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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...
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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. Bad cable management practices can even hinder modern data center environments from adapting to new technologies like IoT and big data, provisioning IT re...
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Sunbird will be at HIMSS on February 12th-14th held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. Stop by Booth 4291 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 device...
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Sunbird will be at BICSI Winter on January 21st-23rd held at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, Florida. Stop by Booth 816 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, net...
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By now, you’ve probably heard of the Internet of Things, a concept that refers to the connectedness of devices, units, or “things” to the Internet or each other in ways that allow them to collect and transmit data. The number of connected devices grows significantly each year. By 2020, the installed base of Internet of Things devices is forecast to grow to over 30 billion worldwide.
The massive volume and variety of data generated by IoT devices is already having a significant impact on data center infrastructure as well as the practices that govern how modern data center managers operate and monitor their facilities.
What Is the Impact of IoT on Data Centers Today?
How will data centers a...
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Just three years after moving into our headquarters in Somerset, NJ, Sunbird’s team has grown so fast that we needed to expand the office. We’re excited to share with you pictures of our new expanded office, kitchen, lounge, game room, conference rooms, and reception area. Our success depends on the success of our customers, and we are now more capable than ever of continuing to provide the best second-generation DCIM software.
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Sunbird’s Models Library release for January is now available: Version 3.112. Download and update to Version 3.112 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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451 Research’s Datacenter KnowledgeBase (DCKB) provides quarterly updated figures on various datacenter markets globally. This report delves into the database’s most recent installment to consider the top five US markets based on five different criteria: net operational square feet, net available square feet, CAGR 2013-2017 out of the top 20 US markets, and CAGR 2013-2017 and CAGR 2017-2021 among all US markets. Each of the ranked markets in this report is significant in its own way, but more importantly, comparing these market lists to each other and highlighting incongruencies reveals insight about a market’s status and the direction it’s headed. Providers, investors, and customers can use...
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...
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...
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...
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. Bad cable management practices can even hinder modern data center environments from adapting to new technologies like IoT and big data, provisioning IT re...
Sunbird will be at BICSI Winter on January 21st-23rd held at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, Florida. Stop by Booth 816 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, net...
By now, you’ve probably heard of the Internet of Things, a concept that refers to the connectedness of devices, units, or “things” to the Internet or each other in ways that allow them to collect and transmit data. The number of connected devices grows significantly each year. By 2020, the installed base of Internet of Things devices is forecast to grow to over 30 billion worldwide. The massive volume and variety of data generated by IoT devices is already having a significant impact on data center infrastructure as well as the practices that govern how modern data center managers operate and monitor their facilities. What Is the Impact of IoT on Data Centers Today? How will data centers a...
Just three years after moving into our headquarters in Somerset, NJ, Sunbird’s team has grown so fast that we needed to expand the office. We’re excited to share with you pictures of our new expanded office, kitchen, lounge, game room, conference rooms, and reception area. Our success depends on the success of our customers, and we are now more capable than ever of continuing to provide the best second-generation DCIM software.
Sunbird’s Models Library release for January is now available: Version 3.112. Download and update to Version 3.112 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?...
451 Research’s Datacenter KnowledgeBase (DCKB) provides quarterly updated figures on various datacenter markets globally. This report delves into the database’s most recent installment to consider the top five US markets based on five different criteria: net operational square feet, net available square feet, CAGR 2013-2017 out of the top 20 US markets, and CAGR 2013-2017 and CAGR 2017-2021 among all US markets. Each of the ranked markets in this report is significant in its own way, but more importantly, comparing these market lists to each other and highlighting incongruencies reveals insight about a market’s status and the direction it’s headed. Providers, investors, and customers can use...