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Data center automation is the process in which routine processes of data center operations are completed without any manual effort. It increases operational efficiency, improves data accuracy, and simplifies data center management.
One of the leading organizations in driving automation via integration with Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software is Workday. Workday has been a Sunbird customer for over five years and currently has 900+ users on their system and growing.
In a recent Automation Workshop webinar, the data center experts from Workday shared their real-world use cases and insights on how they use APIs and integration to eliminate manual effort in their data center op...
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Sunbird’s Models Library release for September is now available: Version 3.145. Download and update to Version 3.145 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 mode...
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Sunbird is excited to be attending Datacenter Forum Oslo, at the Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel in Norway on October 5th. Stop by our booth 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.
Want to learn more about one of the burning issues facing today’s data center managers and operational teams? Don’t miss our DCIM expert Richard May as he presents on DCIM in the real world – reducing risk and increasing efficiency presented via Use Cases in Hall 1 from 14:15-14:45.
Heading to DCF Oslo and want to chat one-on-one with a DCIM expert? Sunbirds representatives also will be availa...
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Data center managers are tasked with increasing energy efficiency to improve data center sustainability and save money. One of the best practices to increase data center energy efficiency is to implement data center containment.
Data center containment is a highly effective way of managing airflow, increasing efficiency, and reducing wasteful energy costs. It is the separation of cold supply air from cooling equipment from the hot exhaust air from IT equipment. Data center containment enables a uniform, stable supply temperature to the intake of IT equipment and warmer, drier return air to cooling infrastructure.
Types of data center containment include hot aisle containment and cold aisle c...
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Sunbird’s Models Library release for September is now available: Version 3.144. Download and update to Version 3.144 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 mode...
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Automating data center tasks to increase operational efficiency is a primary goal for most data center professionals, but it can be a struggle. Professionals who have used legacy data center management tools like first-generation Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software, Excel, and Visio can attest to the fact that they are time-consuming, difficult to maintain, and inaccurate. They require excessive manual data entry and often leave data siloed, resulting in wasted time and data you can’t trust.
However, second-generation DCIM software has changed everything. The goal of second-generation DCIM is to radically simplify data center management with elegant software. Among the key...
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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...
Data center automation is the process in which routine processes of data center operations are completed without any manual effort. It increases operational efficiency, improves data accuracy, and simplifies data center management. One of the leading organizations in driving automation via integration with Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software is Workday. Workday has been a Sunbird customer for over five years and currently has 900+ users on their system and growing. In a recent Automation Workshop webinar, the data center experts from Workday shared their real-world use cases and insights on how they use APIs and integration to eliminate manual effort in their data center op...
Sunbird’s Models Library release for September is now available: Version 3.145. Download and update to Version 3.145 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 mode...
Sunbird is excited to be attending Datacenter Forum Oslo, at the Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel in Norway on October 5th. Stop by our booth 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. Want to learn more about one of the burning issues facing today’s data center managers and operational teams? Don’t miss our DCIM expert Richard May as he presents on DCIM in the real world – reducing risk and increasing efficiency presented via Use Cases in Hall 1 from 14:15-14:45. Heading to DCF Oslo and want to chat one-on-one with a DCIM expert? Sunbirds representatives also will be availa...
Data center managers are tasked with increasing energy efficiency to improve data center sustainability and save money. One of the best practices to increase data center energy efficiency is to implement data center containment. Data center containment is a highly effective way of managing airflow, increasing efficiency, and reducing wasteful energy costs. It is the separation of cold supply air from cooling equipment from the hot exhaust air from IT equipment. Data center containment enables a uniform, stable supply temperature to the intake of IT equipment and warmer, drier return air to cooling infrastructure. Types of data center containment include hot aisle containment and cold aisle c...
Sunbird’s Models Library release for September is now available: Version 3.144. Download and update to Version 3.144 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 mode...
Automating data center tasks to increase operational efficiency is a primary goal for most data center professionals, but it can be a struggle. Professionals who have used legacy data center management tools like first-generation Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software, Excel, and Visio can attest to the fact that they are time-consuming, difficult to maintain, and inaccurate. They require excessive manual data entry and often leave data siloed, resulting in wasted time and data you can’t trust. However, second-generation DCIM software has changed everything. The goal of second-generation DCIM is to radically simplify data center management with elegant software. Among the key...
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...