Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) is a software that provides data centre operators the ability to efficiently run data centre operations and improve the infrastructure planning and design.

DCIM software acts as bridge for information across organizational domains such as data centre Operations, facilities, and IT for maximizing the utilization of the data centre.

Power usage effectiveness (PUE) is a ratio, that describes how efficiently a computer data center uses energy. It describes how much energy is used by the computing equipment, in contrast to cooling and other overheads that supports the equipment.

The Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) is designed to improve data center optimization in the Federal Government. The policy builds on existing federal IT policy and fulfills the data center requirements of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA).

WUE (water usage effectiveness) is a metric developed by ‘The Green Grid’ to help data centers measure how much water a facility uses for cooling and other building needs.

Asset management refers to a systematic management of data center infrastructure assets across their complete life cycles.

A configuration management database (CMDB) is an ITIL term for a database used by an organization to store information about hardware and software assets. It is useful to break down configuration items into logical layers.

The process of automatically searching and identifying data center assets, IT and facility infrastructure, along with their associated asset information, via standards-based protocols over a network.