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Raritan Dominion PX
PCQuest
By Anindya Roy
"Here's an innovative solution that remotely manages and monitors the power supply to your datacenter...Bottomline: Brilliant product for remotely managing the power of your IT equipment."
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eChanneline News
"Raritan has released a new intelligent power distribution unit (PDU) capable of monitoring power usage on an individual outlet basis, allowing end-customers to get the most out of their power capacity. The Raritan Dominion PX was designed to make it easier for companies to get a much better idea of their exact power usage rather than guessing based on the maximum power utilization statistics given by server and device manufacturers, which can often be at least 25 per cent more than the typical usage model."
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ZDnet
By Michael Palamountain
‘We always ask what our computers can do for us, but do we ever stop and think about what we can do for them? Being kind to your equipment will result in better reliability and a reduced likelihood of failure. A quick look at the specifications for your equipment will show acceptable temperature and humidity levels, but have you been checking these environmental factors regularly - or at all? Hot equipment is equipment heading for failure - do you know where the heat is coming from? In server racks, heat from each machine can contribute to the discomfort of neighbouring devices.'
‘The Raritan Dominion PX keeps track of power consumption, and records temperature and humidity data from sensors placed amongst your servers. When combined with an un-interruptible power supply, we think it will keep your servers safe and happy...The bottomline: Energy savings and equipment safety is provided at a very reasonable price.' |
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SearchDataCenter
By Editor Matt Stansberry
"Somerset, N.J.- based Raritan introduced a new power distribution unit, the Dominion PX...It's super slick. Controlled remotely via a Web browser or command line interface, the Dominion PX meters, in real time, power at both the PDU level and outlet level and supports environmental sensors to monitor temperature and humidity at the rack. This is huge for data center managers trying to monitor energy use - the first step to managing energy consumption is measuring your usage."
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Raritan Acquires dcTrack Management Software
By Rich Miller
Raritan today announced it has acquired the dcTrack data center infrastructure management software from Nassoura Technology Associates. The deal underscores the growing importance of software in helping data center operators manage increasingly complex environments.
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eWeek.com - Dominion PX Harnesses Data Center Power
By Cameron Sturdevant
The Raritan device provides effective, secure power management and remote reboot.
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Raritan Dominion Racks Up Smart Power Control: Slideshow Summary
Granular power measurement is the starting point for creating a green IT data center. The Raritan Dominion PX provides the data needed to control utility costs.
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How Green IT Measures Up
By Cameron Sturdevant
There are many products and processes that make companies many shades of green; here's how and where to determine the real ROI of going green.
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Boosts to Virtualization Management Come to Raritan's CC-SG 4.0
By P.J. Connolly
September 4, 2008 — Another vendor is seeing the merits of managing virtualized systems in a comprehensive way, and has updated its management tools to reflect its new outlook.
Raritan introduced yesterday CommandCenter Secure Gateway (CC-SG) 4.0, which adds auto-discovery of virtualized systems, the ability to log and report on events in those systems, and new management views that enable a single-console view of systems along with one-click views of both physical and virtual servers. The refreshed CC-SG is available now and currently supports VMware systems; Raritan did not speak of its plans to target other virtualization platforms.
Power management features are the crux of the product's benefits. The CC-SG portal can manage intelligent PDUs (power distribution units) directly over an IP network, says the company, without the overhead of another management layer. Raritan’s own Dominion PX PDUs can, when used with CC-SG 4.0, offer real-time data on power usage for each server drawing current. The company calls this a helpful way to identify servers as candidates for virtualization, as the gear can show when a server is idle or underutilized.
CC-SG 4.0 also offers virtual power buttons that allow the suspension of VMware virtual servers. It can also access server power information. The software goes further, however, to offer a variety of remote access methods, including remote control software such as SSH, VNC or Windows Terminal Server and RDP; out-of-band console hardware such as KVMs or serial console switches; and even system-specific management controllers from Dell, HP and IBM.
CC-SG 4.0 can track the migration of virtual machines from one hypervisor to another, delivering real-time views of both the physical and virtual infrastructure. It can also handle authorization, auditing and session handoffs, noted Raritan. By using its Virtualization Manager, administrators are able to bulk-configure user or service accounts to reduce the detail work of deploying new physical or virtual servers.
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12 Technologies Midmarket Customers Need Now
By CRN Staff:
Talk about pressure.
Typical midmarket CIOs stare down myriad challenges on a daily basis: Hackers are getting craftier, work forces are becoming more dispersed, globalization is becoming a reality, and economic and environmental trends are forcing businesses of every ilk to think green.
In short, they face the same struggles as their counterparts at large enterprises, and they're looking for creative IT solutions to help tackle them.
So with Everything Channel's Midsize Enterprise Summit taking place this week in Dallas, CRN set out to identify the 12 must-have technologies that solution providers should be putting in front of their midmarket customers as well as some of the key vendors that will help them get there.
