Category Archives: Energy Monitoring

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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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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ASHRAE – Colder is Not Better for a Data Center

If colder is not better and we agree you can save energy by increasing the temperature – why are data center managers still over-cooling? The reason is that many data center managers don’t have the information to safely increase the … Continue reading

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ASHRAE – Colder is Not Better for a Data Center

In my last post, I explained that “it is widely accepted that you can save energy by avoiding over cooling a data center”. That seems like a fair statement to accept, but have had one person question this statement – … Continue reading

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Increase Temperature and Save Energy

Who is ASHRAE and how can they help data center mangers save energy? The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning (“ASHRAE”), founded in 1894, is an international organization with 51,000 persons. ASHRAE fulfills its mission of advancing heating, ventilation, … Continue reading

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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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Power IQ: open architecture and interoperability

A key aspect of our Power IQ application is the open architecture and interoperability it provides. From day one it was clear that Power IQ needs to work nicely with other tools and applications in the data center, and open … Continue reading

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Raritan presenting at BICSI Indianapolis on July 26th

How do you use PUE to minimize wasted power?  How do you identify stranded power and thereby possibly delay the construction of a very expensive new data center?  How do justify  the investment to gather detailed power information?  Attend our Data … Continue reading

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