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What do you believe is the biggest barrier to implementing a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution? A recent survey, conducted by Morar Consulting in conjunction with Intel DCM and Schneider Electric, asked this question to over 200 IT decision makers across the United States and the United Kingdom involved with data center management. The results of the survey were recently published in a report titled “DCIM Solution Deployment.”
Unsurprisingly, the answers centered around budgetary concerns, inadequate education about DCIM solutions, and lack of support from C-level executives. Tackling these challenges is the first step to being able to deploy DCIM in your organization and...
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Sunbird’s newest Models Library release of 2017 is now available: Version 3.095. Download and update to Version 3.095 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 you 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 mo...
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Sunbird is excited to be participating with our strategic alliance partner Raritan, Inc. at the Defense Intelligence Agency’s 2017 Department of Defense Intelligence Information System Worldwide Conference from August 13-16, 2017 at America’s Center Convention Complex in St. Louis, Missouri. Come talk to us, get a demo of our award-winning Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution, and discover how our solution will work with Raritan iPDUs to optimize your data center management.
If you're a government or military data center manager or a federal data center professional looking to network with your industry peers as well as senior leaders from the Intelligence Community or Depar...
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08/01/2017
Power IQ DCIM Monitoring
We’re thrilled to announce the release of Power IQ® 6.0, Sunbird’s Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Monitoring software. If you’re ready to upgrade to Release 6.0, simply download the update files from Sunbird’s support portal. If you’d like more information, check out our release notes or continue below.
What’s New in Power IQ
Power IQ 6.0 continues to further Sunbird’s mission of developing easy, modern, and complete data center management software.
This version features several features and enhancements designed to help data center managers and operators better analyze data, save time, and reduce human error in their daily tasks.
Dashboard Technology Refresh
The dashboards...
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Data center maintenance is key to keeping your business-critical systems up and running smoothly. Yet, despite the ever-present threat of disasters and the financial implications of unplanned downtime, many data center managers struggle to ensure that their facilities and equipment are maintained regularly.
Given the versatility of Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software and the variety of problems it can solve, it’s no wonder why today’s data center managers are increasingly looking to data center software as a tool to help them manage maintenance. Consider just a few of the common maintenance headaches data center managers face and how DCIM can help.
1. Knowing when to c...
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Data center security threats are a constant worry for many data center managers. Whether you manage a traditional enterprise facility or a colocation data center, protecting your and your customers’ assets and data is rapidly becoming just as important as maintaining uptime and operating efficiently. The concerns around physical data center security breaches are so significant that they are even driving some organizations to migrate from hybrid environments back to on-premise data centers.
What steps can you take to safeguard your data centers from physical security risks? That’s where Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software comes in. A comprehensive data center software sol...
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Identifying your top data center management problems is a foundational point for any Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) project. Knowing the data center problems that you’re trying to solve helps you create your RFPs and RFIs, evaluate POCs, select and implement a DCIM software solution, and ultimately determines your criteria for initial success.
Unfortunately, defining your data center management challenges is more difficult than it sounds. And with so many competing priorities from the data center, facilities, IT, infrastructure, network, and other teams, how can you whittle your problems down to the few that will everyone agree on?
Once you have an idea what your data center ma...
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To most data center managers, data center disasters are the stuff of nightmares. Disasters can strike your data center at any time. Disaster recovery, assuming you can recover, often requires a great deal of time-intensive and cross-functional effort in sub-optimal conditions. Additionally, while dealing with the disaster, you need to worry about the costly effects of unplanned downtime on your reputation, customers, and bottom line. However, perhaps most terrifying is the perception that data center disasters occur without warning.
With so many fears around disasters in your data center, it’s easy to think that a reactive approach is your only course of action and that data center disaster...
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Sunbird’s newest Models Library release of 2017 is now available: Version 3.094. Download and update to Version 3.094 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 you 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 mo...
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If you’re like most data center management professionals, you might start your Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software selection process with an RFP or RFI that largely resembles a checklist of need-to-have features. Understanding the capabilities that are most important to you is a great start, but choosing the right data center software takes more than simply seeing which vendor checked the most boxes. And with more organizations on their second tries with DCIM, it’s more important than ever to make the right decision.
