Raritan helps reducing datacenter energy consumption

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Raritan's datacenter power management solution are helping large enterprises achieve high datacenter reliability with up to 50 percent reduction in their power usage and reduce the carbon footprint.

Sanjay Motwani, sales director - India and SEA at Raritan India said, "Today's datacenters are dynamic, have higher power densities, and are more complex with many inter dependencies. Yet managers are asked to maintain uptime while more efficiently using existing resources of power, cooling, infrastructure and people. With the right DCIM solutions this objective is obtainable."

To operate an enterprise level infrastructure more efficiently, while reducing costs and increasing uptime, CIOs and IT Managers need more information and control. Raritan's power management solution offers the features and functionality to operate your data center or IT lab more intelligently. Raritan's solution consists of two major components: Raritan's intelligent rack PDUs (iPDUs) and Raritan power management software.

The rack PDUs and inline meters offeraccurate power information with billing-grade, real-time kWh data, as well as current, voltage, active power and apparent power, PX-3000TM inline meters add intelligence to existing PDUs or stand-alone IT equipment. They're perfectly suited for measuring power usage and finding stranded power in the racks. They also come in the industry's widest selection and configurations, so one can choose the model that perfectly meets the needs.

Raritan's Power IQ energy management software provides easy-to-use, real-time, accurate energy information. It offers vendor-agnostic centralized power monitoring, along with features like agentless, graceful OS shutdown, outlet control and thermal and energy analytics to help enterprises manage power usage, capacity and costs by providing kWh per rack usage.

Firmware and configuration management and PX health monitoring for all their PDU units can be done with Power IQ. Mass firmware upgrades for all PX devices, for example, can be performed through a single point of access.

Raritan's datacenter Power Management Solution has enabled enterprises such as Ebay, British Airways and AOL amongst many others to reduce their operating cost and provided extremely reliable, sustainable and energy-efficient datacenters without compromising on the uptime.