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Reduce Data Center Costs with a Remote Power Management System

As today’s networks are growing, becoming most expensive to operate and even more complicated, the number of distributed networks and remote branches are also increasing rapidly, creating a need for efficient console servers.  And with budgets for network management staff dwindling, it is becoming even more important to build in capabilities to improve the response time to an outage or other problem  This makes remote power management a key element in efficiently managing your data center.

While some businesses are utilizing UPS (uninterruptible power supplies), a substantial number are not implementing a remote power management solution to provide them with the full range of protection and cost savings available to them via a remote console server.  These power management console servers are network-managed devices that allow remote control of the power on a per-receptacle basis, allowing remote cycling of equipment and other management capabilities.

For many equipment issues, cycling power can be the fastest – or only – way to correct problems. Through a remote console server, technicians can monitor power, perform a remote reboot and control individual power receptacles. If a system freezes, the technician can remotely reboot power and quickly return the network to operational status.

The benefits of remote power management include:

reduction in required site visits;
quick recovery from software lockouts;
ability to activate standby equipment and remotely shut down defective equipment;
remote monitoring of power consumption to identify any changes;
reports to audit power before making the decision to add equipment;
ability to control power sequencing.

The single most important justification for remote power management is the cost savings related to site trips previously required to alleviate common issues, including:

restoring network connectivity via remote reboot of key servers or network equipment after a failure;
remotely activating standby equipment and shutting down primary equipment;
increases in power consumption from attached systems that can indicate an impending hardware failure;
knowing in advance whether equipment expansion or upgrades can be done within a rack pdu’s power level;
sequencing power to outlets on power up to eliminate current inrush and maximize use of circuit ratings;
maximizing runtime by shutting down non-critical equipment.

A UPS is sometimes considered sufficient protection for equipment, but a complete power management solution provides control in addition to power outage protection. Advanced power management is often integrated with other remote management resources to simplify management and reduce the number of interfaces.

These technologies are called out-of-band management or out-of-band networking and are implemented on console terminal servers. The most common interface used for out-of-band management is a serial connection to the service port of servers, storage, routers, switches, and other types of network equipment. Through a single interface, an administrator can manage power, console terminal servers and environmental and security management for a wide variety of applications.

Complete power management – beyond the protection of a UPS – can be a critical element of network management for today’s businesses. A properly-configured power management system can provide around-the-clock remote power access and real-time monitoring that allows the data center manager to address a large number of common network problems without the need for a site visit. With this capability, businesses can greatly reduce the cost of network downtime without increasing network management staffing costs.

Tour of homes, businesses puts spotlight on solar power

Tour of homes, businesses puts spotlight on solar power
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Data Center Energy Smart Power Management Show Their Skills

Data center power consumption is an important operating cost of the expenditure. Around this demand, the industry introduced a variety of energy-saving products and solutions, but the electricity directly to equipment to monitor and manage rare. Recently, KVM (room monitoring and management) vendors Raritan (Raritan) pioneered a smart Power supply Management solution for data center power saving added a good helper.

Raritan enjoyed a high reputation in the field of KVM, and its new smart Power supply In the field of Raritan KVM management took many years of accumulated experience and equipment monitoring and control at Raritan PDU (power distribution unit) side of the latest combined. This is a comprehensive power management software, intelligent PDU and the environment Sensor Equipment, software and hardware integration solution that provides remote power control, rack-and device-level monitoring capabilities for data center managers to provide useful information to improve equipment uptime and capacity planning.

The program by the intelligent PDU (Intelligent PDU) and PowerIQ power management software. Intelligent PDU through Cabinets Power level and device-side monitoring and management, an accurate count of equipment-level power consumption for use Capacitance Volume control and collection of electricity provided accurate data based. The difference between ordinary PDU also is intelligent PDU to the remote site as the same person at the device power on, off, reboot operations, and repair failures, security systems up and running, but also will idle PDU Socket Make no power state, insert the device to eliminate human errors caused by the overload trip PDU and equipment downtime, and through the delay configuration PDU socket calls to avoid equipment while in power due to power outages caused by peak instantaneous current trip. Raritan’s Intelligent PDU’s biggest feature is that not only provides a measurement of each port’s power capabilities, but also the microenvironment of the device temperature and humidity monitoring.

