Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)

Overview: 

Sandpiper is the industry leader in providing innovative, green and effective Data Center Facilities, Architecture, Management & Move services.  Our customers find that their traditional techniques and management practices must be enhanced or completely replaced to meet the challenge of managing their rapidly growing number of assets and data center infrastructure components.  Identifying and managing power and cooling resource requirements, controlling available space for new hardware, and retiring unused assets is becoming too difficult using spreadsheets, and CAD software. 

The Solution:

Sandpiper provides the industry’s most effective and rapidly growing automated Data Center Information Management (DCIM) solutions to provide for your Data Center of the Future. Combining this best in class automated DCIM solution with our years of Data Center Management knowledge, Sandpiper provides one of the industry’s most comprehensive DCIM solutions available.

Automating DCIM:

The Sandpiper Suite of products replaces spreadsheets and Visio diagrams with DCIM software that contains the predictive intelligence and management controls data center professionals need to reduce operational risks and achieve smarter, more efficient and highly available data centers. The Sandpiper DCIM suite provides a unique combination of:

  • Intelligent capacity planning that delivers actionable information for optimizing the use of power, cooling and space through the optimal placement of data center assets
  • Business process automation that improves availability and operational excellence


The Sandpiper Suite is an integrated set of modules specifically designed to help data center personnel make better decisions as they solve the complex problems they face every day. The Sandpiper DCIM solution helps data center management find those under-utilized IT assets, provides quicker Moves, Adds, and Changes (MAC) to the physical infrastructure, and uses sophisticated automation to optimize the physical capacities of power, cooling and space while improving IT service delivery.

The Sandpiper Suite ranges from our entry level Express Edition up to our fully featured Enterprise Edition.  Because all of the Sandpiper Editions are built on the same infrastructure, moving from entry-level to enterprise-class is quick and easy.

The Sandpiper DCIM solution provides a complete set of software modules that lets you Visualize the physical infrastructure, and Model the Move, Add, Change (MAC) initiatives across your data center estate. Sandpiper Software  also includes a number of fully integrated optional modules to support the other steps of the Sandpiper process cycle, including the ability to automatically Discover IT assets, Control data center processes and personnel, Report on progress using advanced integrated analytic capabilities, and a trending and forecasting module to Predict capacity resources well into the future.

Sandpiper will perform the analysis of your data center and develop the installation / implementation plan for the Sandpiper DCIM solution. 

Following this review with your data center management, our team will install and implement the Sandpiper DCIM solution. Once the software is installed and configured properly, Sandpiper will provide the training required for your Data Center Managers to proactively manage your infrastructure, increasing utilization and reducing costs. 

In many data centers, Installing and utilizing Sandpiper’s automated DCIM solution, can reduce the cost of computing by 30% or more.