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Q&A: Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Part 1

In part one of a two-part Q&A series about Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM), Paul Goodison, VP of Infrastructure Solutions and Brad Beamish, Director of Professional Services, both from Cormant, a division of BGIS. How aware are professionals in the Critical Environments industry of Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and software tools? Brad: I think …

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Don’t Let an IT Outage Become Your Next PR Challenge

If you lost mobile or internet service in July, you’re not alone Millions of subscribers found themselves without cellular and internet service starting July 8th, with some not having service restored before the weekend’s end. The cause? A massive network system failure related to a maintenance update in a provider’s core network. And while the …

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BGIS Cormant Secures Multiple Trellis™ to Cormant DCIM Migration Projects

Over the past 18 years, at BGIS Cormant, we have migrated customers to Cormant DCIM from pretty much every DCIM solution out there, in some cases from solutions that don’t even exist anymore. I’m proud to say every customer we have migrated to Cormant-CS from a previous solution is still a customer today. These customers …

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BGIS Expands Their Critical Environments Service, Acquires Global DCIM Firm, Cormant

SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA, USA, February 1, 2021 — BGIS and Cormant announced today that they have completed a transaction under which BGIS has acquired Cormant, a leading global Data Center (DCIM) and IT Infrastructure Management software provider. Cormant’s Chief Executive Officer, Paul Goodison, and his team will remain in place and work within BGIS …

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Cormant DCIM Mobility Makes Asset Audits Work

In this blog post, Brad Beamish, Director of Consulting Services for Cormant, reviews why auditing is an essential part of a successful DCIM deployment. The Equipment Validation Challenge Cormant routinely manages DCIM deployments for customers where Cormant DCIM replaces an existing tool set for managing IT infrastructure.  In many cases, the current system (often spreadsheets …

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Fixed Price Projects

Director of Professional Services, Brad Beamish, discusses Cormant’s Guaranteed Price Project Solution. To reduce the perception customers have that DCIM deployments are complex, uncertain and excessively long Cormant has been quoting many DCIM deployment projects recently with guaranteed pricing. Don’t get me wrong, DCIM projects can still be complex to fully deploy and integrate with …

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Cormant-CS Announces Monthly Webinars

Spreadsheets to DCIM in 20 Minutes, is the first in a series of live, web based information sessions presented by Cormant Inc., the developers of Cormant-CS.  This information session reviews how customers can get instant value from their existing spreadsheet records by importing these records into Cormant-CS.  This session covers topics such as: Reviewing typical spreadsheet records …

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Cormant-CS Delivers Power Management Capabilities

The latest release of the Cormant-CS DCIM solution now includes additional out-of-the-box support for real time power and environmental queries.  With queried data available in Cormant-CS, users can configure reports, dashboards and alerts based on the desired threshold.  Cormant includes support for the following PDU manufacturers: Server Technology, Geist, Raritan, Eaton, APC and Tripp Lite. …

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What I Have Come to Understand About DCIM

A personal note from Steve Allegretti. 2017 was another learning year for me in the world of DCIM.   All of the private companies I spoke with last year had the same basic challenges of: Optimizing Asset Management Efficiently Monitoring Power and Environmental Factors Creating Relevant Alerts Change Management Best Practices Streamlining Report Functionality Companies overall …

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