Raritan DC Power Mgmt Solution Helps Enterprises Reduce Power Usage By 50%

Raritan, innovator of power management, infrastructure management, KVM and serial solutions for datacentres of all sizes, has provided its datacentre Power Management Solution to large enterprises and helping them achieve high datacentre reliability with up to 50% reduction in their power usage and reduce and reduce carbon footprint. Raritan’s datacentre 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 datacentres without compromising on the uptime.

“Today’s datacentres are dynamic, have higher power densities, and are more complex with many inter dependencies,” said Sanjay Motwani, Sales Director - India & SEA at Raritan India. “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 datacentre 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 offer accurate 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 centralised power monitoring, along with features like agentless, graceful OS shutdown, outlet control and thermal and energy analytics to help you manage power usage, capacity and costs by providing kWh per rack usage, energy costs per customer, department or application, line loads for balancing capacities, rack inlet temperatures and even carbon footprint.

Large enterprises like AOL are taking advantage of Raritan’s Power IQ’s capability to centrally manage PDUs. 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.