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Data Center Cooling: Raritan Dominion PX PDU
Lowering cooling costs isn't just about water cooling or hot and cold aisle set up. Power management also plays a role in running an efficient data center. Raritan's Dominion PX PDU allows resellers and customers to remotely turn power on and off, reboot, monitor and control power in a data center. Each Dominion PX PDU includes outlet-level power metering, secure IP access and user-configurable power sequencing.
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Raritan maps power usage at device level
Power IQ launched in hardware and virtual modes
Raritan is shipping Power IQ to help customers turn data collected from individual servers into insight on power usage in the datacenter.
The product provides information on power utilization and the environment surrounding servers to help IT and facilities managers improve datacenter uptime, enhance capacity planning and improve energy efficiency. It analyses device-level power information, in real time, from servers plugged into intelligent power distribution units (PDUs). The information can help identify underutilized servers as candidates to virtualize, problem hot spots or over-cooled areas, circuit breakers at the point of tripping, and racks with available power capacity to add more IT equipment.
"Tracking and displaying power at the IT device level are laying the groundwork for making high-value improvements in capacity management and energy efficiency," said James Cerwinski, senior product manager, Raritan's Power Management Business Unit. In a dynamic data center, you need stats to decide what device changes are required and, most importantly, what changes are producing the desired results in terms of energy efficiency and capacity planning. Power IQ takes guessing out of the equation."
Working through a web interface, Power IQ aggregates power-utilisation data collected from multiple intelligent rack PDUs for use in power usage trend analysis and reporting. Today's class of network-connected PDUs provide granular "IT device-level" or outlet-level metering, and provide power intelligence on each piece of equipment - such as real-time current and voltage - and rack temperature and humidity. They also enable companies to securely power on and off and power cycle connected devices from remote locations. The open database connectivity (ODBC)-compliant system can be integrated with data warehouse and enterprise reporting systems.
"Raritan's solutions let us know what kind of power is being consumed in an equipment room, and it helps identify areas where we can conserve," said Mike Carpinella Technical Services Director at law firm Duane Morris LLP. " I can go to one single console using one IP address, whether I'm in the office or coming in remotely, and look at the statistics for each of my devices in all locations. In addition, I can easily do mass firmware upgrades for all my PX devices."
The product is available in two models -- a virtual appliance and a hardware appliance. The virtual appliance is tested specifically to run on VMware.
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CRN ChannelWeb - 10 Buzz-worthy Products From XChange '08
Raritan Dominion PX
Raritan recently launched its Dominion PX power distribution unit, which measures power consumption and capacity in data centers. It can also monitor rack temperature and humidity, and provides remote management capabilities. The Dominion PX can issue alerts if set thresholds are exceeded and can play a key role in corporate Green IT initiatives, the company says. Pricing starts at $649. |
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Raring To Go Green
Raritan's KIRA 100 chip Raritan's KIRA 100 chip has a new role in the data center -- saving power. The chip adds intelligence to power strips so that realtime, detailed information on power drawn by each server plugged into the strip can be gathered. It also gathers temperature and other environmental information at the rack. Armed with this information, which can be viewed at the rack or from anywhere using a Web browser, companies can take a number of steps to reduce energy and support green computing -- including spotting inefficient or idle servers to decommission, improving cooling efficiency and identifying unused rack capacity. The KIRA100 is being used in Raritan's new Dominion PX PDUs. |
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Virtual question: Can Raritan manage?
Raritan Helps Manage Virtual/Physical Data Center Equipment
By Richard Adhikari
Raritan Helps Manage Virtual/Physical Data Center Equipment
Virtualizing the data center to consolidate servers and reduce costs has been top of mind for a while, and the big boys -- HP, IBM and CA -- have added virtual machine (VM) management capabilities to their data center management tools.
Which is as it should be; their customers are the mega-corporations. But you know that virtualization in the data center really taken hold when a relatively small player like Raritan adds VM management capabilities to its data center management offering.
Raritan's product, CommandCenter Secure Gateway, simplifies the management of heterogeneous IT environments through a unified portal, and Release 4.0 of the product, unveiled yesterday, provides standard data center management tools -- discovery, access and control, power management and auditing. It does this for both virtual and physical servers as well as networking equipment and power devices.
Release 4.0 also tracks migration of data between physical and virtual machines, and, in essence, lets administrators do pretty much anything to a VM that they can to a physical server.
"We view a virtual machine as one more item in the IT infrastructure that CommandCenter Secure Gateway can manage," Henry Hsu, Raritan's director of enterprise product management said.
Think that's a Eureka! moment? At this point in time, yes. But some day, all IT administration tools will be built this way. |
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Power to the People
Power strips may be a pretty unsexy technology. But with growing demands for energy efficiency the timing is right for Raritan (booth #426) to debut its expanded power management portfolio, including the new "smart power strip" that measures in real time the power of each server in a rack, as well as track humidity and temperature. Raritan's product line includes the Dominion PX power distribution unit that provides both rack-level and outlet-level remote power monitoring and management.
