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Modern data centers are complex, distributed environments. As a result, most organizations require a large number of disparate systems that store massive amounts of data for effective data center management.
However, the different databases used to manage today’s data centers often lead to inaccurate data and reduced productivity from entering the same data multiple times, functional silos that hinder access to all available data, and a host of other challenges.
How can data center professionals leverage information from IT service management (ITSM), configuration management databases (CMDBs), and other data center management systems to better correlate and gain value from their data? What c...
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Sunbird will be at Data Center World Singapore on October 10th-11th located at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Center, Singapore. Stop by Stand G62 for a demonstration of our award-winning Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution from our very own Sunbird Software President, Herman Chan!
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 b...
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When you consider key use cases for data center power management, one of the first things you might think of is energy efficiency. After all, the more you can control your data center energy consumption, the more money you can save, the better you can utilize your existing resources, and the more strictly you can adhere to industry guidelines for safe environments for your IT equipment or for green data center initiatives. That’s why data center monitoring combined with the ability to set thresholds and send traps, alerts, and notifications is so useful for today’s data center managers.
But what if your intelligent PDUs can’t send traps? What if there is a network or power outage? These are...
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Edge data centers are among the hottest topics in data center management today. But what exactly is an edge data center? How can you tell if a facility is truly an edge data center, or if it’s simply a data center in an underserved market?
Unsurprisingly, it’s difficult to nail down a standard definition. That’s due in part to the relative infancy of edge data centers as an established trend. Another reason may be that data center professionals tend to define edge data centers from the perspectives of their own roles, industries, or priorities. While some may say that an edge data center is one that serves up large amounts of online content to the majority of the user population, others focu...
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Sunbird is excited to be attending Datacenter Forum Copenhagen on September 20, 2018 at the Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel. Stop by stand 5 to meet our data center experts and get a demo of the new features and enhancements in our award-winning Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution.
Interested in learning more about Reducing the Complexity of Data Center Management with Second-Generation DCIM? Then you don’t want to miss our DCIM expert, Niall Bannon's presentation from 13:00-13:40 in Hall 1. During his presentation attendees will learn:
Why data center operations is a data and analytics problem.
Best practices for creating dashboards that track the most useful metrics for...
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Power Distribution Units (PDUs) are a critical aspect of your data center power management. Alongside your UPSs, CRACs, patch panels, and other items in your data center, they help ensure a reliable supply of power to your devices.
Back when data centers were still called data rooms, basic or “dumb” PDUs were sufficient for most power distribution needs. However, as data centers have become increasingly complex and dense, data center managers have found that they need newer, more functional power solutions designed for modern data center environments.
That’s where intelligent or “smart” PDUs (iPDUs) come in. With the global intelligent PDU market expected to reach $2.01 billion by 2023, it’...
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Modern data center environments are more complex than ever. They are becoming increasingly dense, have more instrumentation, sensors, and smart devices like intelligent PDUs, and are trending towards distributed, hybrid models that comprise traditional enterprise data centers, colocation data centers, and public/private clouds or managed services.
As a result, many modern data center professionals are turning to new, second-generation Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software to reduce the complexity of managing today’s data centers. Unlike many legacy tools, which lacked features, were difficult to use, and ultimately disappointed early DCIM adopters, second-generation DCIM soft...
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Sunbird’s Models Library release for September is now available: Version 3.108. Download and update to Version 3.108 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 mode...
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Sunbird will be at 2018 BICSI Fall Conference & Exhibition on September 9-13 located at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. Stop by Booth 515 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...
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Sunbird will be at 2018 BICSI Fall Conference & Exhibition on September 9-13 located at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. Stop by Booth 515 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...
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Data center monitoring is critical for tackling many of the most difficult tasks facing modern data center managers. It provides insights and visibility into the health and status of your data centers by tracking specific metrics in real time and sending alerts or notifications when readings exceed or fall below the set thresholds.
Although exactly what you monitor will vary based on your data center environment and objectives, most data center managers typically focus on cabinets and their contents, cooling units, doors and locks, and other facility equipment to address their typical use cases. Given the distributed nature of modern data center environments, you may even be monitoring diffe...
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Data center racks are becoming denser, with IT equipment and a supporting infrastructure that consumes more power than ever before. When power was cheap, few companies gave any thought to how well they managed their power resources. But with electricity costs reaching historic highs, companies have had no choice but to investigate energy efficient technologies and practices that can help lower those costs and keep them competitive in a tighter global market.
With this in mind, we have put together a list of top five best practices to help you efficiently manage your data center racks in this continually changing and cost-conscious environment.
1. Monitor Your Environment for Energy and...
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Keeping an eye on data center energy consumption is one of the most difficult tasks of maintaining data centers today. Organizations are facing never-ending requests for IT resource capacity to store and process the data and applications required for innovative technologies like big data, IoT, AI, and machine learning. As a result, modern data center environments are becoming increasingly complex and dense.
