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Sunbird’s Models Library release for August is now available: Version 3.143. Download and update to Version 3.143 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 37,000 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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Data center management is constantly changing to keep up with the ever-increasing complexity and distributed nature of data center, edge, and lab infrastructure. Data center professionals must adapt to new trends, tools, and processes to achieve their goals of maintaining uptime, increasing the efficiency of capacity utilization, and improving the productivity of people.
We are in a “new normal” of data center infrastructure management, and it is not just about the COVID-19 pandemic. Yes, the pandemic was a catalyst for many industry changes--specifically the need to manage data centers remotely--but ultimately, it only accelerated trends that already underway.
Our new white paper The State...
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Sunbird will be at BICSI Fall in Las Vegas, NV August 22nd- 26th! Stop by booth 6632 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 panels—all at the click of a mous...
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Sunbird will be at DCW Global in Orlando, Florida August 16th- 19th Stop by booth 605 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 panels—all at the click of a mou...
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Data center managers are increasingly looking for ways to automate tasks to save time and improve data accuracy.
In our recent Automation Workshop webinar, data center experts from eBay, MacStadium, and the University of Chicago shared their real-world use cases and insights on how they use APIs and integration to drive data center automation.
Here are the key takeaways from their presentations as they demonstrated how Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software dramatically simplifies data center management.
1. eBay Automates Power Budget Calculations and Updates
Before they deployed a modern DCIM solution, eBay had difficulty identifying their power utilization for capacity pla...
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Sunbird’s Models Library release for July is now available: Version 3.142. Download and update to Version 3.142 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 37,000 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? Co...
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Whether you are downsizing your infrastructure within a single room or eliminating half of your data center sites, a data center consolidation is a complex, risk-prone project.
Fortunately, you can mitigate many of the mistakes and unwelcome surprises that even the most experienced data center professionals find derailing their project and instead enjoy the many advantages of a data center consolidation.
We have spoken with countless customers that have executed successful data center consolidations, and we have learned first-hand how these industry experts facilitated an easy transition with fewer risks.
Key Drivers of Data Center Consolidations
Government mandates. Federal mandates li...
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Today, it’s more important than ever to secure your critical infrastructure. You just have to look at some of the large cyberattacks that occurred this year to understand why.
JBS paid an $11 million ransom to cybercriminals who temporarily knocked out plants that process roughly one-fifth of the US’s meat supply.
Colonial Pipeline paid $4.4 million worth of Bitcoin to a criminal hacking group that forced the company to take systems offline and disable the pipeline. It was the largest ever cyberattack on an American energy system.
A cyberattack aimed at Australian broadcaster Channel Nine rendered them unable to air several shows, disrupted their internet access, and brought down se...
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Despite the proven benefits of Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software, there remains a degree of skepticism about DCIM solutions.
Is that skepticism justified? Have vendors failed to communicate a clear and compelling value proposition? What needs to happen to reinvigorate the DCIM sector so that it can fulfill its potential?
In a recent article published in Inside Networks magazine, Sunbird Software President Herman Chan tackled these questions.
A Brief History of DCIM
To understand why data center professionals are skeptical, it’s important to understand a brief history of DCIM.
Before the first DCIM products were introduced in the late 2000s, IT professionals and Faciliti...
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Sunbird’s Models Library release for June is now available: Version 3.141. Download and update to Version 3.141 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 37,000 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? Co...
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Modern data centers are growing in density and complexity as IT devices require more and more power to racks. This can lead to issues with power distribution, cabling, and cooling, and challenges data center managers to keep pace with the ever-increasing demands of IT infrastructure.
To stay ahead of the rising power requirements for critical infrastructure in racks while reducing complexity, many data center managers deploy overhead busways for their power distribution architecture. The benefits of busways can be found in increased space capacity, flexibility, energy efficiency, scalability, modularity, reliability, customizability, and safety. Busways also reduce construction costs, constr...
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According to Gartner, more than 75% of all enterprise-generated data will be created and processed outside of the traditional data center or cloud by 2025. Instead, much of this data will be handled by edge data centers.
Edge data centers are smaller facilities located close to the populations they serve that deliver cloud computing resources and cached content to end users. They typically connect to a larger central data center or multiple data centers. By processing data and services as close to the end user as possible, edge computing allows organizations to reduce latency and improve the customer experience.
Examples of edge data centers include modular data centers fabricated from steel...
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Sunbird’s Models Library release for May is now available: Version 3.140. Download and update to Version 3.140 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 37,000 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? Con...
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Nearly 30% of all unplanned data center outages are caused by environment issues. It’s an unfortunate truth that many data center managers don’t realize the importance of data center environment monitoring until it’s too late and they experience a serious issue themselves.
Given that modern data centers need to be monitored and managed remotely, how do you know what’s going on in your environment when you lack visibility and have minimal onsite personnel? The answer is with a complete remote data center management strategy that includes best practices such as deploying a variety of environment sensors and monitoring, trending, and reporting on the data they collect to improve data center man...
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Data center energy consumption today is so enormous, that if all the data center sites around the world were a country, they would rank as the 5th largest energy consumer globally. Emerging technologies such as big data, IoT, and AI place a high demand on IT resource capacity, and data center professionals are tasked with keeping up with this demand while reducing space, power, and cooling resources to improve efficiency and save money.
Still, green data centers have innovated ways to do more with less energy. Despite the incredible growth in data center demand over the past decade, total data center energy consumption only increased by 6%.