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Infoworld - Product Review: Raritan makes a Power Play
Raritan enters managed PDU market with the Raritan PX line
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The Age - Power people
Raritan's Dominion PX is an intelligent power distribution unit (PDU) that helps organisations determine their data-centre power usage and identify under-used capacity. Dominion PX supports up to eight environmental sensors per PDU, allowing IT and facilities managers to monitor power, temperature and humidity in rack cabinets as well as control power to IT equipment from anywhere. Information provided by the Dominion PX is displayed at the PDU with LEDs, and remotely through a web browser. Precise outlet-level access and control allows users to reboot attached appliances. Support for the IPMI and SMASH protocols allows greater flexibility in integrating Dominion PX with other systems and networking management systems. The Dominion PX PDU has 15 models that range from eight to 20 outlets. |
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Processor - Ensure Optimal Uptime: What You Need To Know About Testing Your Data Center's Power Equipment
In any given data center, mountains of thought are poured into the equipment that populates it. Yet, regardless of how impressive that equipment is on its own, it nonetheless relies heavily on power to give it the ability to perform. After all, show us a server without power, and we'll show you a hunk of metal that's no more valuable than junkyard scrap.
Testing power equipment isn't a glamorous task, nor is it bound to impress anyone outside of the data center. In fact, you're likely to find resistance to testing because the tests themselves can require equipment downtime. But the value of the trade-off is undeniable because when you know your power is strong enough to handle even the heaviest of loads, you'll certainly appreciate the peace of mind that comes with that knowledge....
Location, Location, Location
Part of the power testing process involves more passive processes, such as monitoring, but the way monitoring is performed can have a significant effect on the ability of the data center to stay up and running. Although you can gauge how much electricity is entering your building by looking at the meter outside the building and inspecting your power bill, you'll nonetheless have no idea how much power is being used at the server level. To accomplish that, it's important to place power measurement tools at the point the server plugs in.
"Monitoring power at a PDU level, with user-settable thresholds and alerting via email or SNMP, provides awareness of potential problems before they occur," says Herman Chan, product management director for Raritan (www.raritan.com). "For example, a user might set a threshold to receive an alert when a PDU is nearing a critical state and a circuit breaker is about to trip, thereby causing all the IT equipment on that circuit to shut down. The alert allows data center managers to take corrective action such as balancing the IT equipment load or turning off noncritical equipment." |
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SearchDataCenter - Raritan rolls out intelligent PDUs for power metering
SearchDataCenter.com ransacked Las Vegas last week, video camera in tow, to bring you the latest data center news from AFCOM's Data Center World. We met with dozens of vendors and experts, and this is a summary of what we found: Raritan rolls out intelligent PDUs for power metering
Somerset, N.J. - based Raritan introduced a new power distribution unit, the Dominion PX. I met up with Raritan's Henry Chan, and we talked about the new PDU. It's super slick. Controlled remotely via a Web browser or command line interface, the Dominion PX meters, in real time, power at both the PDU level and outlet level and supports environmental sensors to monitor temperature and humidity at the rack. This is huge for data center managers trying to monitor energy use - the first step to managing energy consumption is measuring your usage. |
Communications News - Single-port KVM switch
Suited for troubleshooting and maintaining servers in branch offices and remote sites, the Dominion KX II-101, a palm-sized, single-port KVM-over-IP solution, enables secure, non-blocking BIOS-level access and control of a single server via a dedicated IP address. With switchless, any-to-any connectivity, users can manage multiple appliances, connected servers and other IT equipment from one IP address, allowing administrators to troubleshoot, perform upgrades and transfer files to remote servers, as well as turn on/off and recycle any server's power. The switch features absolute mouse synchronization and virtual media to give users the ability to transfer files for patches and upgrades from any location. The solution supports Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris platforms, and can be powered by power-over-Ethernet, a separate power adapter or both. - Raritan Computer
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Processor - Find The Right KVM Setup
BEST TIP: Choose Next-Generation KVM-Over-IP Technology
"Many people that I talk to have multiple small 4- and 8-port KVM switches that they have purchased over the years from different manufacturers, resulting in a KVM hodgepodge," explains Richard Dominach, senior project manager at Raritan (732/764-8886; http://www.raritan.com/). These older types of setups may work when everything is going smoothly, but if a server crashes or is hung up after hours, you may discover to your dismay that the only way to fix the problem requires a trip to your data center.
Therefore, Dominach recommends using KVM-over-IP switches that provide both at-the-rack and remote IP access. "These switches have user interfaces that deliver a consistent user experience whether working remotely or at the rack, making it easy to navigate," he says.
KVM-over-IP technology also provides virtual media support, which is useful for installing software, transferring files, and performing diagnostics on a remote sever. "They enable you to power-cycle remote servers without having to take a trip to the data center," Dominach says. "With KVM-over-IP switches, you can access servers from your desktop, while in a meeting, at home, and when traveling, helping to save time and improve uptime."
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Processor - Reach Out To Remote Systems
Raritan Dominion KSX II Offers New Management Features In A Streamlined Package
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