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Category Archives: Data Center
Data Center Monitoring
Raritan recently contracted with the Datacenter Research Group (part of the Datacenter Dynamics organization) to conduct primary research and produce a white paper on monitoring power and environmental conditions in United States data centers. The key findings are that most … Continue reading
How to Calculate Current on a 3-phase, 208V Rack PDU (Power Strip)
Problem Statement In recent years, extending 3-phase power distribution all the way to server cabinets and racks has become extremely popular in new data center builds — for many good reasons. Principally, for cabinet power capacities above 5kVA, utilizing 3-phase … 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
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
Power Management challenges in the federal government
The federal government has hundreds of data centers that are full of network equipment, cooling apparatus, servers and storage appliances. These data centers account for approximately 10% of the total electricity used by all data centers in the United States. … Continue reading
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
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.
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
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
Are you over-cooling your Data Center?
You should consider the following steps if think you are over-cooling your data center or lab – this will likely result in significant energy savings. 1. Start monitoring – Deploy temperature and humidity sensors according to industry recommendations(the top, middle … Continue reading