Category Archives: Data Center Technologies

The latest technologies for the data center.

Smart and efficient data centers begin with smarter racks. Visit the Raritan Booth (#1) at the DCD Chicago show on October 6th to learn more.

In addition to traditional uptime goals, Data center managers now need to efficiently manage IT assets, capacity, changes, the environment, power, energy, and carbon. It all boils down to the care and feeding of IT assets in racks. With so … Continue reading

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October 20th Boston Data Center Leadership Summit – Learn How Your Peers are Solving Challenges.

Hyatt Regency Boston (Cape Cod Room) Learn about the latest trends and technologies for data center cooling, active airflow, environment, power, rack and cabling, and electronic asset management. Featured guest speakers include Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, Columbia University and the National … Continue reading

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Metering, Measuring and Managing. Get Started.

Energy Management as a discipline and business concern is now at an intersection of major technological, regulatory and financial trends that are driving its implementation. • Rising energy costs or at least the threat of rising costs • Increasing likelihood … Continue reading

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Tools

There are many types of “disasters” that can occur in a data center.  These can range from an all encompassing failure to the loss of certain critical IT services.  These can happen at any time related to human error, system … Continue reading

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What to Look for in a Smart Card-Enabled KVM Solution

Using a smart card to access a PC or server that’s within arm’s reach is easy. However, a major challenge is to support this directive in the data center or any application in which users must access multiple servers or PCs that are often located in a separate room, let alone several feet away. Continue reading

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VM’s and ILO’s and RDP, oh my!

So, you’ve built a state of the art lights out data center with all the latest best of breed technologies. You have virtual machines, Windows servers, Linux/Unix servers, assorted service processors, blade systems, and a resilient network and security infrastructure. … Continue reading

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It’s NOT about the Aisles, it’s about the Inlets!

So many people have lost sight of the fact that cooling within a data center is not really a phylisophical activity, it’s about moving heat away from the sensitive electronics inside various types of equipment within a temperature range specified by the manufacturer. Continue reading

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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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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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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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