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Dorothy Ochs
February 15, 2012
Stop by our booth at DCD Atlanta to check out our Smart-Rack Management Solution. It contains intelligent rack PDUs, environment sensors (temperature, humidity, air pressure, airflow, electronic asset tracking, energy management, and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software.
We have a limited number of complimentary passes for end users. If you are interested, please contact marketing@raritan.com.
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/conferences/2012/atlanta-2012
Paula Alves
February 9, 2012
Businesses that use kiosks such as ATMs to serve their customers have many unique support and maintenance challenges. ATMs are generally deployed at multiple locations, and across many geographical areas. Responsive and on-site support is often difficult. To ensure 24/7 secure access, energy, environmental, visual, and security controls are necessary. Remote support and management become critical to ATM operation and ROI.
Raritan’s Remote Server Management solution enables businesses to efficiently and reliably manage kiosks, from anywhere. Using remote BIOS-level access and locally mounting of drives and media, IT professionals can effectively diagnose, power cycle, and restore operations. These remote capabilities reduce travel time and operations cost.
Environmental sensor monitoring, such as temperature, humidity and airflow, ensures reliability. When a problem is identified or the need to conserve emergency power arises, load shedding and power cycling can also be performed remotely.
For more information on how Raritan’s Remote Server Management solution can help your business contact your authorized Raritan representative or see our website at: https://www.raritan.com/resources/application-briefs/application-brief-remote-server-management-for-kiosks.pdf
Richard Dominach
January 5, 2012
A new Dominion KX II model is now available - the Dominion KX2-808. The DKX2-808 enables 8 simultaneous remote/IP connections to 8 servers or PC’s. The DKX2-808 is unique among the KX II models since it provides “non-blocked” access, i.e. users can always connect to a server/PC; they are never blocked by another user. While most other KVM-over-IP switches provide some level of blocking in exchange for lower costs, the DKX2-808 features non-blocked access which is required for many situations.
The DKX2-808 ideally suited for many types of use cases. For example, a customer may have “critical servers” that must always be remotely accessible. For example, in a real-time application, say an operations center or control center, an operator may require non-blocked access to a group of servers. Many broadcast type environments also have this requirement where the user must always have access to critical servers. For development or test labs, there may also be critical servers used by a large number of people.
In other cases, the user - possibly an IT administrator or developer - may require simultaneous access to multiple servers at once. With the DKX2-808, they can have this access without affecting the productivity of other users that may be blocked from accessing other servers.
Access to blade servers is another situation ideally suited to non-blocked access. A customer can connect 8 blade server chassis to the DKX2-808 and each blade server chassis can always be remotely accessible. This prevents a user from not being able to access up to 20 individual blade servers.
Similar to this scenario is the tiering or cascading of KVM switches. In this common use case, the customer connects up to 8 other KVM switches to the DKX2-808. Since these KVM switches provide access up to 16, 32 or even 64 servers, blocking is not acceptable.
Similarly, many customers IP-enable their Raritan Paragon II switches by connecting them to a Dominion KX II. Again, since a Paragon switch can be connected to up to 64 servers, and losing access to that many servers is not desirable, the DKX2-808 is ideally suited for this application.
For customers requiring non-blocked access to a large number of servers, for example a customer wanting 64x64 or even 100x100 access, multiple DKX2-808 switches can be used together with Raritan’s CommandCenter Secure Gateway such that a large group of users can have immediate access to each and every server.
So as you can see the DKX2-808 is uniquely qualified for many common situations providing the non-blocked access required.
For more information on the Dominion KX2-808 and the other KX II models, contact your authorized Raritan representative or our website at: https://www.raritan.com/products/kvm-over-ip/dominion-kx-ii/
December 1, 2011
There’s no secret that the majority of data center incidents are caused by human error. This can result in: poor capacity planning, manual audits, slow business process and overall operational inefficiencies.
Join our presentation at 12:30 p.m. and learn how automation of your data center assets is simpler than you think but can help you avoid costly errors and provide huge cost savings.
To register visit http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/conferences/2011/toronto-2011.
Visit the Raritan Booth at DCD Toronto on December 12 to learn more
Greg More
November 23, 2011
Dear Data Center Manager,
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the USA. I’m finishing up this blog before heading to the grocery store to pick up the few things I forgot to purchase earlier in the week. How did I manage to forget mushrooms for the gravy?
The global economy is bad, many people are out of work, those fortunate enough to have work are stretched thin trying to get everything done and there is more than enough conflict in the world. But despite all that there are many things for which we can be thankful.
Those of us in the IT world have a lot to be thankful for. Data centers are being upgraded. Despite economic problems IT spending has stayed strong for 2011. There is growing interest in data center infrastructure management (DCIM) and the promise of DCIM solutions to make large and complex data centers easier and more efficient to manage and operate.