Dell EMC's Extreme Scale Infrastructure (ESI) division has been developing Modular Data Centers (MDCs) solutions since 2008. Dell's micro MDCs are part of a broader effort to change data center architecture by bringing computational equipment to the edge of the network and reducing the amount of IoT data traveling to a centralized data center. But how do you monitor thousands, if not more, data centers across a geographic area? During a presentation at OSIsoft's 2017 Users Conference, Tyler Duncan, Dell's Principal Thermal and Controls Engineer, explained how his company uses the OSIsoft PI System as a “single pane of glass” to monitor its latest micro MDCs for edge computing. With the help of the PI System, Dell EMC created the MDCi platform to apply data visualization and business intelligence to its data center operations across the globe.