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A Thanksgiving Message

Dear Data Center Manager, Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the USA. I’m finishing up this blog before heading to the grocery store to pick up the few things I forgot to purchase earlier in the week. How did I manage … 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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DCIM – How Do I Decide What’s Right For Me and Cut Through All the Hype and Confusion?

As SVP of Global Sales and Marketing for Raritan, I have had the opportunity to speak with many different companies around the world that have been considering a DCIM solution. In most cases, the conversation quickly turns to “with over … Continue reading

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Raritan at Cisco Live!

2011 Cisco Live! Raritan Booth #849 July 11-14, 2011 Mandalay Bay Resort and Convention Center Las Vegas, Nevada

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For Existing CC-SG Customers It’s Easy to Migrate to a Virtual CC

My last few blog posts have focused on the benefits of deploying the CommandCenter Secure Gateway as a virtual appliance (VA). Now, with the release of CC-SG 5.1, it’s time to talk about how CC-SG hardware appliance users are shifting … Continue reading

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The Datacenter Journal Provides Good Insight Into the Benefits of the New CommandCenter Virtual Appliance

A recent article in The Datacenter Journal provides a quick overview of the new virtual CommandCenter Secure Gateway and sums up its benefits very nicely.  Please check it out here. One quick and minor correction:  The evaluation version now enables … Continue reading

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When Deploying a Centralized IT Management Solution, Leverage the Advantages of a Virtual Appliance

Vendors in the IT and data center space are beginning to make their centralized management systems available as a virtual appliance, enabling them to run on leading virtualization platforms. This is the case with Raritan’s CommandCenter Secure Gateway (CC-SG). A new version will be released in November that can be deployed as a VMware virtual machine. Continue reading

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Be careful what you ask for…

You know a good friend of mine used to say to me, “Be careful what you ask for… You may just get it!” and I have to say, the words never rang truer than today in the DCIM category. There … Continue reading

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Raritan is co-presenting “400V Data Center Solutions” with Starline at the Sept. 30th DatacenterDynamics show in Chicago.

We will be displaying our intelligent PDU’s, KVM-over-IP switch and DCIM solutions in our booth. Stop by and visit us – you’ll be entered into our drawing for a Canon digital camcorder.  For more information and to register: http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/chicago

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Video over USB 3.0

USB 2.0 already allowed connecting additional Displays to Desktop PCs and Notebooks thanks to a technology provided by Displaylink. The most recent devices offer screen resolutions beyond the 1600×1200 barrier and the next evolutionary steps is in front of us.  … Continue reading

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