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Sunbird will be at Cloud Computing World Expo on March 20th- 21st held at the Porte de Versailles- Paris, France. Stop by Booth C13 for a demonstration of our award-winning Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution.
You don’t want to miss this opportunity to network with like-minded professionals, get real-world tips from DCIM experts, and explore how Sunbird can help you simplify your data center management. See for yourself how easy power, network, and cable management can be with key features like:
· 3D data center health map with real-time power data.
· Ability to visually build data circuits, including structured cabling, between any combination of devic...
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Sunbird will be at DCW Global on March 19th-22nd held at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Stop by Booth 719 for a demonstration of our award-winning Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution.
You don’t want to miss this opportunity to network with like-minded professionals, get real-world tips from DCIM experts, and explore how Sunbird can help you simplify your data center management. See for yourself how easy power, network, and cable management can be with key features like:
· 3D data center health map with real-time power data.
· Ability to visually build data circuits, including structured cabling, between any combination of devices, ne...
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Modern data center managers are constantly being asked to do more with less, and energy efficiency is no exception. Data center teams are facing increasing for IT resource capacity to store and process the data and applications required for big data, IoT, AI, and other transformative technologies. As a result, modern data center environments are more distributed and complex than ever before.
Maintaining a safe environment for their intelligent PDUs, UPSs, and other hardware equipment while also keeping costs low is a continuous struggle for today’s data center managers. Data Center Infrastructure Management (software) software can be a critical tool in helping you meet these objectives. Data...
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Sunbird’s Models Library release for March is now available: Version 3.114. Download and update to Version 3.114 to get all the most recent model data!
Sunbird’s Models Library simplifies your data center asset management. The library includes detailed information—such as U space, dimensions, weight, power ports, and data ports—for over 30,000 models across over 450 manufacturers. Updating the Models Library after you have implemented Sunbird’s DCIM software helps to ensure that you are using the most accurate and up-to-date model information. This information also ensures that your data center change management tickets and reservations are error free.
Can’t find a specific make and model? C...
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Sunbird will be at DCW London on March 12th-13th held at the ExCel, London. Stop by Booth D757 for a demonstration of our award-winning Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution.
You don’t want to miss this opportunity to network with like-minded professionals, get real-world tips from DCIM experts, and explore how Sunbird can help you simplify your data center management. See for yourself how easy power, network, and cable management can be with key features like:
· 3D data center health map with real-time power data.
· Ability to visually build data circuits, including structured cabling, between any combination of devices, network equipment, and patch pane...
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New applications driven by AI and Machine Learning are pushing the limits of the internet as we know it. By moving data centers and compute closer to the edge or more regional, we are making the distance shorter between the data and the end user. Edge data centers are used to speed up web page downloads, stream content, and support Internet of Things (IoT) networks. Edge data centers can also "go green" and save energy which could have big implications for the environment as well as the cost to maintain/operate data centers at the edge.
To help data center professionals better understand what edge data centers are, where they are used, and what the benefits are, we've developed a new infogra...
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We’re proud to announce with the general availability of dcTrack® 6.3, the latest version of Sunbird’s DCIM Operations software. This release includes a ServiceNow and BMC Remedy CMDB connector for greater automation via integration, dashboard and item page layout personalization for greater ease of use, hot-standby high availability, and more.
dcTrack 6.3 Availability
This dcTrack 6.3 update is available worldwide on a cabinet/month subscription or perpetual license basis to all customers with valid maintenance contracts. Simply download the update file from Sunbird’s support portal to upgrade today.
What’s New in dcTrack 6.3
The following features are new or enhanced in dcTrack 6.3 for...
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Data center cable management is often considered a problem reserved for network engineering teams, but bad cable design can wreak havoc across your entire enterprise. “Spaghetti” cabinets and other symptoms of ill-considered cabling make it more difficult to complete equipment installations, troubleshooting, and maintenance. They can create an unsafe operating environment for your equipment by restricting airflow to racks, trapping dust, keeping cables warm, and making it impossible to understand at a glance how your devices are connected. In relation to the business, bad cable management practices can even hinder modern data center environments from adapting to new technologies like IoT and...
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Note: This guest blog was provided by Raritan.
Monitoring a data center shouldn't require continuous onsite visits or numerous web interfaces that slow down response times and complicate data analysis. In fact, effectively monitoring a data center is a task that can and should be optimized by leveraging best in class environment sensors and DCIM software solutions. Fortunately for data centers across the globe, Raritan has developed award winning SmartSensors that provide the insights that data managers need to understand real time environment data and analyze performance trends.
