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."