Today’s data center teams are being tasked to be more efficient with fewer resources, including energy and cooling. But how can data center managers maintain a safe environment for their intelligent PDUs, UPSs, and other hardware equipment while also keeping costs low?
That’s where modern...
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Sunbird will be at DCD Sydney on August 23- 24 located at the International Convention Centre in Sydney, Australia. Stop by Stand 501 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 dev...
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Sunbird’s Models Library release for August is now available: Version 3.107. Download and update to Version 3.107 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?...
Modern data centers are complex, distributed environments. As a result, most organizations require a large number of disparate systems that store massive amounts of data for effective data center management. However, the different databases used to manage today’s data centers often lead to inaccurate data and reduced productivity from entering the same data multiple times, functional silos that hinder access to all available data, and a host of other challenges. How can data center professionals leverage information from IT service management (ITSM), configuration management databases (CMDBs), and other data center management systems to better correlate and gain value from their data? What c...
When you consider key use cases for data center power management, one of the first things you might think of is energy efficiency. After all, the more you can control your data center energy consumption, the more money you can save, the better you can utilize your existing resources, and the more strictly you can adhere to industry guidelines for safe environments for your IT equipment or for green data center initiatives. That’s why data center monitoring combined with the ability to set thresholds and send traps, alerts, and notifications is so useful for today’s data center managers. But what if your intelligent PDUs can’t send traps? What if there is a network or power outage? These are...
Edge data centers are among the hottest topics in data center management today. But what exactly is an edge data center? How can you tell if a facility is truly an edge data center, or if it’s simply a data center in an underserved market? Unsurprisingly, it’s difficult to nail down a standard definition. That’s due in part to the relative infancy of edge data centers as an established trend. Another reason may be that data center professionals tend to define edge data centers from the perspectives of their own roles, industries, or priorities. While some may say that an edge data center is one that serves up large amounts of online content to the majority of the user population, others focu...
Power Distribution Units (PDUs) are a critical aspect of your data center power management. Alongside your UPSs, CRACs, patch panels, and other items in your data center, they help ensure a reliable supply of power to your devices. Back when data centers were still called data rooms, basic or “dumb” PDUs were sufficient for most power distribution needs. However, as data centers have become increasingly complex and dense, data center managers have found that they need newer, more functional power solutions designed for modern data center environments. That’s where intelligent or “smart” PDUs (iPDUs) come in. With the global intelligent PDU market expected to reach $2.01 billion by 2023, it’...
Modern data center environments are more complex than ever. They are becoming increasingly dense, have more instrumentation, sensors, and smart devices like intelligent PDUs, and are trending towards distributed, hybrid models that comprise traditional enterprise data centers, colocation data centers, and public/private clouds or managed services. As a result, many modern data center professionals are turning to new, second-generation Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software to reduce the complexity of managing today’s data centers. Unlike many legacy tools, which lacked features, were difficult to use, and ultimately disappointed early DCIM adopters, second-generation DCIM soft...
Sunbird’s Models Library release for September is now available: Version 3.108. Download and update to Version 3.108 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 mode...
Sunbird will be at 2018 BICSI Fall Conference & Exhibition on September 9-13 located at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. Stop by Booth 515 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...
Data center monitoring is critical for tackling many of the most difficult tasks facing modern data center managers. It provides insights and visibility into the health and status of your data centers by tracking specific metrics in real time and sending alerts or notifications when readings exceed or fall below the set thresholds. Although exactly what you monitor will vary based on your data center environment and objectives, most data center managers typically focus on cabinets and their contents, cooling units, doors and locks, and other facility equipment to address their typical use cases. Given the distributed nature of modern data center environments, you may even be monitoring diffe...
Data center racks are becoming denser, with IT equipment and a supporting infrastructure that consumes more power than ever before. When power was cheap, few companies gave any thought to how well they managed their power resources. But with electricity costs reaching historic highs, companies have had no choice but to investigate energy efficient technologies and practices that can help lower those costs and keep them competitive in a tighter global market. With this in mind, we have put together a list of top five best practices to help you efficiently manage your data center racks in this continually changing and cost-conscious environment. 1. Monitor Your Environment for Energy and...
Keeping an eye on data center energy consumption is one of the most difficult tasks of maintaining data centers today. Organizations are facing never-ending requests for IT resource capacity to store and process the data and applications required for innovative technologies like big data, IoT, AI, and machine learning. As a result, modern data center environments are becoming increasingly complex and dense. Today’s data center teams are being tasked to be more efficient with fewer resources, including energy and cooling. But how can data center managers maintain a safe environment for their intelligent PDUs, UPSs, and other hardware equipment while also keeping costs low? That’s where modern...
Sunbird’s Models Library release for August is now available: Version 3.107. Download and update to Version 3.107 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?...