What Is the DCIM Software Feature Comparison Trap?
The DCIM software feature comparison trap is the tendency to evaluate and select your data center manageme...
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Whether you’re migrating to an owner-operated facility, a colocation data center, or a cloud/hybrid environment, managing the risks and complications involved in a data center move is a challenge even for experienced data center professionals. Checklists and other resources to manage the tasks required for moving your data center are a good start. Data center colocation services often include assisting customers with the migration. But did you know that Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software also can help you simplify planning and avoid many of the risks associated with migrations?
Although data center management software is often considered a tool to be implemented after the...
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Sunbird is excited to be attending Data Center World Local in Chicago, Illinois on July 12, 2017, at The Art Institue of Chicago. Come by Table 15 to meet with our data center experts and get a demo of our award-winning Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution.
This event brings together over 150 of you peers in the data center industry in your local area. Connect with your peers in real-world conversations and gain insight and education that you can use in your environment today. Get in-depth sessions across a broad range of topics like IT operations, facilities operations, data center topics, and security and disaster recovery.
Heading to Data Center World Local in Chicago an...
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Modern data center managers and operators are often assailed by fears of losing their jobs to the cloud. This concern has only become louder and more frequent with the rise of cloud-based data center management and technology trends like virtualization and IoT. With today’s data center customers preferring to pay as they go for fast, on-demand deployment of IT resources, it’s easy to think that the future seems grim for physical, on-premise data centers and the teams that operate them.
As a data center professional, what can you do to futureproof yourself and your data centers in a world where cloud is king? Common suggestions often include career changes, like making the jump to a cloud com...
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Whether you’re implementing Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software, migrating to a new data center, or integrating with a third-party CMDB system, changes to your established data center management software and processes are stressful efforts that require the careful coordination of multiple moving parts. With the high potential for risk, it’s easy to see how your project could get behind schedule, exceed budget, or fail altogether.
Regardless of the size of your project, smart planning often can mitigate risks and lead to a better outcome. Here are four steps that will help you get on the path to a successful data center management project.
1. Appoint a Project Manager.
I...
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Sunbird’s newest Models Library release of 2017 is now available: Version 3.093. Download and update to Version 3.093 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 you 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 mo...
What do you believe is the biggest barrier to implementing a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution? A recent survey, conducted by Morar Consulting in conjunction with Intel DCM and Schneider Electric, asked this question to over 200 IT decision makers across the United States and the United Kingdom involved with data center management. The results of the survey were recently published in a report titled “DCIM Solution Deployment.” Unsurprisingly, the answers centered around budgetary concerns, inadequate education about DCIM solutions, and lack of support from C-level executives. Tackling these challenges is the first step to being able to deploy DCIM in your organization and...
Sunbird’s newest Models Library release of 2017 is now available: Version 3.095. Download and update to Version 3.095 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 you 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 mo...
Sunbird is excited to be participating with our strategic alliance partner Raritan, Inc. at the Defense Intelligence Agency’s 2017 Department of Defense Intelligence Information System Worldwide Conference from August 13-16, 2017 at America’s Center Convention Complex in St. Louis, Missouri. Come talk to us, get a demo of our award-winning Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution, and discover how our solution will work with Raritan iPDUs to optimize your data center management. If you're a government or military data center manager or a federal data center professional looking to network with your industry peers as well as senior leaders from the Intelligence Community or Depar...
We’re thrilled to announce the release of Power IQ® 6.0, Sunbird’s Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Monitoring software. If you’re ready to upgrade to Release 6.0, simply download the update files from Sunbird’s support portal. If you’d like more information, check out our release notes or continue below. What’s New in Power IQ Power IQ 6.0 continues to further Sunbird’s mission of developing easy, modern, and complete data center management software. This version features several features and enhancements designed to help data center managers and operators better analyze data, save time, and reduce human error in their daily tasks. Dashboard Technology Refresh The dashboards...
