The Raritan Blog

Visit Raritan at the Joint Warfighting Conference on May 15-17 in Virginia Beach

Dorothy Ochs
May 11, 2012

See how we can help:

- Reduce energy use and comply with Executive Order 13514

- Easily manage agency consolidation plans by tracking all of the assets in your data centers

- Provide you with secure remote access to server management

EVENT DETAILS

- What: Joint Warfighting Conference

- When: May 15-17, 2012

- Where: Virginia Beach Convention Center

How to Rapidly Configure Intelligent Rack PDUs

Henry Hsu
May 10, 2012

In the course of my consulting engagements with many enterprise clients, over the past few years, I have personally configured thousands and thousands of intelligent power strips for network deployment. Since “site services technician” is not part of my job description, you might wonder if perhaps I just have too much free time.

Quite the contrary. Instead, Raritan created a means to configure intelligent power strips (set the IP address, change time settings, set unique name, turn on SNMP, etc.)—in real-world environments—very rapidly and very easily. With minimal effort, a single person can configure hundreds of power strips in a single afternoon. The technique is unique and is likely surprising to most clients, so I’d like to take the time in this post to explain its methodology and rationale.

Many of our clients deploy significant quantities of intelligent power strips, in order to enable better energy management and capacity planning. Thus, Raritan is uniquely motivated to help deploy them quickly, because the value of the data provided by intelligent power strips can only be appreciated when the power strips are network-reachable. It pains me to visit facilities that have purchased networked power strips (of any brand), where the data center operators have not actually deployed their connectivity features due to reluctance to expend the tedious effort required to network them. These facilities are missing the tremendous business and operational value that metered PDUs deliver.

Webinar - The "M" in DCIM: Management

Dorothy Ochs
April 13, 2012

As IT and telecom infrastructures have become increasingly more dynamic and power densities continue to rise, traditional cooling in a raised floor environment has become increasingly difficult to apply efficiently. Join infrastructure management specialists AdaptivCOOL and Raritan in this informative webinar on how to manage data center Power & Cooling resources.

This free informative webinar will give you tips on:

-The importance of knowing your data center’s capacity

-What tools to use in order to gain visibility into your data center’s capabilities

-What cooling & power management means to your data center

-How managing cooling & power can transform your data center

Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and Government Data Center Consolidation

Anthony Bonaventura
April 13, 2012

Over the past fifteen years or so the Federal government has nearly quadrupled the number of data centers it operates. These centers have been using less than half of their compute power despite the additional costs for infrastructure, real estate and energy which have rapidly become more expensive and unsustainable.

The Federal Data Center Consolidation’s goal is to shut down data centers the government does not need and consolidate and optimize the ones that remain to be more efficient by reducing the overall energy and real estate footprint of government data centers. This initiative also includes increasing the IT security in these data centers given the almost daily reports of cyber-attacks we hear about, let alone the ones we don’t.

Remote Management of a “Cloud” Infrastructure

Paula Alves
April 9, 2012

Over the past few years, economic uncertainty and the subsequent impact on businesses have led many IT organizations down a cost reduction path. to virtualization of their IT infrastructure, and movement to the “cloud.” In fact, according to Gartner, in Cloud Computing: Economic, Financial and Service Impact on IT Planning Assumptions, “cloud” adoption is forecasted to grow from 3.5% of the IT marketplace to 5.9% in 2015.

To ensure the IT infrastructure remains available before an organization jumps on the “cloud” bandwagon, it is important to identify the tools that will be needed to control, manage and secure this new “cloud-based” architecture. With application virtualization and additional access options such as mobile smartphones and tablets – not always owned by the business – how do you ensure secure access to your network? The costs to rip and replace existing infrastructures can be exorbitant.

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