After the design/build of the data center and loading it up with your critical servers, the next logical thing to do is to make sure that this data center runs as smoothly as possible – managing “Critical Equipment” that supports the data center is the start. If you are the one managing the Data Center, you need to make sure that you are notified before-hand that something “will” fail or something “might” fail and this is where Data Center Management steps-in.