Raritan's Power IQ Energy Management Software Talks to More Enterprise Systems and Manages More Data Center Equipment
New Release is also Certified VMware-Ready, and Supports 5,000 PDUs and Web Services Integration
Auckland New Zealand (January 14, 2010) – To improve operational and energy efficiency in data centers, Raritan today announced systems integration capabilities to its Power IQ™ data center energy management software and
support for more data center equipment. Power IQ helps companies track and analyse energy usage down to the individual
IT device level and implement energy-saving actions from a central power console.
Power IQ's new Web Services APIs -- Power Control API and Configuration Item API -- enable customers to integrate Power
IQ with their existing enterprise systems, such as HP Asset Management, as well as build custom tools. A customer, for
example, can write Web service scripts to automate power control to support their unique operational needs. "Power IQ
enables customer to manage their data centers smarter," said Gary Hull, Country Director, Australia and New Zealand at
Raritan. "Now with the new Web Services APIs, we provide customers a way to implement their creative ideas to manage
their enterprise's power."
At North Carolina-based WebAssign, for example, Power IQ is helping the company reduce costs and manage its data center
with less resources. "Power IQ allows me to manage and forecast easily my power needs in the data center for optimal
efficiency and uptime," said Matt Pusateri, Systems Administrator at WebAssign, the leading provider of online
instructional tools for faculty and students. "I can also look in one place to obtain energy usage reports and to do
firmware upgrades of our Raritan intelligent rack PDUs -- rather than having to visit each PDU individually.
Additionally, the centralised aggregation of my power consumption will be invaluable in planning future data centers,
and analysing future power needs."
Power IQ -- which collects and analyses energy data of IT equipment connected to Raritan and third-party
Ethernet-enabled intelligent rack power distribution units (PDUs) -- now supports APC and Liebert UPSs. "Not all IT
equipment is connected to rack PDUs," explains Hull. "Some equipment, such as routers and disk arrays, is connected to
rack UPSs or directly to floor UPSs. Power IQ now enables a UPS to be a source for power data collection, which helps
provide a more complete picture of IT power consumption in a lab or data center."
The new release of Power IQ also supports deployments up to 5,000 rack PDUs, making it the most scalable Energy
Management Virtual Appliance on the market. In addition to collecting data from Dominion PX’s environmental sensors for
analysing rack temperature and humidity information, PowerIQ now collects data from ServerTech rack PDU probes and
NetBotz. Power IQ also gathers power information on IT equipment connected to 'not-so-smart' PDUs using Raritan's
Dominion PX-3000 inline power meters, which are designed to be used in conjunction with dumb rack PDUs to provide
comprehensive strip-level metering on all types of IT equipment.
Power IQ recently achieved VMware certification and is designated “VMware Ready." Many customers deploy Power IQ as a
virtual appliance because it helps save rack space, energy and hardware costs. Power IQ is also offered as a hardware
appliance.
Enterprise-wide data collection at the device level enables Power IQ's analytics to calculate and chart active power,
energy consumption, cost and carbon footprint for servers and other IT devices. Power information is presented in
user-configurable graphs and reports that can be accessed from anywhere with Power IQ’s Web-based dashboard. Graphs can
easily depict which devices are consuming the most energy, whether power conservation efforts are working, and if there
are hot spots or over-cooled areas. Remedial steps - such as scheduling devices to turn off for periods when not needed
or increasing a server room's ambient temperature gradually - can be made easily using Power IQ's remote power
management capabilities
Power IQ received key industry recognition recently with a CRN Tech Innovator Runner-Up Award in the Business Software
Enterprise category.
About Raritan (Raritan.com.au)
Raritan is a proven innovator of power management, infrastructure management, KVM and serial solutions for data centers
of all sizes. In more than 50,000 locations worldwide, Raritan's award-winning hardware and software solutions --
including intelligent PDUs, energy management software, KVM-over-IP and Serial-over-IP access products -- provide IT and
facility directors, managers and administrators with the control they need to increase power management efficiency,
improve data center productivity and enhance branch office operations. Based in Somerset, N.J., Raritan has offices
worldwide serving 76 countries. For more information, visit www.raritan.com.au
Raritan is an active member of the Green Grid, Climate Savers Computing Initiative, and the Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design associations. The company was recently recognised by the EPA for its contribution to the agency's
data center initiative.
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