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Sunbird’s Models Library release for June is now available: Version 3.141. Download and update to Version 3.141 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 37,000 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? Co...
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Modern data centers are growing in density and complexity as IT devices require more and more power to racks. This can lead to issues with power distribution, cabling, and cooling, and challenges data center managers to keep pace with the ever-increasing demands of IT infrastructure.
To stay ahead of the rising power requirements for critical infrastructure in racks while reducing complexity, many data center managers deploy overhead busways for their power distribution architecture. The benefits of busways can be found in increased space capacity, flexibility, energy efficiency, scalability, modularity, reliability, customizability, and safety. Busways also reduce construction costs, constr...
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According to Gartner, more than 75% of all enterprise-generated data will be created and processed outside of the traditional data center or cloud by 2025. Instead, much of this data will be handled by edge data centers.
Edge data centers are smaller facilities located close to the populations they serve that deliver cloud computing resources and cached content to end users. They typically connect to a larger central data center or multiple data centers. By processing data and services as close to the end user as possible, edge computing allows organizations to reduce latency and improve the customer experience.
Examples of edge data centers include modular data centers fabricated from steel...
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Sunbird’s Models Library release for May is now available: Version 3.140. Download and update to Version 3.140 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 37,000 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? Con...
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Nearly 30% of all unplanned data center outages are caused by environment issues. It’s an unfortunate truth that many data center managers don’t realize the importance of data center environment monitoring until it’s too late and they experience a serious issue themselves.
Given that modern data centers need to be monitored and managed remotely, how do you know what’s going on in your environment when you lack visibility and have minimal onsite personnel? The answer is with a complete remote data center management strategy that includes best practices such as deploying a variety of environment sensors and monitoring, trending, and reporting on the data they collect to improve data center man...
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Data center energy consumption today is so enormous, that if all the data center sites around the world were a country, they would rank as the 5th largest energy consumer globally. Emerging technologies such as big data, IoT, and AI place a high demand on IT resource capacity, and data center professionals are tasked with keeping up with this demand while reducing space, power, and cooling resources to improve efficiency and save money.
Still, green data centers have innovated ways to do more with less energy. Despite the incredible growth in data center demand over the past decade, total data center energy consumption only increased by 6%.
Here are some of the best practices that cutting-e...
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As operational and resource costs increase, more organizations see colocation data centers as an attractive solution to house their IT infrastructure. Colocation facilities provide the power, cooling, and connectivity resources that organizations need at a cost they can afford. However, migrating to a colo can be a risky, time-intensive project that is difficult to execute without following best practices and leveraging data center management software to manage, monitor, and provide visibility to colocation infrastructure.
To learn more, register for our session titled "Colocation Data Center Infrastructure Systems" at Cabling Installation & Maintenance's "Connect 2021: Emerging Applicat...
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Sunbird’s Models Library release for April is now available: Version 3.139. Download and update to Version 3.139 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 37,000 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? C...
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Modern data center environments continue to grow in density and complexity, leading to issues with power distribution, cabling, and cooling. To stay ahead of rising power requirements and reduce complexity, many data center managers deploy overhead busways for their power distribution architecture. Further, by monitoring busway tap boxes with data center management software, data center professionals can more easily improve uptime and increase the capacity utilization of their power resources.
In a recent webinar titled How to increase Uptime and Capacity Utilization with Busway Monitoring, John Berenbrok, Senior Product Manager, Starline and James Cerwinski, VP Product Management, Sunbird S...
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Sunbird’s Models Library release for March is now available: Version 3.138. Download and update to Version 3.138 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 35,000 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? C...
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Power is the most important aspect to be considered for data centers. Most data centers use alternate current (AC) power distribution systems. Recently, however, there has been a growing interest in the industry to explore and utilize direct current (DC) power distribution systems as another option. Leading telecommunication companies like Comcast and Verizon already run their data centers on DC power. There are servers on the market that can operate on both DC and AC power, so it is imperative to make both options available to the data center simultaneously to be ready for the future.
History of AC vs DC Power
In 1800, Thomas Edison invented an electrical distribution system based on dire...
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The value of preventing data center downtime is on the rise. The average outage costs $5,600 per minute but the majority of outages are preventable. At the same time, track busway systems are quickly becoming the solution of choice in data centers for their reliability, flexibility, and safety.
How can data center professionals properly implement busway infrastructure and power monitoring to know before there is an incident and proactively resolve the problem to maintain uptime? What are the best practices for busway metering? How can Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software help?
Join us for our live data center management webinar, How to Improve Uptime with Busway Monitoring t...
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The cost of data center outages can be staggering, and data center professionals report that large outages are becoming more expensive. A recent survey found that 16% of outages in 2020 cost more than $1 million, up from 10% in 2019. 40% of outages cost between $100,000 and $1 million, up from 28% in 2019.
Not only is the cost of downtime rising, but so is the number of preventable outages. In 2019, 60% of downtime incidents were deemed preventable, and that number rose to 75% in 2020. Power and cooling issues were the cause of 50% of outages.
Following Best Data Center Practices
Data center managers need to follow best practices to reduce downtime from these preventable incidents.
Here ar...
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We're very happy that VMware has offically announced Sunbird as a new solution on their VMware Marketplace!
In September 2020 VMware announced their new VMware Marketplace which is a result of a consolidation between VMware Solution Exchange and VMware Cloud Marketplace. The VMware Marketplace enables customers to discover and deploy validated third-party and open-source solutions for VMware products!
For more information on Sunbirds role in the VMware Marketplace, please visit our solution page here
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We're very happy that VMware has offically announced Sunbird as a new solution on their VMware Marketplace!