Raritan, CEO and president, said Dr. Xu Qingyi traditional PDU can only be done in the measurement of the overall measurement, and Raritan’s intelligent PDU accurate to measure the consumption of power per port, more importantly, the data after these measures will be collected to provide a reference for managers.

Addition to intelligent PDU, the power management software can not belittle the role of PowerIQ. According to Dr. Xu Qingyi description, equipment, electricity consumption and the equipment, temperature, humidity and other information and serve PowerIQ power management software, summarized by the software, and then presented to managers to help managers to understand the basis of each equipment rack and IT Equipment power consumption. Moreover, the software also statistical trend analysis of data for management decision-making reference. If the abnormal electrical equipment or equipment changes in the microenvironment will promptly notify the management of alarm in time, to the greatest extent to ensure equipment is always in health, to avoid unplanned downtime.

Dr. Xu Qingyi the data center’s power management is divided into four stages, namely the connection (to ensure the reliability of the power supply), measurement (measuring electrical energy consumption), analysis (to find the reasons for the low efficiency of the power) and intelligent distribution (based on the demand realize the dynamic power allocation). He said that the power management is still in the connection and metering stages, in order to move towards more advanced stage of the analysis and intelligent distribution, intelligent power management is an essential means of data center managers.

Advanced Systems Concepts Brings Greater Power to ActiveBatch® by Becoming an Informatica Featured Partner

Advanced Systems Concepts Brings Greater Power to ActiveBatch® by Becoming an Informatica Featured Partner
Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. , maker of ActiveBatch® Workload Automation and Job Scheduling Software and other solutions that enhance Windowsâ¢, Linux, UNIX, z/OS and OpenVMS systems among others, announced today that it has become a member of the partnership program from Informatica Corporation , the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software.  The move allows …

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Intel Dynamic Power Manager Is Committed To Idc Data Center Innovation

Intel Dynamic Power Manager is committed to IDC data center innovation

Intel Data Center for Dylan Larson said in his speech: Intel’s HP pavilion dv6000 Battery of data center raised, encourage enterprises to make unremitting efforts for innovation.

He mentioned the rapid growth of Internet penetration, the amount of data generated surge, dependent on the data center is growing.

Cloud services growth is expected to continue. In 2010, advertising growth is expected to reach 35%; search business growth expected to reach 40%; online gaming business growth expected to reach 33%.

How do we keep up with demand? Subscribers, broadband and cloud applications through the growth in demand will show a considerable scale. In this regard, the Intel Xeon family of processors, to provide users with higher performance applications, and 40% lower power consumption. One instruction set innovation, with new instructions to upgrade the network to provide application workloads. Work load for many common network to reduce expenditure and to provide a flexible mathematical framework.

To do this, as the wave of Intel, HP, IBM and other partners to provide a wide range of optimized system. Including loading boxes, rack-optimized, compact to the single, dual servers and micro-servers.

Dylan Larson stressed that: “With the increase server power is helpless, Intel Dynamic Power data center managers to achieve intelligent power management, such as the node function by regulating the ratio rack-level, aggregate data and reports trend, the dynamic adjustment power limit value. “To achieve this, Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager provides innovative features, making it the node manager of the rack can provide intelligent performance.

Of course, with the increasing size of the data center all the problems have been magnified. Data presented Chu Zhong Xin Xu Qiu manageability, such as interoperable, Yaoqiu between suppliers to maintain sustained in He Zuo; Di intervention Moshizidong management; Gao reliability to reduce the configuration Cuowu; low margin to reduce power consumption. In response, Intel introduced the Data Centre Management Interface version 1.0, which is an open standard is not privileged, but also for compact data center server management to do optimization.