Here are some of the best practices that cutting-e...
Sunbird’s Models Library release for August is now available: Version 3.143. Download and update to Version 3.143 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 37,000 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?...
Data center management is constantly changing to keep up with the ever-increasing complexity and distributed nature of data center, edge, and lab infrastructure. Data center professionals must adapt to new trends, tools, and processes to achieve their goals of maintaining uptime, increasing the efficiency of capacity utilization, and improving the productivity of people. We are in a “new normal” of data center infrastructure management, and it is not just about the COVID-19 pandemic. Yes, the pandemic was a catalyst for many industry changes--specifically the need to manage data centers remotely--but ultimately, it only accelerated trends that already underway. Our new white paper The State...
Sunbird will be at BICSI Fall in Las Vegas, NV August 22nd- 26th! Stop by booth 6632 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 panels—all at the click of a mous...
Sunbird will be at DCW Global in Orlando, Florida August 16th- 19th Stop by booth 605 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 panels—all at the click of a mou...
Data center managers are increasingly looking for ways to automate tasks to save time and improve data accuracy. In our recent Automation Workshop webinar, data center experts from eBay, MacStadium, and the University of Chicago shared their real-world use cases and insights on how they use APIs and integration to drive data center automation. Here are the key takeaways from their presentations as they demonstrated how Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software dramatically simplifies data center management. 1. eBay Automates Power Budget Calculations and Updates Before they deployed a modern DCIM solution, eBay had difficulty identifying their power utilization for capacity pla...
Sunbird’s Models Library release for July is now available: Version 3.142. Download and update to Version 3.142 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 37,000 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? Co...
Whether you are downsizing your infrastructure within a single room or eliminating half of your data center sites, a data center consolidation is a complex, risk-prone project. Fortunately, you can mitigate many of the mistakes and unwelcome surprises that even the most experienced data center professionals find derailing their project and instead enjoy the many advantages of a data center consolidation. We have spoken with countless customers that have executed successful data center consolidations, and we have learned first-hand how these industry experts facilitated an easy transition with fewer risks. Key Drivers of Data Center Consolidations Government mandates. Federal mandates li...
Today, it’s more important than ever to secure your critical infrastructure. You just have to look at some of the large cyberattacks that occurred this year to understand why. JBS paid an $11 million ransom to cybercriminals who temporarily knocked out plants that process roughly one-fifth of the US’s meat supply. Colonial Pipeline paid $4.4 million worth of Bitcoin to a criminal hacking group that forced the company to take systems offline and disable the pipeline. It was the largest ever cyberattack on an American energy system. A cyberattack aimed at Australian broadcaster Channel Nine rendered them unable to air several shows, disrupted their internet access, and brought down se...
Despite the proven benefits of Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software, there remains a degree of skepticism about DCIM solutions. Is that skepticism justified? Have vendors failed to communicate a clear and compelling value proposition? What needs to happen to reinvigorate the DCIM sector so that it can fulfill its potential? In a recent article published in Inside Networks magazine, Sunbird Software President Herman Chan tackled these questions. A Brief History of DCIM To understand why data center professionals are skeptical, it’s important to understand a brief history of DCIM. Before the first DCIM products were introduced in the late 2000s, IT professionals and Faciliti...
Sunbird’s Models Library release for June is now available: Version 3.141. Download and update to Version 3.141 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 37,000 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? Co...
Modern data centers are growing in density and complexity as IT devices require more and more power to racks. This can lead to issues with power distribution, cabling, and cooling, and challenges data center managers to keep pace with the ever-increasing demands of IT infrastructure. To stay ahead of the rising power requirements for critical infrastructure in racks while reducing complexity, many data center managers deploy overhead busways for their power distribution architecture. The benefits of busways can be found in increased space capacity, flexibility, energy efficiency, scalability, modularity, reliability, customizability, and safety. Busways also reduce construction costs, constr...
According to Gartner, more than 75% of all enterprise-generated data will be created and processed outside of the traditional data center or cloud by 2025. Instead, much of this data will be handled by edge data centers. Edge data centers are smaller facilities located close to the populations they serve that deliver cloud computing resources and cached content to end users. They typically connect to a larger central data center or multiple data centers. By processing data and services as close to the end user as possible, edge computing allows organizations to reduce latency and improve the customer experience. Examples of edge data centers include modular data centers fabricated from steel...
Sunbird’s Models Library release for May is now available: Version 3.140. Download and update to Version 3.140 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 37,000 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? Con...
Nearly 30% of all unplanned data center outages are caused by environment issues. It’s an unfortunate truth that many data center managers don’t realize the importance of data center environment monitoring until it’s too late and they experience a serious issue themselves. Given that modern data centers need to be monitored and managed remotely, how do you know what’s going on in your environment when you lack visibility and have minimal onsite personnel? The answer is with a complete remote data center management strategy that includes best practices such as deploying a variety of environment sensors and monitoring, trending, and reporting on the data they collect to improve data center man...
Data center energy consumption today is so enormous, that if all the data center sites around the world were a country, they would rank as the 5th largest energy consumer globally. Emerging technologies such as big data, IoT, and AI place a high demand on IT resource capacity, and data center professionals are tasked with keeping up with this demand while reducing space, power, and cooling resources to improve efficiency and save money. Still, green data centers have innovated ways to do more with less energy. Despite the incredible growth in data center demand over the past decade, total data center energy consumption only increased by 6%. Here are some of the best practices that cutting-e...