it efficiently. Because data centers have a lot of hardware running they need to find a way to optimize power consumption, operate between several different OS’s, or even gear up to change over to the latest operating system. All of those tasks require a different kind of software in order for them to work smoothly. For a home use switching to a new operating system is as simple as putting a disc in the drive, for data centers it can be a lot more difficult. Data centers still need to keep running while they switch to the new OS, it’s not feasible for a data center to shut down for several days while making the switch. Data centers need full infrastructure control at all times, some software providers offer full DCIM solutions to help make operation of a data center easier. DCIM in a nutshell is the concept of controlling as much as possible...