Data center maintenance is key to keeping your business-critical systems up and running smoothly. Yet, despite the ever-present threat of disasters and the financial implications of unplanned downtime, many data center managers struggle to ensure that their facilities and equipment are maintained regularly. Given the versatility of Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software and the variety of problems it can solve, it’s no wonder why today’s data center managers are increasingly looking to data center software as a tool to help them manage maintenance. Consider just a few of the common maintenance headaches data center managers face and how DCIM can help. 1. Knowing when to c...
Data center security threats are a constant worry for many data center managers. Whether you manage a traditional enterprise facility or a colocation data center, protecting your and your customers’ assets and data is rapidly becoming just as important as maintaining uptime and operating efficiently. The concerns around physical data center security breaches are so significant that they are even driving some organizations to migrate from hybrid environments back to on-premise data centers. What steps can you take to safeguard your data centers from physical security risks? That’s where Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software comes in. A comprehensive data center software sol...
Identifying your top data center management problems is a foundational point for any Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) project. Knowing the data center problems that you’re trying to solve helps you create your RFPs and RFIs, evaluate POCs, select and implement a DCIM software solution, and ultimately determines your criteria for initial success. Unfortunately, defining your data center management challenges is more difficult than it sounds. And with so many competing priorities from the data center, facilities, IT, infrastructure, network, and other teams, how can you whittle your problems down to the few that will everyone agree on? Once you have an idea what your data center ma...
To most data center managers, data center disasters are the stuff of nightmares. Disasters can strike your data center at any time. Disaster recovery, assuming you can recover, often requires a great deal of time-intensive and cross-functional effort in sub-optimal conditions. Additionally, while dealing with the disaster, you need to worry about the costly effects of unplanned downtime on your reputation, customers, and bottom line. However, perhaps most terrifying is the perception that data center disasters occur without warning. With so many fears around disasters in your data center, it’s easy to think that a reactive approach is your only course of action and that data center disaster...
Sunbird’s newest Models Library release of 2017 is now available: Version 3.094. Download and update to Version 3.094 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 you 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 mo...
If you’re like most data center management professionals, you might start your Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software selection process with an RFP or RFI that largely resembles a checklist of need-to-have features. Understanding the capabilities that are most important to you is a great start, but choosing the right data center software takes more than simply seeing which vendor checked the most boxes. And with more organizations on their second tries with DCIM, it’s more important than ever to make the right decision. What Is the DCIM Software Feature Comparison Trap? The DCIM software feature comparison trap is the tendency to evaluate and select your data center manageme...
Whether you’re migrating to an owner-operated facility, a colocation data center, or a cloud/hybrid environment, managing the risks and complications involved in a data center move is a challenge even for experienced data center professionals. Checklists and other resources to manage the tasks required for moving your data center are a good start. Data center colocation services often include assisting customers with the migration. But did you know that Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software also can help you simplify planning and avoid many of the risks associated with migrations? Although data center management software is often considered a tool to be implemented after the...
Sunbird is excited to be attending Data Center World Local in Chicago, Illinois on July 12, 2017, at The Art Institue of Chicago. Come by Table 15 to meet with our data center experts and get a demo of our award-winning Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution. This event brings together over 150 of you peers in the data center industry in your local area. Connect with your peers in real-world conversations and gain insight and education that you can use in your environment today. Get in-depth sessions across a broad range of topics like IT operations, facilities operations, data center topics, and security and disaster recovery. Heading to Data Center World Local in Chicago an...
Whether you’re implementing Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software, migrating to a new data center, or integrating with a third-party CMDB system, changes to your established data center management software and processes are stressful efforts that require the careful coordination of multiple moving parts. With the high potential for risk, it’s easy to see how your project could get behind schedule, exceed budget, or fail altogether. Regardless of the size of your project, smart planning often can mitigate risks and lead to a better outcome. Here are four steps that will help you get on the path to a successful data center management project. 1. Appoint a Project Manager. I...
Sunbird’s newest Models Library release of 2017 is now available: Version 3.093. Download and update to Version 3.093 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 you 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 mo...