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Join Sunbird at France's largest gathering of data center experts, Data Centre World Paris, on November 15-16, 2017 with our partner, EFIRACK. Stop by Stand C40 for a demo of our award-winning Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution.
At DCW Paris, you’ll have the opportunity to meet 150 key market players and learn from 250 industry stakeholders. Don’t 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 power and cable management. Learn more and register here.
Heading to DCW Paris and want to chat one-on-one with a DCIM expert? Sunbird representatives will als...
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Edge data centers are currently one of the hottest trends in the data center industry. Deployed in “Tier-2” locations, these smaller, cost-effective, remotely managed facilities help organizations decrease latency when providing core content, applications, and functionality to end users and devices. Whether they’re used for streaming services like Netflix, online gaming, big data analytics, or self-driving cars, edge data centers are rapidly becoming just as mission critical as their larger, enterprise counterparts. However, edge data centers come with their own set of management challenges.
Our President Herman Chan shared his thoughts on these challenges in a recent article in Data Center...
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Sunbird will be exhibiting at Europe's most anticipated digital infrastructure transformation event, Zettastructure London on November 7-8, 2017 at Old Billingsgate. Stop by Stand 52 for a demo of our award-winning Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution.
At Zettastructure London, you’ll join 1,500+ digital infrastructure professionals including operators, technology specialists, and end-users. Don’t 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 power and cable management. Learn more and register here.
Heading to Zettastructure London and want to chat on...
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Just as our client, a leading medical center and research facility in the United States, has always been on the leading edge of medicine, their data centers have also been regarded as at the forefront of technology. The medical facility already implemented Sunbird’s Power IQ® DCIM Monitoring software to manage their innovative power and cooling environment, and the data center team was pleased with its performance. However, the DCIM tool and homegrown systems used for their asset and change management left much to be desired. In fact, their DCIM was rapidly approaching end-of-life and quickly needed to be replaced.
Data Center Management Challenges
The legacy DCIM tool was difficult to use...
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According to Gartner's Market Share: Servers, Worldwide, 1Q16 Update, global server revenue was down 2.3 percent in the first quarter of 2016, but hardware shipments were up 1.7 percent. This seemingly contradictory figure highlights the decline in prices of hardware during 2015, which in turn is mainly attributed to the rise of cloud-based services and virtualization. That said, over 10 million new servers were shipped in the last 12 months.
The affordability of hardware means that more organizations have access to faster, smarter devices for use in their data centers. These devices are housing mission-critical data and applications that end users need to drive business innovation. Data cen...
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Data center management professionals often are haunted by the specters of human error and inefficiency. Whether you’re worried about lowering power and energy costs or keeping track of moves, adds, and changes in your asset inventory, it’s easy to see how today’s data centers could induce chills in even the most seasoned managers and operators.
But data center management doesn’t have to be ghastly. Here are five tips and tricks to make managing your data center efficient, easy, and even enjoyable:
1. Configure your dashboards for data center management
Struggling through the volume and variety of data collected from your data center may leave you feeling like a zombie. Fortunately, a well-co...
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Modern data center managers are constantly being asked to do more with less, and a data-driven approach can mean the difference between success and failure. But how do you identify which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are right for your organization? How do you manage power and network capacity as well as space? Can you wait to invest in additional equipment or will you experience a shortfall of resources? And how can Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) help?
Join us for our next live DCIM webinar, Data Center KPIs to Optimize Capacity Utilization, on Tuesday, November 7, at 2 PM ET to explore how making the most of your data can help you maximize the value of your data center re...
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Unlike a weak fly ball to the outfield, managing your data center is no can of corn. Today’s data center managers need to worry about maintaining uptime, driving efficiency, and boosting productivity – all while being asked to do more with less. Meanwhile, issues ranging from equipment failures to natural disasters seemingly come out of left field to wreak havoc on your data center. It’s enough to make even the most experienced data center manager break down in tears.
But just like in baseball, there’s no crying in data centers. While you may not be able to watch this year’s World Series on a NOC screen, data center management has more in common with baseball than you might think. When colle...
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What makes a data center “intelligent”? What trends are driving data center transformation? And where does Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software fit in?
Sunbird's own James Cerwinski, Director of Product Management and Marketing, was recently interviewed by Betty Yu for NetAdmin, a Taiwanese publication aimed at IT professionals, on these topics and more.
During the interview, Cerwinski shared his thoughts on modern data center management and how DCIM software is critical for today’s intelligent data centers. He also shared how Sunbird’s 3D visualizations provide data center managers with a wealth of information and visual analytics. (You can read the article in the original...
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Sunbird’s newest Models Library release of 2017 is now available: Version 3.097. Download and update to Version 3.097 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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It seems like it was only yesterday that we were celebrating Sunbird’s first anniversary. A year later, a lot has changed.
As a company, we’ve grown significantly, with new faces added to almost every team. Our Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution has grown as well. This past summer saw our biggest and most content-rich DCIM software releases to date. Power IQ 6.0 featured RFID card reader support for data center security, bulk PDU configuration improvements, and dashboard enhancements. Meanwhile, dcTrack 6.0 incorporated new dashboard and widget capabilities, our patent-pending QuickConnect for making data and power connections faster and more efficiently, and a new pressur...
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Based out of Sunbird’s headquarters in Somerset, New Jersey, our Inside Sales Representatives (ISRs) love to chat with prospects and customers, host sales demos, and—most of all—win. Whether they are competing for the highest number of sales demos for the month or first place in the Sunbird fantasy football league, our ISRs are always ready for battle.
This focused and winning attitude even extends to the serious business of furniture. With the Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) industry poised for continued expansion, Sunbird—including our ISR team—has grown significantly to meet the ever-increasing demand for data center management software. In fact, we’d grown so much that headq...