What is a SmartSensor?
At its core, SmartSensor is Raritan's environmental monitoring platform. It has been str...
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Sunbird’s Models Library release for February is now available: Version 3.113. Download and update to Version 3.113 to get all the most recent model data!
Sunbird’s Models Library simplifies your data center asset management. The library includes detailed information—such as U space, dimensions, weight, power ports, and data ports—for over 30,000 models across over 450 manufacturers. Updating the Models Library after you have implemented Sunbird’s DCIM software helps to ensure that you are using the most accurate and up-to-date model information. This information also ensures that your data center change management tickets and reservations are error free.
Can’t find a specific make and model...
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Agility and adaptability are key elements in an organization’s evolution toward digital business. Distinctions are beginning to emerge between organizations with strategic versus tactical IT departments. In the same vein, 451 Research's most recent Voice of the Enterprise Digital Pulse: Vendor Evaluations Survey 2018 found that organizations whose major IT goals for 2019 are business-oriented rather than purely IT-focused look quite different on several key vectors, including IT execution environments, IT decisionmakers, impact of transformational technologies and vendor selection criteria.
Business IT alignment is a prerequisite for successful digital transformation, but organizations strug...
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In 2018, data center managers had to contend with a number of disruptive trends and technologies that changed the way they operate and monitor their environments. In 2019, several of last year’s DCIM trends are likely to mature and further disrupt traditional data center management practices. For data center managers who are participating in these trends and doing everything right—including using Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software in your organization—now is an exciting time to be in data center management.
However, even if current data center trends aren’t impacting the way you manage your data center, understanding what these trends are and why they might be relevant to...
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In July, TSB, the UK bank owned by Sabadell of Spain, announced its half-year results. The bank swung from a profit of £108.3m ($142.17m) in the first half of 2017 to a loss of £107m in the same period for 2018. The main cause: a £176m hit caused by a botched IT system upgrade, which from April to June resulted in data corruption, security flaws, cascading failures and tens of thousands of customers experiencing problems with their accounts.
TSB’s problems meant it joined a growing list of big companies that have suffered big, costly public outages or serious IT service problems in the past two years. The causes range from issues with IT systems, network equipment or connections, data power...
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Sunbird will be at 15. Datacenter & Cloud Management on February 7th held at the Prime Tower, Zürich. Stop by our booth for a demonstration of our award-winning Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution by our Key Account Manager, Richard Kunze!
You don’t want to miss this opportunity to network with like-minded professionals, get real-world tips from DCIM experts, and explore how Sunbird can help you simplify your data center management. See for yourself how easy power, network, and cable management can be with key features like:
· 3D data center health map with real-time power data.
· Ability to visually build data circuits, including structured cablin...
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A proof-of-concept (POC) evaluation is one of the most common ways to assess how well a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software solution will work in your environment. A POC gives you the opportunity to use the software to collect data from your own devices so you can determine how well it fits the business and technical needs of your own data center infrastructure team.
However, a POC isn’t just a great way to evaluate a DCIM software product. It’s also an ideal time to investigate how well the DCIM software vendor meets your needs. Here are eight questions to ask your DCIM software vendor during a proof-of-concept evaluation:
How can I see a sample of my data center with a...
Modern data center managers are constantly being asked to do more with less, and energy efficiency is no exception. Data center teams are facing increasing for IT resource capacity to store and process the data and applications required for big data, IoT, AI, and other transformative technologies. As a result, modern data center environments are more distributed and complex than ever before. Maintaining a safe environment for their intelligent PDUs, UPSs, and other hardware equipment while also keeping costs low is a continuous struggle for today’s data center managers. Data Center Infrastructure Management (software) software can be a critical tool in helping you meet these objectives. Data...
Sunbird’s Models Library release for March is now available: Version 3.114. Download and update to Version 3.114 to get all the most recent model data! Sunbird’s Models Library simplifies your data center asset management. The library includes detailed information—such as U space, dimensions, weight, power ports, and data ports—for over 30,000 models across over 450 manufacturers. Updating the Models Library after you have implemented Sunbird’s DCIM software helps to ensure that you are using the most accurate and up-to-date model information. This information also ensures that your data center change management tickets and reservations are error free. Can’t find a specific make and model? C...
