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Dorothy Ochs
October 11, 2010
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.
Susana Thompson
September 30, 2010
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 over one million square feet and processing terabytes and petabytes of information daily. The creation of the modern data center focused on uptime and availability, and without much thought to energy— so it is no surprise that today’s data centers are not energy efficient. With their insatiable appetite for energy and skyrocketing energy costs, data centers face a number of power-related problems.
Dorothy Ochs
September 15, 2010
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: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/conferences/.
James Cerwinski
September 14, 2010
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 and bottom of the server inlet side of the rack). You can conveniently connect sensors to rack PDUs.
2. Determine if you are over-cooling — Deploy a system to chart your readings to indicate if you are operating within the ASHRAE 2008 recommended range. In 2008, ASHRAE increased their recommended upper temperature limit to 80.6F.
3. If you are over-cooling consider gradually increasing your temperature.
4. Monitor for hot spots — Use a system that will generate events and notifications when non-critical and critical temperature and humidity thresholds are violated.
5. Be aware of long term trends — Chart maximum and minimum environmental readings for long term trend analysis.
James Cerwinski
September 14, 2010
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 1600x1200 barrier and the next evolutionary steps are in front of us. On the upcoming Intel Developers Forum IDF DisplayLink and SMSC will show Video over USB 3.0. This does not only mean even more speed and even more pixels, DisplayLinks chip family DL 3000 and DL1000 integrate Graphics, Network, and Audio functions on one chip. This allows to transmit HD video and Gigabit Ethernet over one single USB 3.0 cable. One imaginable application should be USB docking stations connected to PCs/Notebooks with one single cable. Once the mobile handset vendors agree to this the mobile plus such a docking station will form almost a PC environment on the desktop.
What does all this mean for Desktop KVM? It gets simpler, cheaper, and hopefully more feature-rich and on our Desktops is a little bit more space for more gadgets.