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Smart Federal Government DC Management
The US government uses 1.5% of all energy consumed in the United States. In dollar value, this is approximately $30B per year for energy. Executive Order (EO) 13514 was designed to establish a path which the federal government could follow … Continue reading
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
When Considering a Centralized Management Solution, Know the Advantages of a Turn-Key Appliance
. . . compared to a more complex hub & spoke approach, which can require significant management overhead of multiple 3rd party servers, constant dB synchronization and complex licensing, appliances enlist a straightforward failover and expansion approach. Licensing is straightforward when compared to the often confusing array of licensing options needed to cover a variety of hub/spoke combinations. As a result, a typical appliance-based solution costs thousands less than a hub & spoke deployment. Continue reading
Dominion KX II Release 2.4 Available
Dominion® KX II is Raritan’s enterprise-class, KVM-over-IP switch that provides anytime, anywhere remote access and control. Release 2.4 provides many new and exciting features including (1) mobile KVM access via Apple iPad /iPhone and (2) digital audio over IP for … Continue reading
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