Sponsored: Designing Data Center Remote Power Management and Monitoring

The idea is very simple – how do you manage and optimize your power requirements if you can’t see the metrics? As we know, data center environments and infrastructure services will only continue to evolve and expand. Business needs are the drivers for technological innovation and cloud computing is certainly helping push organizations forward. As more IT environments see the benefits of the hybrid data center model, administrators will need to learn how to properly size, manage, and deploy across IT platforms.

Already, new data center services are pushing the capacity of technologies like cloud computing to the next level. In fact, a 2015 NRDC report indicates that data center electricity consumption is projected to increase to roughly 140 billion kilowatt-hours annually by 2020. This is the equivalent annual output of 50 power plants, costing U.S. businesses $13 billion annually in electricity bills. This is why data center operations are more critical than ever before. And, what makes a data center run efficiently and resiliently? Rack and Power Intelligence.

Data center operations rely more and more on data. Data center managers need to be able to oversee everything that happens in the white space, and they use intelligent rack solutions to provide the maximum amount of insight to assist their decision-making process, especially regarding power consumption inside the rack.

This means administrators must examine cost and availability as critical design factors. Businesses are asking managers to ensure uptime, availability, and intelligent power management at all times, even as they reduce the cost of operating the equipment. These are the keys to a successful IT operation as it has become critical to rely on intelligent PDU hardware to achieve success.

Very recently, Server Technology added POPS (Per Outlet Power Sensing) to its industry leading and award winning HDOT PRO2 Alternating Phase Rack PDUs. This product expands upon the most innovative power product on the market, with solutions for density, capacity planning and uptime in the modern data center. But, the technology doesn’t stop there. It also directly integrates with monitoring and management solutions:

ServerTech has many success stories to share, but let’s focus on one case study that illustrates PDU intelligence with next-generation power management:

Adding the environmental probes offered by Server Technology to his cabinets enables Joseph to see what the temperature and humidity of his datacenter look like at a granular, rack by rack level, just as he can with his power. And getting data from the probes doesn’t cost Joseph any additional Ethernet ports – the probes plug directly into his power strips.

Change is inevitable, and data centers should be designed with this reality in mind. Companies that cannot shift with the times or trends because of antiquated technology and infrastructure lose business to more agile competitors.

Power management solutions play a fundamental role in implementing more versatile data centers that can quickly evolve to address the demands and challenges of the future. As in the case study example, the organization was able to make intelligent decisions around their power requirements both in the present and for the near future. This level of power and data center integration not only impacts operations, but also directly improves the business process. A healthy data center enables a healthy and competitive business. Powerful PDU designs, when coupled with power management solutions, help organizations control their assets and identify where there are growing power requirements.

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