Monthly Archives: July 2010

Integrated Network, Console and Power Management at Raritan Data Center

At Raritan’s data centers, we integrate network monitoring and management with console management and power management into a single global IT dashboard.  From the IT dashboard, IT members can see the current hot issues and track their progresses, or click … Continue reading

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IT Productivity Boosts

IT administrators are the consummate multi-taskers!  Never have I seen a job with more to do, more interruptions, and more #1 priorities.   KVM-over-IP and Access Systems can be a huge benefit giving IT admins instant, remote access to hundreds or … Continue reading

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Join Industry Pros for a Data Center Efficiency Event! Keynote Address: “The Integrated System to Manage the Data Center Ecology” by Bill Dunckel, PG&E.

Full Power: Join us as we share our ideas on how to efficiently power your data center and impact your bottom line. Energy is the single largest expense of data center operations. Improving efficiency is the surest way to impact … Continue reading

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“Real-Time” is NOT a product…

Real-Time is NOT a product. It’s one of the many attributes of the IT infrastructure. That said, it is no surprize that everywhere you look the concept of Real-Time has popped up and the search for Real-Time is in progress. Continue reading

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Power IQ: open architecture and interoperability

A key aspect of our Power IQ application is the open architecture and interoperability it provides. From day one it was clear that Power IQ needs to work nicely with other tools and applications in the data center, and open … Continue reading

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Raritan presenting at BICSI Indianapolis on July 26th

How do you use PUE to minimize wasted power?  How do you identify stranded power and thereby possibly delay the construction of a very expensive new data center?  How do justify  the investment to gather detailed power information?  Attend our Data … Continue reading

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Data Center Infrastructure Management really *IS* new!

One of the last opportunites to competitively differentiate within IT, optimize cost structures and make data centers work more smoothly deals with the area of IT that has been the LEAST POPULAR over those same years… the lifecycle management of assets in a formalized way. Continue reading

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New Dominion KX II Firmware v2.3 Available

Dominion KX II Release 2.3 is now available on raritan.com for customer download. With this new firmware, the KX II will support “tiering,” two levels of connection supporting the access of up to 1024 servers.   In addition, the the Dominion … Continue reading

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How desktop technology drives data centres

One would assume that data centers are a place where high tech gets introduced and the mass PC market is a followers market. However there are plenty of examples where it is just the other way around. For years the … Continue reading

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Can I Get Some Feedback Here?

Data Center automation is a worthy and important goal for most organizations. This may be true whether you are running lights out, collocated or just with a lean staff. The more routine operations and processes that can be removed from … Continue reading

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