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Richard Dominach
July 28, 2010
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Dorothy Ochs
July 26, 2010
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 your bottom line.
Join us for a first-of-its-kind energy summit featuring power players from Raritan, Teledata Communications, Federspiel Controls, and Power Assure. Learn from the experts how to capitalize on data center energy efficiency as they debunk common misconceptions and illustrate:
July 19, 2010
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 Center Power Savings presentation at BICSI and learn how.
BICSI Region Meeting - Indianapolis, IN *
IUPUI Campus Center
420 University Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
*source: www.bicsi.org/event_details.aspx?sessionaltcd=MT-NCRGN-IN-0710
Richard Dominach
July 19, 2010
Dominion KX II Release 2.3 is now available on raritan.com for customer download. With this new firmware, the KX II will support “tiering,” two levels of connection supporting the access of up to 1024 servers. In addition, the Dominion KX II becomes the first digital KVM switch to support remote HD video resolution of 1920x1080. Other advancements include:
In addition, there are new security features and support for the Paragon Dual CIMs, which can connect one server to two KX II switches for increased reliability and access.
With this release we are reaffirming our leadership in the digital KVM market with support for HD video resolutions, supporting new customer configurations (tiering and the Paragon Dual CIMs), providing new levels of IT productivity, and remaining the most secure digital switch in the industry.
For more information on this free firmware upgrade, see:
https://www.raritan.com/dominion-kx-ii
https://www.raritan.com/support/dominion-kx-ii/
July 15, 2010
One would assume that data centers are a place where high tech gets introduced and the mass PC market is a followers market. However, there are plenty of examples where it is just the other way around. For years the processor market was driven by the battle between Intel® and AMD®. This battle was fought where the volume was and is — consumer PCs. Another good example is the keyboard interface. Servers still used PS/2 when it was already hard to get a non-USB keyboard for consumer PCs. Also, the good old VGA interface has only survived in the metal rack cabinets of data centers and data rooms.
Two more innovations from the mainstream consumer PC market are about to enter the DC world and worth to be mentioned: