How to Maintain Visibility & Control at the IT edge.

 

 

More companies than ever before are looking to save on IT operational costs by outsourcing their IT Infrastructure and focus on their core businesses. Colocation, cloud and hybrid systems are becoming the norm and being leveraged for their scalability, availability and redundancy. As the adoption of this technology grows and applications and hardware are pushed out to the cloud, the IT Edge is becoming the most critical point of many business models.

Maintaining visibility and control is no longer a luxury, but a necessity to ensure the competitive nature of the business in the market place. With the growth of the IoT (Internet of Things) it will soon become impossible for businesses to deal with or absorb the impact of network and data center downtime.

These demands placed on companies due to the digital transformation of the world, call for a solid and dependable IT Edge solution. These solutions will have to bring to the forefront of IT planning, and IT commissioning, both accessibility and security.

Here are the top considerations for keeping pace with the transformation:

1.    Security and Accessibility

2.    Server and Serial device management

3.    IT Edge availability

4.    Out of Band management

5.    Cellular fail over and redundancy

6.    Onsite expertise and IT services

7.    Consolidated IT rollouts and ease of purchase

8.    Single pane software for asset management

9.    Software monitoring and alarms

10. Data center capacity and power planning

11. Consistency across branches

12. A low MTTR (Mean time to Repair)

The driving factors of cloud computing, mobile computing and IoT are changing the landscape of the digital information age and must be matched with solutions that address these concerns.

Ask us about our Smart Solutions offerings which address these concerns and will enable you to make this transition easy.

10 Advantages of Emerson's Smart Rack PDUs

In the world of power management selecting the right product can sometimes prove to be difficult, but in the PDU market place the choice has never been simpler to make.

Emerson Network Power’s MPH2 is the most intelligent, high-availability line of managed rack PDUs. They offer remote monitoring and control capabilities as well as environmental input options, with multiple power input selections and output configurations along with best in class cost and time saving features.

10 Advantages of the MPH2 PDU Series from Emerson

1. Lowest PDU power consumption in the industry of all switched rack PDU’s and they feature bi-stable relays which are the most energy efficient in the market.
2. They leverage the Mass configuration tool for firmware upgrades and alarm management which allows the user to save time by changing the configuration of multiple units at one time.
3. MPH2s have one of the highest temperature ratings in the market. Their ceiling 60 degrees Celsius will allow you to run higher temperatures in the rack in order to optimize cooling and thermal systems without impacting hardware fans or power systems.
4. Accuracy on the MPH2 PDU is unparalleled +/- 1% which is great for billing third parties. Most other product offerings only have a +/- factor of 3-5%
5. Emerson’s PDUs can be daisy chained through the BD monitor and be controlled by one IP address and if used with the UMG up to 160 PDUs can be controlled by one IP. This is great if you pay for every IP used in a Colocation environment.
6. Features locking receptacles for C19 and C13 and can also take the standard cables as well and works with locking sleeves.
7. The PDUs have low profile circuit breakers which are great when you need to swap out hardware in a rack. This helps with the prevention of nuisance breaker tripping.
8. Comprehensive alarming including notification of overloaded branch circuits allows for pro-active environment for maintaining critical systems with threshold and alarm set-points.
9. They can be pre-packaged and pre-configured in the rack or cabinet at the factory which speeds up site installation and supports Emerson’s new focus of “Just make it Easy.”
10. Great inventory. Emerson’s operations are based in the US and they have been expanding their inventory levels and will have approximately 1300 different SKUs in stock by the end of July. They also have Canadian warehouses that will allow for quick and easy site delivery.
11. These features, combined with Emerson’s superior support, software monitoring, service offerings, and feet on the street make the choice of PDUs easy to make.

Not convinced? Here are the typical savings that can be achieved in a PDU implementation

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