Data centres have utilised barcodes and paper inventory to keep track of IT Assets. The combination of physical labour and human error causes excessive inventory time and widens the possibility of inventory omissions with a productivity cost and monetary loss.
At the end of each fiscal quarter, financial institutions, large scale manufacturers, and content delivery network providers need to account for every server that is currently in service, has been moved, replaced, needs replacement, and at the base level, servers and assets that have entered and exited the server room.
