Category Archives: Energy Monitoring

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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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

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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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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

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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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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

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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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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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