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Sunbird focuses on creating a single-pane-of-glass view for global data center operations that makes it easy to get data into the system and meaningful information out. This case study explores how Sunbird’s preconfigured dashboards enabled our client to optimize their data center management practices by replacing their outdated, inefficient homegrown tool with more effective dashboards for analyzing and sharing data.
Challenge
Our client, a multi-billion-dollar, global consumer products organization, had multiple enterprise-class data centers with over 4,000 cabinets maintained by a staff of over 30 people. With such an expansive data center environment, the global data center manager and d...
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Sunbird will be exhibiting at the 2017 BICSI Fall Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas on September 25-27, 2017 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Convention Center. Stop by Booth #706 in the exhibit hall for a demo of our award-winning Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution.
At BICSI in Las Vegas, you’ll see forward-thinking and motivational presentations and gain insight into new technologies and industry trends. Don’t 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 power and cable management. Learn more and register here.
Heading to BICSI Las Vegas an...
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Whether as part of a data center move or when switching to a new Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software, most data center managers will need to migrate their asset management information from one database to another sometime in their careers. Unfortunately, that’s easier said than done. Inaccurate inventory data, tracking devices in multiple spreadsheets, and inadequate reporting can wreak havoc on asset management. These issues also make it difficult to locate and troubleshoot your hardware.
In our experience, certain data values are foundational for migrating from one database to another at the asset level. These values enable you to quickly identify and locate your assets a...
Just as our client, a leading medical center and research facility in the United States, has always been on the leading edge of medicine, their data centers have also been regarded as at the forefront of technology. The medical facility already implemented Sunbird’s Power IQ® DCIM Monitoring software to manage their innovative power and cooling environment, and the data center team was pleased with its performance. However, the DCIM tool and homegrown systems used for their asset and change management left much to be desired. In fact, their DCIM was rapidly approaching end-of-life and quickly needed to be replaced. Data Center Management Challenges The legacy DCIM tool was difficult to use...
According to Gartner's Market Share: Servers, Worldwide, 1Q16 Update, global server revenue was down 2.3 percent in the first quarter of 2016, but hardware shipments were up 1.7 percent. This seemingly contradictory figure highlights the decline in prices of hardware during 2015, which in turn is mainly attributed to the rise of cloud-based services and virtualization. That said, over 10 million new servers were shipped in the last 12 months. The affordability of hardware means that more organizations have access to faster, smarter devices for use in their data centers. These devices are housing mission-critical data and applications that end users need to drive business innovation. Data cen...
Unlike a weak fly ball to the outfield, managing your data center is no can of corn. Today’s data center managers need to worry about maintaining uptime, driving efficiency, and boosting productivity – all while being asked to do more with less. Meanwhile, issues ranging from equipment failures to natural disasters seemingly come out of left field to wreak havoc on your data center. It’s enough to make even the most experienced data center manager break down in tears. But just like in baseball, there’s no crying in data centers. While you may not be able to watch this year’s World Series on a NOC screen, data center management has more in common with baseball than you might think. When colle...
What makes a data center “intelligent”? What trends are driving data center transformation? And where does Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software fit in? Sunbird's own James Cerwinski, Director of Product Management and Marketing, was recently interviewed by Betty Yu for NetAdmin, a Taiwanese publication aimed at IT professionals, on these topics and more. During the interview, Cerwinski shared his thoughts on modern data center management and how DCIM software is critical for today’s intelligent data centers. He also shared how Sunbird’s 3D visualizations provide data center managers with a wealth of information and visual analytics. (You can read the article in the original...
Sunbird’s newest Models Library release of 2017 is now available: Version 3.097. Download and update to Version 3.097 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...
It seems like it was only yesterday that we were celebrating Sunbird’s first anniversary. A year later, a lot has changed. As a company, we’ve grown significantly, with new faces added to almost every team. Our Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution has grown as well. This past summer saw our biggest and most content-rich DCIM software releases to date. Power IQ 6.0 featured RFID card reader support for data center security, bulk PDU configuration improvements, and dashboard enhancements. Meanwhile, dcTrack 6.0 incorporated new dashboard and widget capabilities, our patent-pending QuickConnect for making data and power connections faster and more efficiently, and a new pressur...
Based out of Sunbird’s headquarters in Somerset, New Jersey, our Inside Sales Representatives (ISRs) love to chat with prospects and customers, host sales demos, and—most of all—win. Whether they are competing for the highest number of sales demos for the month or first place in the Sunbird fantasy football league, our ISRs are always ready for battle. This focused and winning attitude even extends to the serious business of furniture. With the Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) industry poised for continued expansion, Sunbird—including our ISR team—has grown significantly to meet the ever-increasing demand for data center management software. In fact, we’d grown so much that headq...
Sunbird focuses on creating a single-pane-of-glass view for global data center operations that makes it easy to get data into the system and meaningful information out. This case study explores how Sunbird’s preconfigured dashboards enabled our client to optimize their data center management practices by replacing their outdated, inefficient homegrown tool with more effective dashboards for analyzing and sharing data. Challenge Our client, a multi-billion-dollar, global consumer products organization, had multiple enterprise-class data centers with over 4,000 cabinets maintained by a staff of over 30 people. With such an expansive data center environment, the global data center manager and d...
Whether as part of a data center move or when switching to a new Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software, most data center managers will need to migrate their asset management information from one database to another sometime in their careers. Unfortunately, that’s easier said than done. Inaccurate inventory data, tracking devices in multiple spreadsheets, and inadequate reporting can wreak havoc on asset management. These issues also make it difficult to locate and troubleshoot your hardware. In our experience, certain data values are foundational for migrating from one database to another at the asset level. These values enable you to quickly identify and locate your assets a...
