Case Study: UF Health Shands achieves 50% improved asset tracking and real-time capacity visibility with Sunbird DCIM

UF Health Shands Manages Data Center Resources and IT Health with Sunbird’s dcTrack® DCIM Solution

UF Health Shands, a large academic health system supporting 200+ applications and rapid storage growth, needed a better way to track equipment, capacity, and end-to-end connectivity across multiple data centers because spreadsheets and Visio floor plans were no longer sufficient. To solve this, UF Health Shands selected Sunbird DCIM’s dcTrack DCIM solution.

Sunbird DCIM implemented dcTrack in phases with onsite training, auto-discovery, workflow integration (including LANDesk), and end-to-end connection tracing to provide up‑to‑the‑minute views of power, space, networking and cooling. The deployment improved asset-location efficiency by 50%, streamlined moves/adds/changes, enabled capacity planning and PUE tracking, and sped troubleshooting and forecasting — all delivered by Sunbird DCIM.

UF Health Shands

Joseph Keena

Manager of Data Center Operations