Raritan intros Power IQ 2.0

Raritan introduced a major

release of its award-winning 'Power IQ Energy Management' software

that helps datacenter and lab managers better understand

environmental conditions at the rack, in order to use power and

cooling resources optimally, without compromising on performance.

Power IQ 2.0 provides

'thermal analytics' for monitoring rack temperatures, based on

industry guidelines, including ASHRAE's (American Society of Heating

Refrigerating and Air- Conditioning Engineers) guidelines, that

recommend the upper temperature limit in a datacenter to be increased

by 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit to 80.6 degrees. Power IQ provides a

comprehensive solution to: inform users if a datacenter or lab is

within these recommendations and how much energy could be saved by

increasing temperature to meet these new recommendations; alert users

if temperature exceeds threshold conditions; and provide long-term

trend charts. The solution also enables graceful shutdown of

underutilized Windows and Linux servers. Safely increasing a

datacenter's ambient temperature can generate significant savings.

According to David J. Cappuccio, Managing VP and Chief of Research

for the Infrastructure team, Gartner, "Datacenter managers can

save up to three percent in energy costs for every degree of upward

change in the baseline temperature, known as a set point. The higher

set point means less frequent use of air conditioning, which saves

the energy used to run cooling systems.”

Power IQ 2.0's unique

agent-less approach enables graceful shutdowns and start-ups of

servers connected to any rack power distribution units (PDUs). It

does not require additional software to be loaded on the target

server and leverages standard operation system scripts and commands.

Energy can be saved by scheduling automatic power cycling of an 'IT

device group' when not needed.

Other vendor-agnostic v2.0

features include:

• Power and environmental
  
  health monitoring- Power IQ collects SNMP traps from all supported rack
  
  PDUs and environmental sensors, provides an event browser for sorting
  
  and filtering the event list and sends e-mail notifications for
  
  specified events

• Vendor-agnostic naming-
  
  Easily set or edit rack PDU outlet name, system name, contact name

• Enhanced search-
  
  Enables the use of a partial IT device name or IP to find PDUs or IT
  
  devices

"Datacenter and lab

managers are having difficulty keeping up with the increasing demand

for power. Customers tell me they are running out of power and need a

way to manage this resource more efficiently,” said Sanjay Motwani,

Regional Manager, India and Middle East, Raritan. He further added,

"Power IQ provides them a comprehensive solution to obtain the

most out of their existing power supply and infrastructure. Power IQ

provides the information and control to be more energy-efficient and

find stranded power capacity in areas, such as over cooling and

running underutilized servers."