When our founder first started Raritan, KVM was actually a KV switch (no mouse) and DOS, Novell Netware, and 3COM NICS were the hot technologies. We’ve learned a lot since those days and now solving bigger challenges with DCIM software. Now the Chairman of Sunbird Software, Inc., Dr. Ching-i Hsu imparts his entrepreneurial spirit and customer focus to a new mission, to radically simplify data center management with elegant software.
Since 2007, Sunbird products are being used globally by 1,650+ customers across hundreds of thousands of racks, managing millions of assets, and monitoring billions of data points each and every day. From colo to owner operated, medium to large, private to public and non-profit, you can find Sunbird solutions helping customers improve availability, efficiency, and better utilize their data center assets.
We do more than create solutions tailored to each customer. We build lasting relationships by understanding customers' needs, delivering the right solutions, and providing the industry's best support before, during, and after each sale. Our employees strive to delight customers. We’re humbled by our customer’s willingness to become references and promoters.
Sunbird is the product of a commitment to create superior products that resolve real business needs. As an early player in the DCIM market, we've grown into an international industry leader because we listen. Through user groups and deep customer interactions, Sunbird delivers software that just works. We pride ourselves on creating the highest quality products with unwavering support to the people who use them.
"dcTrack helps bring order to the complex maze of data center infrastructures. When you have a dynamic and complex environment with many moving parts and interdependencies, you look for solutions to help make it easier to manage. Sunbird's dcTrack does that by providing us with an easy way to get accurate information on our infrastructures. Because dcTrack covers the entire lifecycle of an...
"With dcTrack we have an up-to-minute picture of capacities in all our data centers in terms of power, space, networking and cooling. As a result, we are able to track our data center capacity more accurately and assess our infrastructure needs for the future. Before we deployed dcTrack, it would mean a trip out onto the data center floor to confirm or deny that a server is in a certain...
"We use Power IQ to generate monthly energy-trend reports that provide customers with actual usage levels by server and IT device….it enables us to provide our customers the ability to run their own reports and to securely power cycle their equipment via a Web interface. Our customers [are] able to take a more active role in managing their servers and their energy utilization."
"There is a need to increase efficiency through technology...data center infrastructure management tools like dcTrack help you with power management, capacity planning and change management. System monitoring tools help you track the health of the network."
"The largest improvement that I see is being able to monitor power usage in our lab and making sure that our PDUs don’t get overloaded. We’ve gone through a few retirement phases and we can track that with the graphs in PIQ — we see the power usage going down. Being able to see the temperature throughout our lab is also pivotal."
