The Raritan Blog

Raritan Team Walks for Life

August 21, 2012

It’s been an incredibly busy year at Raritan with product advances and growing sales. Amidst the chaos, the team found time to hold its first March for Babies walk to raise money for the March of Dimes foundation.

March of Dimes, whose slogan is “Marching together for stronger, healthier babies”, is an organization that raises money to support programs and research that help moms have healthy pregnancies, and therefore, healthy babies. The March for Babies program has been running since 1970 and has raised over $2 billion for the support of moms and babies nationwide.

An impressive 55 Raritan walkers raised over $4,000 in support of the March for Babies campaign to help families in their community produce healthy and happy babies. This Raritan team traded in their dedication to the office for helping families who truly needed it.

Raritan Employees Turned Home Builders for Charity

August 20, 2012

Power Monitoring.

Power management.

Power tools.

What do these 3 have in common? Raritan employees! On a normal workday, Raritan makes software that helps make life easier for data center managers but every now and then they pick up power tools to help those who need a place to call home.

Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit volunteer organization that builds and rehabilitates homes for families in need of shelter. Habitat homes are given to these families in return for hours of their own labor and monthly mortgage payments financed by donations and affordable loans.

Raritan employees took time away from designing power monitoring and management software to hold both a bake sale and a car wash to collect donations for Habitat for Humanity. Each employee that participated donated their time and money to the foundation to help those less fortunate.

While this team’s usual 9-5 work day consists of crossing off items on to do lists and participating in meetings, I’m sure they would say that devoting a rainy day to building roofs over people’s heads is more rewarding.

Attention Northeast consultants, IT and Facilities folks!!! Join us at Boston F1 on August 30th to learn about data center technologies and race!

Dorothy Ochs
August 6, 2012

Have you ever wished you were racing cars like Dale Earnhardt Jr., Danica Patrick, Michael Schumacher or Lewis Hamilton instead of racing around a data center? Here is your chance and you’ll earn BICSI CEC’s.

Come as our guest for breakfast, a few presentations on the latest data center technologies and lunch. Then experience real head-to-head racing at F1 Boston’s indoor karting. You’ll drive high-performance karts capable of 45 mph which seems extremely fast as you try to navigate a track designed by professional racers to maximize the challenge for both experienced and novice drivers.

Join Active Power, E-Systems Group, OptiCool, Raritan and Xirrus to learn about:

Design Efficiency and Integration at the Cabinet
Intelligent rack PDUs
415V Design
High performance wireless networks
Advance cooling solutions
How to get utility funding from National Grid

Then see if you have what it takes to rack up fast lap times and pass other racers on the track.

Racing is optional.

IT and Lab Remote Access and Control: KVM-over-IP or Software Access?

Paula Alves
August 1, 2012

As an IT administrator, Lab or Network Manager, you often need quick access to multiple computer systems at once for reconfiguration, rebooting, and troubleshooting. Using multiple monitors, keyboards, and mice to access these multi-vendor servers can be inefficient and ineffective.

There are multiple tools to make your job a bit easier. Options include Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Virtual Network Computing (VNC), and KVM-over-IP, as well as many others.

So how do you choose?

View our new video to learn why there really isn’t a choice.

With Raritan’s Dominion KVM-over-IP and CommandCenter Secure Gateway, you can have full-featured, secure, remote access from wherever you are. Even if the server is down!

Learn more about Raritan’s secure offering at https://www.raritan.com/secure-alternative-to-RDP-and-VNC