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NetworkWorld Asia recently awarded Sunbird their Readers' Choice Product Excellence Award 2013 for Data Center Capacity Planning and Services. These awards are given to leading vendors for the innovative technologies and solutions they provide to Asia businesses. Awards are presented based on votes from the readers of NetworkWorld Asia magazine, and the Networks Asia, Security Asia and Storage Asia websites.
As the Data Center Capacity Planning and Services winner, Sunbird was recognized for its DCIM solution that provides the capability to view Data Center assets from the lowest level in the power chain to the highest level. This visualization provides Data Center Managers with the ab...
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Preparing to issue a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) bid? Do you know what you actually need or what your requirements are? There are many choices of vendors and solutions, each having a slightly different twist. When issuing your bid, Request for Quote (RFQ), or Request for Proposal (RFP) describe your specific problems and desired outcome to potential vendors and challenge them to show how you can achieve objectives with their product and support.
Provide the bid to two or at most three DCIM products/vendors thoroughly with respect to your “must have” requirements. Any more, your evaluations might dilute the resources and the process. Ensure that your bid includes both func...
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Data centers have seen an explosion of enterprise software, mobile applications, and data storage over the past five years. So it should come as no surprise that the cost of data center downtime has risen dramatically alongside the bevy of interconnected devices and mission critical systems that have inundated facilities nationwide.
According to a recent Emerson Network Power report, 91% of U.S. data centers have experienced an unplanned outage in the past two years, with data centers losing an average of $690,204 per outage. Additionally, unplanned data center outages over the past year alone have cost 67 of the report participants a collective loss of over $46.2 million dollars.
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While datacenters are continuing to evolve, the list of pain points around managing the necessary resources and changes to datacenter assets continues to grow. But how do you decide whether Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) is the right choice for you, and if so, whether a specific solution can meet your needs?
Sunbird’s new website, sunbirdDCIM.com, makes learning about DCIM, the components to consider when selecting a DCIM provider, the benefits from a DCIM and more importantly, how to get started easy. We know that datacenter managers have many choices in how to best approach infrastructure management, and at raritanDCIM.com, visitors can learn why our customers believe that...
Preparing to issue a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) bid? Do you know what you actually need or what your requirements are? There are many choices of vendors and solutions, each having a slightly different twist. When issuing your bid, Request for Quote (RFQ), or Request for Proposal (RFP) describe your specific problems and desired outcome to potential vendors and challenge them to show how you can achieve objectives with their product and support. Provide the bid to two or at most three DCIM products/vendors thoroughly with respect to your “must have” requirements. Any more, your evaluations might dilute the resources and the process. Ensure that your bid includes both func...