New applications driven by AI and Machine Learning are pushing the limits of the internet as we know it. By moving data centers and compute closer to the edge or more regional, we are making the distance shorter between the data and the end user. Edge data centers are used to speed up web page downloads, stream content, and support Internet of Things (IoT) networks. Edge data centers can also "go green" and save energy which could have big implications for the environment as well as the cost to maintain/operate data centers at the edge. To help data center professionals better understand what edge data centers are, where they are used, and what the benefits are, we've developed a new infogra...
We’re proud to announce with the general availability of dcTrack® 6.3, the latest version of Sunbird’s DCIM Operations software. This release includes a ServiceNow and BMC Remedy CMDB connector for greater automation via integration, dashboard and item page layout personalization for greater ease of use, hot-standby high availability, and more. dcTrack 6.3 Availability This dcTrack 6.3 update is available worldwide on a cabinet/month subscription or perpetual license basis to all customers with valid maintenance contracts. Simply download the update file from Sunbird’s support portal to upgrade today. What’s New in dcTrack 6.3 The following features are new or enhanced in dcTrack 6.3 for...
Data center cable management is often considered a problem reserved for network engineering teams, but bad cable design can wreak havoc across your entire enterprise. “Spaghetti” cabinets and other symptoms of ill-considered cabling make it more difficult to complete equipment installations, troubleshooting, and maintenance. They can create an unsafe operating environment for your equipment by restricting airflow to racks, trapping dust, keeping cables warm, and making it impossible to understand at a glance how your devices are connected. In relation to the business, bad cable management practices can even hinder modern data center environments from adapting to new technologies like IoT and...
Note: This guest blog was provided by Raritan. Monitoring a data center shouldn't require continuous onsite visits or numerous web interfaces that slow down response times and complicate data analysis. In fact, effectively monitoring a data center is a task that can and should be optimized by leveraging best in class environment sensors and DCIM software solutions. Fortunately for data centers across the globe, Raritan has developed award winning SmartSensors that provide the insights that data managers need to understand real time environment data and analyze performance trends. What is a SmartSensor? At its core, SmartSensor is Raritan's environmental monitoring platform. It has been str...
Sunbird’s Models Library release for February is now available: Version 3.113. Download and update to Version 3.113 to get all the most recent model data! Sunbird’s Models Library simplifies your data center asset management. The library includes detailed information—such as U space, dimensions, weight, power ports, and data ports—for over 30,000 models across over 450 manufacturers. Updating the Models Library after you have implemented Sunbird’s DCIM software helps to ensure that you are using the most accurate and up-to-date model information. This information also ensures that your data center change management tickets and reservations are error free. Can’t find a specific make and model...
Agility and adaptability are key elements in an organization’s evolution toward digital business. Distinctions are beginning to emerge between organizations with strategic versus tactical IT departments. In the same vein, 451 Research's most recent Voice of the Enterprise Digital Pulse: Vendor Evaluations Survey 2018 found that organizations whose major IT goals for 2019 are business-oriented rather than purely IT-focused look quite different on several key vectors, including IT execution environments, IT decisionmakers, impact of transformational technologies and vendor selection criteria. Business IT alignment is a prerequisite for successful digital transformation, but organizations strug...
In 2018, data center managers had to contend with a number of disruptive trends and technologies that changed the way they operate and monitor their environments. In 2019, several of last year’s DCIM trends are likely to mature and further disrupt traditional data center management practices. For data center managers who are participating in these trends and doing everything right—including using Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software in your organization—now is an exciting time to be in data center management. However, even if current data center trends aren’t impacting the way you manage your data center, understanding what these trends are and why they might be relevant to...
In July, TSB, the UK bank owned by Sabadell of Spain, announced its half-year results. The bank swung from a profit of £108.3m ($142.17m) in the first half of 2017 to a loss of £107m in the same period for 2018. The main cause: a £176m hit caused by a botched IT system upgrade, which from April to June resulted in data corruption, security flaws, cascading failures and tens of thousands of customers experiencing problems with their accounts. TSB’s problems meant it joined a growing list of big companies that have suffered big, costly public outages or serious IT service problems in the past two years. The causes range from issues with IT systems, network equipment or connections, data power...
A proof-of-concept (POC) evaluation is one of the most common ways to assess how well a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software solution will work in your environment. A POC gives you the opportunity to use the software to collect data from your own devices so you can determine how well it fits the business and technical needs of your own data center infrastructure team. However, a POC isn’t just a great way to evaluate a DCIM software product. It’s also an ideal time to investigate how well the DCIM software vendor meets your needs. Here are eight questions to ask your DCIM software vendor during a proof-of-concept evaluation: How can I see a sample of my data center with a...
