The Raritan Blog

Raritan's DCIM Wins NetworkWorld Product Excellence Award 2013

Paula Alves
January 10, 2014

Cisco Saves Millions by Deploying Thousands of Smart PDUs

Michael Bord
December 26, 2013

 

Imagine being able to save your company millions of dollars per year by investing in a low-cost, easy-to-install solution that’s simple to adopt and fits right into your existing infrastructure. If it sounds dumb, or perhaps too good to be true, take note—Cisco has just done it.

4 Ways Intelligent PDUs Can Help you Save Money

Nina Kvitka
December 20, 2013

1. Use metering to help you identify “ghost servers.” A SUN survey estimates 8 to 10% of servers are “ghost” servers (servers running idle). Using an intelligent metered PDU, such as one of Raritan’s PX models can help you identify these servers. Exorcise ghost servers and save real money.

2. While you’re at it, use the same data to help identify older, less efficient servers. Replacing older servers with new, energy-efficient models reduces server power consumption by 25%.

3. Set up some smart sensors with your intelligent PDU to learn where you’re overcooling your data center. PX environmental sensors monitor temperature and alert you when user-defined high (too warm) and low (excessively cool) thresholds are exceeded. Use the ASHRAE defined standards and safely raise temperatures, saving energy and money on excessive cooling.

4. Make your capacity planning and provisioning decisions with real-time data. Intelligent PDUs gather the data to make your data center’s true power capacity visible.

Experiment with the Raritan Power Management ROI Calculator to see how the savings can add up for your data center. 

Melbourne DCD and Raritan DCIM Share Same View of Asia Pacific Market

Minder Singh
November 4, 2013

Recently, our own James Cerwinski (2nd from right in this pic) completed a long flight to attend DCD Melbourne to support our team from Australia. James is one of Raritan Americas’ DCIM thought leaders.

As an international company, Raritan is wired into the differing needs of data centers around the world. The DCD Melbourne website gave clues to the perceived needs in the data center community of Australia. Here’s a snippet from the home page of the Melbourne show:

“As a city with a heritage in telecommunications, finance, technology and services, the data center revolution presents the opportunity to showcase Melbourne’s capabilities beyond its borders. Census analysis indicates that Victoria accounts for around one-third of Australasia’s asset base and that both new build and refit/refresh will continue to represent key requirements for this market.” (emphasis is ours)

Frank Huang, Product Marketing Manager of Raritan Asia Pacific (pic below) takes a more granular view and comes to a similar conclusion.

“In the Asia Pacific Rim, a lot of vendors are focused on DCIM space. Most are pushing a total solution rather than building their data centers from the ground up. Roughly 70% of the companies they’re targeting are small and medium businesses rather than huge data centers. So their budgets will not allow a total DCIM solution. The solution for most of these companies is a refit/refresh so they can more carefully move to DCIM.

“Raritan has a different approach. While we start with the overall vision of DCIM, we work in a consultative way with the customer’s total picture in mind. Often we start with power management.”

Learn more about Raritan DCIM solutions

Join Raritan at DCD Seattle

August 27, 2013

Join Chris Trovato and Kimble Jarrold of Raritan at Data Center Dynamics 2013 at the Hilton Bellevue in Seattle. It’s the world’s largest peer-led data center conference & expo and Raritan will be there.

Show Details:
Thursday, September 12th, 2013
Hilton Bellevue, 300 – 112th Avenue SE, Bellevue, WA 98004
Check back here soon for our booth number.

Exhibit Hours:
Friday, July 12th

• 7:45 a.m. – 9:15 a.m., Breakfast
• 9:15 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., Sessions/Exhibit
• 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m., Cocktail Reception

Be sure to stop by our booth to pick up our famous LED pens and durable Solo coffee cups.

For more information, please email Dorothy Ochs or call at 1.732.764.8886 ext.1220

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