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Technology. It’s ever-changing. Fast-paced. Complex. How can any company or organization, no matter which industry or market, keep up? The answer lies in flexible, adaptable, and agile data center physical infrastructure and real-time management software. Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center’s 7,500 square foot data center, David Plamondon, Data Center Operations Architect, understands the impact of changing technology firsthand. The biggest challenges are daily technology changes and having to support the latest and greatest equipment while staying within the original data center design specifications. “Our previous IT infrastructure monitoring either did not exist or was spread across three departments that were all using different tools, he notes. In search of big picture visibility “You can’t properly run a data center unless you have a complete picture of what is going on at any one time in either the facilities or IT side...