Monthly Archives: August 2010

Flexible 400V Power Distribution

Today’s high power demands, increasing power costs and constantly changing equipment require data center and facilities managers to look for power solutions that can deliver a lot of power but are flexible. A typical data center has both medium density … Continue reading

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Why Raritan IT is adopting a new naming scheme in Power IQ

Raritan IT team recently decided to change our naming and association schemes in Power IQ.  This change reflects the new level of power usage details IT wants to track, and how we plan to utilize such information to measure energy … Continue reading

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Government Security, Compliance and Remote Access

IT administrators in the government space are concerned about three things when they arrive at their place of work: security, security and security. With the recent, and not so recent, cyber attacks on military and civilian agency networks, the government … Continue reading

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Raritan will be at DatacenterDynamics in Washington, DC on August 31st

Come visit the Raritan booth at DatacenterDynamics in Washington, DC on August 31st to learn about our intelligent energy management solutions.  For more information and to register, visit http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/washington.

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ASHRAE – Colder is Not Better for a Data Center

If colder is not better and we agree you can save energy by increasing the temperature – why are data center managers still over-cooling? The reason is that many data center managers don’t have the information to safely increase the … Continue reading

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Who was the SECOND man to walk on the Moon?

The world of IT is looking for Pioneers, leaders to stand up and think differently about the IT challenge. These new pioneers will understand that the previous rules in IT have changed in the past four years (due primarily to the costs of energy) and are actively looking for ways to navigate these new challenges of the Data Center. Continue reading

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ASHRAE – Colder is Not Better for a Data Center

In my last post, I explained that “it is widely accepted that you can save energy by avoiding over cooling a data center”. That seems like a fair statement to accept, but have had one person question this statement – … Continue reading

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You are not alone…

According to one of the largest IT analyst firms, the deployment by enterprises of any form of comprehensive PHYSICAL IT MANAGEMENT solution is less than ONE PERCENT (1%) today. This same source forsees the rapid adoption of these solutions across the … Continue reading

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Increase Temperature and Save Energy

Who is ASHRAE and how can they help data center mangers save energy? The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning (“ASHRAE”), founded in 1894, is an international organization with 51,000 persons. ASHRAE fulfills its mission of advancing heating, ventilation, … Continue reading

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