Category Archives: Green Data Center

Information, news, and commentary about data center efficiency; best practices.

Data Center Infrastructure Management: The Case for Automating Data Center Asset Management. Visit the Raritan Booth at DCD Toronto on December 12 to learn more.

There’s no secret that the majority of data center incidents are caused by human error. This can result in: poor capacity planning, manual audits, slow business process and overall operational inefficiencies. Join our presentation at 12:30 p.m. and learn how automation … Continue reading

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Gartner Data Center Conference

Gartner Data Center Conference Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV Monday, December 5-7, 2011 Booth # 42 Come to our booth to see Raritan’s Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution – dcTrack. dcTrack brings an even stronger asset, capacity and change … Continue reading

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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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Data Center Discussion Panel Event & Reception (Tour of Telx’s 8th Avenue Data Center Included)

Come see Raritan at the September 29th Datacenter Marketplace Event in New York and Learn About PUE Effectiveness. You are invited to attend the complimentary Data Center Discussion Panel Event Thursday September 29, 2011 from 12:00pm – 5:30pm, at Andaz … 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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The Power Struggle

In Australia the cost of electricity is rising by 10% year-on-year, an expense that can quickly translate to vast sums for large Australian enterprises. In 2009 Gartner found that energy costs would emerge as a company’s highest operating cost, second … Continue reading

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Monitor Everything, More IS better!

I remember sitting in an audience in Las Vegas a couple years ago where a large software vendor was delivering a keynote at AFCOM, discussing the ways that data centers were transforming due primarily to the rising costs of energy. During that … Continue reading

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Raritan IT publishes measured power savings by Power IQ

In late August 2010, I wrote on this blog last time that Raritan IT will use Power IQ and PX to monitor the incremental power consumption of the Cisco UCS, while we gradually migrate some physical rack-mount physical servers as … Continue reading

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Raritan will be at the Green Data Center Conference in NYC on October 20th and 21st

Raritan will be at the Green Data Center Conference on Oct. 20-21, 2010 at the Embassy Suites New York (102 North End Avenue, New York, NY).  Come check us out to learn about the latest in power management solutions.

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Why CIOs Should See Their Power Bills

Data center infrastructures have grown and evolved in step with technology advancements.  In  amassing  the most-advanced technologies and powerful IT equipment to process the ever-growing data spawned by the Internet era, data centers today are sprawling information fortresses  – reaching … Continue reading

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