A new way to understand and operate the digital infrastructure that powers Europe
A data center combines facility infrastructure, hardware, and virtual systems to provide reliable computing resources. It forms the technical foundation on which digital services operate.
Extended Reality (XR) combines virtual, augmented, and mixed reality technologies to provide intuitive and immersive ways to explore and understand complex information.
The Digital Twin provides a structured digital representation of assets, while the AAS ensures the underlying data is consistent and machine-interpretable. Together, they create a unified and reliable foundation for managing data center information.
Modern data centers span three distinct layers: facility infrastructure, hardware systems, and virtualized services. In most organizations these layers operate in isolation: separate teams, tools, and information structures that fragment the view of the environment they jointly operate. IDCM treats the data center as what it actually is: a single, integrated system where changes in one layer cascade into the others. By connecting facility, hardware, and virtualization into one coherent view, IDCM makes these dependencies visible and manageable.
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Extended Reality (XR) transforms the data center from a set of dashboards into a space you can explore. Virtual Reality lets operators navigate a complete digital representation of their facility. Augmented Reality overlays live asset states directly on physical equipment. Mixed Reality connects distributed teams in shared spatial environments. Together, VR, AR, and MR make complex multi-layer infrastructure legible and accessible to everyone who operates it.
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The Digital Twin provides a lifecycle-wide representation of every asset – from cooling units to virtual workloads – connected across all three data center layers. The Asset Administration Shell (AAS) is its structural backbone: standardized submodels that make asset data machine-readable, vendor-neutral, and always traceable to its authoritative source. Together, they create a unified information layer that enables consistent decision-making, cross-layer analysis, and reliable automation without replacing the tools teams already use.
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