Intel senior vice president and general manager of software and FUJITSU FPCBP80 Battery business Zhan Rui Ni kicked off yesterday the 2010 IDF (Intel Developer Forum IntelDeveloper Forum) revealed that the product will be based on MeeGo operating system introduced this year. In addition, Intel also introduced a new application release mode AppUp. Similarly, Microsoft also announced yesterday a series of mobile phones, called Kin, highlighting social networking features, market positioning in young consumers. Microsoft has added former Intel WINTEL Union finally the collapse of the mobile Internet era and to opponents.

MeeGo products available in the second half

MeeGo Intel and Nokia to launch a major free operating system for mobile devices, the operating system in smart phones, laptop computers and television and other electronic devices. Zhan Rui Ni said operating system products will be based on MeeGo second half of this year. In addition, Intel also introduced a new application release mode AppUp. The planned facilities include a netbook and tablet computers.

“Mobile Internet growth over the past ten years, MeeGo is an open platform, we do not believe that a closed system is the future trend, an open platform to spur innovation.” Despite the chaotic Warring States Period mobile Internet operating system, but Mr Rui Ni and open platform that is the biggest weapons, while 30% of China’s annual growth in mobile Internet market is several times higher than the PC market.

Apple A ppStore model open source platform to help iPhone was a great success, so Intel has also announced the Atom developers plan and AppUpBeta. Like Apple’s AppStore, AppUp is an application store.

Zhan Rui Ni said in his speech, Intel AppUp has recently been extended to the United States, Canada and 27 European countries, with support for MeeGo and Microsoft Windows. In the Chinese market, MeeGo also gained the support of a number of software partners, Tencent, Neusoft, Jinshan, science and technology is MeeGo Aspire heavyweight partners. In the IDF site, Intel and Tencent signed letter of intent MeeGo software development platform, the future will be full line QQ stationed MeeGo products.

Strong hegemony over Internet Terminal Platform

MeeGo born two months ago, the mobile terminal operating system is in a much stronger pattern of hegemony, in addition to iPhone OS, Symbian, Windows Mobile and RIM, there are raging rookie Google operating system Android.

And various other closed phone operating system, IDF conference, Intel has repeatedly stressed MeeGo not only belongs to Nokia and Intel, and they always leave the door open to other companies within the industry to join them to this camp.

But just as a coin has two sides, opening up the biggest advantages of both L inux is Linux commercial bottlenecks. Linux open source software, the road to commercialization has been difficult, in addition to servers, desktop and mobile phones have only a small niche market. Either lack of funds, either version too difficult to form a joint force.

But the mass response of the leaders of Intel shows attitude, HP pavilion zd8000 battery launched only two months, dozens of equipment manufacturers, operating system vendors, chipset manufacturers, independent software developers and development community and so has joined MeeGo project.

However, the Internet platform war will end very intense. Google in Android, the also introduced the operating system for netbooks Chrome OS, Apple IPHONE OS released a few days ago, will have 100 new features and 1500 kinds of new developers A PI. Intel in mobile phones, tablet PCs and automotive systems, and Microsoft will also be a positive exchange of fire.

Intel’s first quarter results than analysts had expected. Thomson Reuters survey, analysts had expected Intel’s first quarter earnings per share of 38 cents a share, on revenue of 9.8 billion.

In accordance with the geographical division of Intel first-quarter revenues from the Americas 1.906 billion U.S. dollars, a year earlier to 1.51 billion U.S. dollars. Intel’s first quarter revenue from Europe 14.04 billion, a year earlier to 1.273 billion U.S. dollars. Intel’s first quarter revenues from Asia-Pacific 5.888 billion U.S. dollars, a year earlier to 3.647 billion U.S. dollars. Intel’s first quarter revenue from Japan 11.01 billion, a year earlier to 715 million U.S. dollars.

