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Lunch & Learn with JEM Tech Group

Dorothy Ochs
January 11, 2013

You’re invited to JEM Tech Group’s Lunch and Learn where you’ll get great information about data center energy monitoring and management.

When:
Thursday, February 7, 2013
10:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Where:
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
(Lyon Meadows Conference Center)
53200 Grand River
New Hudson, MI 48165
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1. Are you tasked to reduce your energy bill with an existing data center?
2. Are you faced with rising energy costs and increased power load due to today’s higher density servers?

If you answered “yes” to either question, you are not alone and should RSVP to this Lunch & Learn.

In this seminar, you will learn how taking a green approach to maximizing data center efficiency will help you implement cost cutting measures, better manage and control your equipment, maximize your ROI and potentially earn rebates from your local energy company.

Your colleagues are welcome to join. The time spent will be beneficial to your IT and Facilities teams alike.

10:30 - 11:15
Registration & Networking

11:15 - 12:15
Controlling your Data Center Power Consumption
Manage power usage more effectively, with data gathering that can help you identify and gain efficiencies and interval sampling for trending, analysis and reporting over time. Presented by Quicken Loans and Raritan.

12:15 - 1:00
Lunch Buffet

1:00 - 1:45
Monitor and Manage your global IT Infrastructure
Decisions are easier to make if the right data is available through a vendor neutral solution.
Presented by Domino’s Pizza and Geist.

1:45 - 2:00
Blue Cross Blue Shield Tour of their Cold Aisle Containment Installation.
RSVP to the event by February 4th.
To register, contact Lori Obney at
(586) 783-3400 or at marketing@raritan.com

Sponsored by Raritan and Geist

DCD Dallas on December 11th - Limited Number of Complimentary Passes Available

Dorothy Ochs
November 30, 2012

Raritan has a limited number of free passes for end users only.  Contact us to take advantage of this offer.  And don’t forget to stop by our booth for your chance to win an iPad and see our smart rack.  Raritan’s smart-rack management solution consisting of:

- A rack controller and/or intelligent rack PDUs with sophisticated controller boards which support power metering and control at various levels
- Environment sensors such as temperature, humidity, air pressure, and airflow
- Other sensors such as contact closure and webcam
- Electronic asset tracking
- KVM for remote management of devices
- Energy management and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software

Hope you can join us in Dallas!  For more information about DCD Dallas, visit http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/conferences/2012/dallas-2012.

Raritan will be unveiling an industry-first DCIM solution at next week's Gartner Data Center Conference

Dorothy Ochs
November 27, 2012

We are inviting you to see our new solution.  Stop by Raritan’s booth #711 to learn how to simplify and reduce the cost of instrumenting your data center for DCIM.  Intelligent PDUs and environmental and electronic asset sensors now can be added to racks without investing the time and cost associated with running wired Ethernet connections.

We will also be showing how our DCIM solutions can help you monitor energy, capacity, assets, and the overall health of your data center.

Visit gartner.com/us/datacenter to register now with priority code DCSP5 and receive a special $300 discount.

We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas!

Common Pain Points in Data Center Infrastructure Management

November 20, 2012

By - Khaled Nassoura, PE, General Manager, DCIM Software of Raritan

As we meet with companies around the world - from small, to midsize, to large enterprises - we’re struck by the similarities of the difficulties they share in managing their data centers.

If we had to pick one, over-arching description of the common problem, it’s this:

Knowing the physical, logical relationships that tie all their data center assets together as well as how these assets are tied to the infrastructure that supports them.

Here’s an example. Let’s say you would like to know the impact an infrastructure element such as a circuit breaker or a network switch port may have, upstream, on the servers that are connected to it. Furthermore, you’d like to know what applications are running on these servers and what departments or business units are being supported by these applications. These are the questions that become very difficult to answer “on the fly” when you have an urgent need to understand those dependency mappings.

Many of these data centers especially in the financial sector simply cannot afford to have any downtime. They must resolve any problems very quickly. This requires complete visibility into their systems and the infrastructure that supports their systems. For a data center manager, understanding the relationships between the assets and the infrastructure – dependency mapping – is extremely important.

A Dynamic View of Your Data Center’s Capacity

A very important topic in data centers today is capacity management and capacity planning.

Capacity planning is a simple as arithmetic. It is the total provisioned infrastructure minus the consumed resources and infrastructure. The total provisioned infrastructure in the data center is usually very static can be documented relatively easily by the architects and engineers who designed and built your data center. That’s the total size of your data center – how much power you have available; how many network switches and ports you have; how many power strips you have; how much power you have available to every rack; all of this is static information.

But data centers are never static

What’s very difficult to get a handle on is the number of resources that are in use at any point in time. That is a very dynamic set of information, and you can only get a handle on it if you have a system that can look at your data center from a holistic point of view and keep track of what goes in and out, what resources are in use, what’s connected and what’s disconnected.

So for data center managers to know the available data center capacity at any point in time, they must know the total provisioned infrastructure, which is relatively static, minus what’s in use at any point in time, which is very dynamic.

Without a DCIM solution, it’s impossible to get an immediate handle on these dynamic changes in the data center. Data center mangers don’t have the tools to easily track network and power connectivity. And if they don’t track the connectivity that means they don’t track those infrastructure resources that are in use at any point in time. Manual tools such as spreadsheets and Visio cannot keep track of this very dynamic set of information. Even data center management software tools that do not incorporate good connectivity management practices do not enable data center managers to accurately calculate their data centers’ capacity.

Raritan can help. Raritan’s DCIM solution is unlike any other and offers:

1. Complete, all-in-one software solution
2. Asset, connectivity, capacity, and change management
3. Power, energy, and environment management

Click here to learn more.

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Free passes available for end users - November 27th DCD Toronto

Dorothy Ochs
November 20, 2012

End users are invited to attend the upcoming DatacenterDynamics Toronto show on November 27th. Stop by our booth to see our latest solutions and enter a raffle drawing for a new iPad. Simply contact us if you would like a free pass. \

For more information, visit http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/conferences/2012/toronto-2012.

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