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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...
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Modern data center managers need to know how much capacity and power they have in the data center, where the best place is to deploy new IT equipment, and when they will need more power and space. The demand for resources is on the rise in data centers and IT labs around the world, but most IT facilities only have a finite amount of space, power, cooling, and connectivity capacity to work with. Therefore, it’s more important than ever to intelligently manage resources so that you can make more informed capacity planning decisions, use power resources more efficiently, and save on operating expenses. To do so, you need an accurate and reliable way to view your capacity.
Data Center Infrastruc...
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Data centers and IT labs everywhere are approaching operational capacity limits. Power resources are increasingly constrained and the cost of energy is spiraling out of control. You need to know how much power you are using, how much is available, and where you can improve efficiency. As budgets are decreasing, having a tool to help answer these questions and keep your power usage in control is critical.
That's where Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software comes in. Sunbird's Power IQ power management capabilities make it simple to monitor the power usage of the devices in your data center. In our new video, you'll see how you can:
Get actionable insights from zero-configura...
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As a major part of their digital transformation efforts, more organizations must learn to leverage and derive more insights from their data. These initiatives impact the data center in two key ways. First, modern data centers need to adapt to the speed of IT and learn to provision resources in ways that reflect the on-demand, cloud-like experience that customers have come to expect.
Second, to achieve this goal, data center managers need to learn to make better use of the data generated by the intelligent instrumentation in their data center environments. This requires the collection of real-time data from the assets in your data center in conjunction with using Data Center Infrastructure Ma...
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"One of the hall marks of Sunbird is its customer-centric product development process and service organization. In interviews with current customers, a consistent theme was the company's commitment to helping customers succeed in the journey to improving management and use of data center resources." - Jennifer Cooke, Research Director, IDC
We’re pleased to announce that IDC, a global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology market, has published a vendor profile on Sunbird Software.
Titled “Sunbird Software: Facilitating Customers’ Shift to Data-Driven Decisions with DCIM Solutions”, the profile highlights Sunbird’s customer-centric focus....
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...
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...
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...
Modern data center managers need to know how much capacity and power they have in the data center, where the best place is to deploy new IT equipment, and when they will need more power and space. The demand for resources is on the rise in data centers and IT labs around the world, but most IT facilities only have a finite amount of space, power, cooling, and connectivity capacity to work with. Therefore, it’s more important than ever to intelligently manage resources so that you can make more informed capacity planning decisions, use power resources more efficiently, and save on operating expenses. To do so, you need an accurate and reliable way to view your capacity. Data Center Infrastruc...
Data centers and IT labs everywhere are approaching operational capacity limits. Power resources are increasingly constrained and the cost of energy is spiraling out of control. You need to know how much power you are using, how much is available, and where you can improve efficiency. As budgets are decreasing, having a tool to help answer these questions and keep your power usage in control is critical. That's where Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software comes in. Sunbird's Power IQ power management capabilities make it simple to monitor the power usage of the devices in your data center. In our new video, you'll see how you can: Get actionable insights from zero-configura...
As a major part of their digital transformation efforts, more organizations must learn to leverage and derive more insights from their data. These initiatives impact the data center in two key ways. First, modern data centers need to adapt to the speed of IT and learn to provision resources in ways that reflect the on-demand, cloud-like experience that customers have come to expect. Second, to achieve this goal, data center managers need to learn to make better use of the data generated by the intelligent instrumentation in their data center environments. This requires the collection of real-time data from the assets in your data center in conjunction with using Data Center Infrastructure Ma...
"One of the hall marks of Sunbird is its customer-centric product development process and service organization. In interviews with current customers, a consistent theme was the company's commitment to helping customers succeed in the journey to improving management and use of data center resources." - Jennifer Cooke, Research Director, IDC We’re pleased to announce that IDC, a global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology market, has published a vendor profile on Sunbird Software. Titled “Sunbird Software: Facilitating Customers’ Shift to Data-Driven Decisions with DCIM Solutions”, the profile highlights Sunbird’s customer-centric focus....
