With business growing — and the completion recently of several company acquisitions — the firm made the decision to expand its data center operations to a Tier III colocation (colo) facility.
The data center team took the opportunity to exam its cabinet configurations and power distribution strategy, and to introduce new efficiency tools to both data centers.
Choice Hotels International, one of the largest lodging companies in the word, moves its global reservation system to a 'lights-out' colocation center and uses Raritan iPDUs, environmental sensors, DCIM, and KVM-over-IP to monitor mission critical services and manage its servers and data center infrastructure.
More than 5,000 German pharmacies depend on LAUER-FISCHER GmbH's managed and online services. 100+ servers, networking switches and routers form its IT infrastructure, plus an additional 30 servers for developing and testing new solutions. LAUER-FISCHER chose Raritan Paragon II KVM switches and user stations to help manage their entire infrastructure.
Miniatur Wunderland is one of Germany's most popular attractions, a panorama of miniature European and American destinations, complete with working trains, cars, trucks, fire engines, ships and alpine lifts. The entire exhibit and all its moving parts are controlled by Windows® and Linux® computers and servers, and now, Raritan Paragon II KVM Switches.
Greater Media is the parent company of 23 AM and FM radio stations that broadcast over Boston, Charlotte, Detroit, Philadelphia and New Jersey airways. The company was looking for new ways to allow radio talent to record from different locations, seeking better ways to support high-availability service objectives and had concerns that internal equipment noise was disrupting broadcast audio quality. After experiencing dissatisfaction with products from other vendors, Greater Media reached out to Raritan and utilized their KVM solutions to increase efficiency, uptime and improve the quality of their operations.
EPAM Systems, one of the largest developers of custom project software and one of the leading players in the field of IT consulting in central and eastern Europe, needed to ensure prompt, secure and reliable access to servers in its data center with the ability to remotely install software from connected drives and media. See how they accomplished this – and more – with the help of Raritan’s KVM-over-IP solution.
Experian’s £30-million development project, headlined by a new state-of-the-art data center, featured Raritan’s Dominion KX KVM-over-IP and Dominion SX Serial Console switches to manage its Wintel and UNIX infrastructure. Raritan’s CommandCenter Secure Gateway allowed Experian to centrally control hundreds of devices, with a single sign-on and customized views.
With more than 3,200 employees, Investment Firm Morgan Keegan serves the diverse financial needs of individual investors, corporate and institutional clients. The company needed a more responsive way to manage its more than 400 branch offices in the U.S. The IT department wanted a solution that would provide reliable and secure access to branch office servers anytime.
The Dutch National Lottery won a 25% increase in server rack space after deploying Dominion KX KVM-over-IP switch and CommandCenter Secure Gateway. By giving all their admins Web-based access, they also eliminated waits for consoles and unwanted overtime.
Duane Morris squeezed every possible benefit out of its new data center by installing Dominion KX KVM-over-IP, Paragon II Cat5 KVM, and CommandCenter Secure Gateway. Results: secure, lights-out operation, anytime, anywhere access with a single-sign on, and an analog KVM backup that allowed IT staff to work on servers even during scheduled network outages.