Classified according to sector, Intel PC Client Group net sales for the first quarter of 7.674 billion U.S. dollars, compared to 5.361 billion U.S. dollars; operating profit of 3.143 billion U.S. dollars, compared to 701 million U.S. dollars. Intel Data Center Group net revenues for the first quarter of 1.871 billion U.S. dollars, a year earlier to 1.264 billion U.S. dollars; operating profit of 835 million U.S. dollars, compared with 2.66 billion dollars. Intel’s first quarter group net other operating revenues of 369 million U.S. dollars, compared with 1.49 million; operating loss of 21 million U.S. dollars, compared with an operating loss of 1.53 billion.

Intel expects the second quarter of fiscal year 2010 revenues of 102 million, plus or minus 400 million U.S. dollars; gross margin was 64%, plus or minus two percentage points; operating expenses (R & D, general and administrative) of about 3.1 billion U.S. dollars; stock investment Interest and other income of about zero; depreciation expenses of about 1.1 billion. Thomson Reuters survey, analysts on average expect Intel’s first-quarter revenue 9.8 billion. Intel expects fiscal 2010 gross profit margin was 61%, plus or minus two percentage points, had expected 61%, plus or minus 3 percentage points; operating expenses (R & D, general and administrative) of about 12.4 billion U.S. dollars, plus or minus 100 million dollars, had expected 118 million, plus or minus 100 million U.S. dollars; R & D expenditure is about 6.4 billion U.S. dollars, had expected 62 million; capital expenditure of 48 billion U.S. dollars, plus or minus 100 million IBM ThinkPad X40 Battery. dollars, and had expected flat; depreciation expenses about 44 billion U.S. dollars, plus or minus 100 million U.S. dollars, and had expected to remain unchanged; the second, third and fourth quarter effective tax rate of around 31%.

Power Outages Bother Telemarketing

The telemarketing sector in countries like the Philippines is best with a recurring problem. Power outages have practically crippled the telemarketing services industry in various areas across the country. The power failure lasts for hours, by which time the power back-ups are rendered ineffective. Every telemarketing company that is hit by this sorry state of affairs is looking at the authorities to solve this problem.

Their concern is very basic: power failures shut down computers and phone lines. The answering service facility, along with other call center services, comes to a grinding halt. They miss out on several calls because of the power cuts. They want a stabilized supply of electricity that doesn’t trip so often.

The problem with such problems in a rising BPO sector is that it turns off global clients. They understand business. They wouldn’t like to compromise of their telemarketing services just for the reason of power cuts aborting your procedures. If the problem persists, they will quickly take their telemarketing business to some other destination where such problems are unheard of.

The call center business is ruthless in its efficiency. There are zero margins for error and no one would like to stick to a telemarketing company that has infrastructural problems. With the business outsourcing units in the Philippines, the failure is on the part of the government of the country. They are not being able to provide the call centers with the necessary back-up.

The BPO sector of the Philippines needs to eradicate this problem immediately. There too many factors hanging on the pivot of this one issue. Without proper power to run telemarketing services, the call centers will begin to lose clients and projects. This is the last thing the Filipino call center owners would like at this stage. It’s only been some months when the business process outsourcing sector in the country has started to see a significant upswing.

Now is the time to consolidate on that and make a mark. They would not like the global clientele to know that the telemarketing business in the country is not thriving because of these power cuts. It also reflects poorly on their ability to deal with problems that might crop up. Their administrative skills are under the scanner as well.   

The Filipino BPO market is on the threshold of international recognition. They are receiving recommendations and praises from the telemarketing giants of the developed countries because of excellent telemarketing services. You can see Filipino call center representatives at world meets and forums, discussing and promoting their call centers with characteristic confidence.

While all this is happening for them on the global platform, any telemarketing company will appeal that the hurdles on their way to international fame and recognition be immediately cut out. The rule of business is that the new players have to work double hard to earn the trust of the market. In such a set-up, it’s practically impossible for the call center BPO units here to make telemarketing calls that don’t bring results because they are being subjected to indiscriminate power cuts.