Monitoring Efficiently
A period of enormous technological, corporate and legislative change looms for the data center industry. In order to negotiate the challenges presented by new requirements of resource management, reporting and accountability, budgetary constraint and operational flexibility, the monitoring of data center operations needs at the very least to keep pace with these trends. This White Paper uses the results of a survey conducted among a sample of upper-level US data center owners and operators to suggest some principles of ‘best practice’ based on how these owners and operators are approaching monitoring and reporting in their facilities and where they would most like to see improvement.

Power Distribution in Data Centers: STARLINE Track Busway, PX iPDUs and Power IQ



Today’s data center managers are being asked to do more with less: to supply more computing power using less energy in a smaller space, while meeting limited budgets and maintaining mission-critical reliability. This white paper focuses on power distribution and monitoring solutions that are successfully meeting these demands.

Greening IT: Understanding what you know – and don’t know – about power usage in your data center and how to improve your green profile
Managing power is critical. But where do you start? Raritan and PTS Data Center Solutions developed a new white paper that examines the myths and realities of power measurement. Learn what instrumentation helps calculate your data center power efficiency and how to set standards to align with the Green Grid.

Power Monitoring and Environmental Monitoring to Improve Uptime and Capacity Planning
Today, IT and facilities managers are asking, "Am I getting enough power to my blades?" "Are there racks with excess capacity?" and "Am I getting enough cooling to those racks?" This white paper explores how intelligent rack PDUs can address these uptime and capacity planning issues. 

Give Me a Break: Circuit breakers and branch circuit protection for data centers
Average power consumption per server is on the rise. Data centers racks are becoming more densely packed with power-hungry IT equipment. To meet the need for additional power, data center managers must deploy PDUs that handle higher voltages and currents. This white paper examines new rack PDU certification requirements and why data center managers should seriously consider replacing fused rack PDUs with ones that have the latest UL Listed UL 489 circuit breakers.

Data Center Transformations: Simplify data center build outs, consolidations and acquisitions with IT infrastructure management solutions
Implementing an effective Build Out, Consolidation and Acquisition (BOCA) project requires progress through five basic stages: assess, plan, build, stabilize and optimize. This white paper discusses each of the five stages and how the right remote access and IT infrastructure management tools will dramatically improve overall efficiency.

The Distributed Enterprise: Access and management of remote office IT infrastructure
While many IT staffers use remote access software to diagnose and repair branch office problems, additional costs in travel, time, and lost business might be incurred if the network or OS is down. This paper addresses the added value (in terms of uptime and security) of out-of-band access and control tools for branch offices.

The Role of Remote Management in Assuring IT Infrastructure Uptime
Maximizing systems uptime is paramount in most IT organizations. Implementing remote management solutions can provide dramatic savings in operational expenses, along with faster MTTR, increased ROI and overall IT uptime. Learn how you can realize the benefits of remote management solutions in this white paper from EMA.

Service Management Made Simple for Midsize Organizations
Fortune 1000 companies have traditionally led the way in IT best practices. By comparison, midsize businesses (MSBs) tend to be more conservative in their approach. The challenge for them is how to make it simple. Implementing service management at an MSB does not have to be a huge nor expensive undertaking. In this white paper, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) discusses an approach specifically for midtier companies based on Raritan’s CommandCenter® management products – CommandCenter NOC and CommandCenter Secure Gateway.