In September 2020 VMware announced their new VMware Marketplace which is a result of a consolidation between VMware Solution Exchange and VMware Cloud Marketplace. The VMware Marketplace enables customers to discover and deploy validated third-party and open-source solutions for VMware products!
For more information on Sunbirds role in the VMware Marketplace, please visit our solution page here
Sunbird’s Models Library release for June is now available: Version 3.141. Download and update to Version 3.141 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 37,000 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? Co...
Modern data centers are growing in density and complexity as IT devices require more and more power to racks. This can lead to issues with power distribution, cabling, and cooling, and challenges data center managers to keep pace with the ever-increasing demands of IT infrastructure. To stay ahead of the rising power requirements for critical infrastructure in racks while reducing complexity, many data center managers deploy overhead busways for their power distribution architecture. The benefits of busways can be found in increased space capacity, flexibility, energy efficiency, scalability, modularity, reliability, customizability, and safety. Busways also reduce construction costs, constr...
According to Gartner, more than 75% of all enterprise-generated data will be created and processed outside of the traditional data center or cloud by 2025. Instead, much of this data will be handled by edge data centers. Edge data centers are smaller facilities located close to the populations they serve that deliver cloud computing resources and cached content to end users. They typically connect to a larger central data center or multiple data centers. By processing data and services as close to the end user as possible, edge computing allows organizations to reduce latency and improve the customer experience. Examples of edge data centers include modular data centers fabricated from steel...
Sunbird’s Models Library release for May is now available: Version 3.140. Download and update to Version 3.140 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 37,000 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? Con...
Nearly 30% of all unplanned data center outages are caused by environment issues. It’s an unfortunate truth that many data center managers don’t realize the importance of data center environment monitoring until it’s too late and they experience a serious issue themselves. Given that modern data centers need to be monitored and managed remotely, how do you know what’s going on in your environment when you lack visibility and have minimal onsite personnel? The answer is with a complete remote data center management strategy that includes best practices such as deploying a variety of environment sensors and monitoring, trending, and reporting on the data they collect to improve data center man...
Data center energy consumption today is so enormous, that if all the data center sites around the world were a country, they would rank as the 5th largest energy consumer globally. Emerging technologies such as big data, IoT, and AI place a high demand on IT resource capacity, and data center professionals are tasked with keeping up with this demand while reducing space, power, and cooling resources to improve efficiency and save money. Still, green data centers have innovated ways to do more with less energy. Despite the incredible growth in data center demand over the past decade, total data center energy consumption only increased by 6%. Here are some of the best practices that cutting-e...
As operational and resource costs increase, more organizations see colocation data centers as an attractive solution to house their IT infrastructure. Colocation facilities provide the power, cooling, and connectivity resources that organizations need at a cost they can afford. However, migrating to a colo can be a risky, time-intensive project that is difficult to execute without following best practices and leveraging data center management software to manage, monitor, and provide visibility to colocation infrastructure. To learn more, register for our session titled "Colocation Data Center Infrastructure Systems" at Cabling Installation & Maintenance's "Connect 2021: Emerging Applicat...
Sunbird’s Models Library release for April is now available: Version 3.139. Download and update to Version 3.139 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 37,000 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? C...
Modern data center environments continue to grow in density and complexity, leading to issues with power distribution, cabling, and cooling. To stay ahead of rising power requirements and reduce complexity, many data center managers deploy overhead busways for their power distribution architecture. Further, by monitoring busway tap boxes with data center management software, data center professionals can more easily improve uptime and increase the capacity utilization of their power resources. In a recent webinar titled How to increase Uptime and Capacity Utilization with Busway Monitoring, John Berenbrok, Senior Product Manager, Starline and James Cerwinski, VP Product Management, Sunbird S...
Sunbird’s Models Library release for March is now available: Version 3.138. Download and update to Version 3.138 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 35,000 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? C...
Power is the most important aspect to be considered for data centers. Most data centers use alternate current (AC) power distribution systems. Recently, however, there has been a growing interest in the industry to explore and utilize direct current (DC) power distribution systems as another option. Leading telecommunication companies like Comcast and Verizon already run their data centers on DC power. There are servers on the market that can operate on both DC and AC power, so it is imperative to make both options available to the data center simultaneously to be ready for the future. History of AC vs DC Power In 1800, Thomas Edison invented an electrical distribution system based on dire...
The value of preventing data center downtime is on the rise. The average outage costs $5,600 per minute but the majority of outages are preventable. At the same time, track busway systems are quickly becoming the solution of choice in data centers for their reliability, flexibility, and safety. How can data center professionals properly implement busway infrastructure and power monitoring to know before there is an incident and proactively resolve the problem to maintain uptime? What are the best practices for busway metering? How can Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software help? Join us for our live data center management webinar, How to Improve Uptime with Busway Monitoring t...
The cost of data center outages can be staggering, and data center professionals report that large outages are becoming more expensive. A recent survey found that 16% of outages in 2020 cost more than $1 million, up from 10% in 2019. 40% of outages cost between $100,000 and $1 million, up from 28% in 2019. Not only is the cost of downtime rising, but so is the number of preventable outages. In 2019, 60% of downtime incidents were deemed preventable, and that number rose to 75% in 2020. Power and cooling issues were the cause of 50% of outages. Following Best Data Center Practices Data center managers need to follow best practices to reduce downtime from these preventable incidents. Here ar...
We're very happy that VMware has offically announced Sunbird as a new solution on their VMware Marketplace! In September 2020 VMware announced their new VMware Marketplace which is a result of a consolidation between VMware Solution Exchange and VMware Cloud Marketplace. The VMware Marketplace enables customers to discover and deploy validated third-party and open-source solutions for VMware products! For more information on Sunbirds role in the VMware Marketplace, please visit our solution page here