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By Sunbird
Network closets, often referred to as IDF closets or telecommunications closets, are small yet vital spaces that house important networking equipment, acting as the hubs that connect various parts of an organization's IT infrastructure. Despite their significance, network closets are often overlooked and undermanaged. Poorly managed network closets can result in network downtime, reduced efficiency, and increased maintenance costs.
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By Sunbird
Leveraging data to enable more informed data center power management is critical for maintaining uptime, increasing energy efficiency, increasing power capacity utilization, and reducing costs. Understanding which power metrics to monitor is the first step towards smarter data center operations.
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By Sunbird
As the demand for digital services grows exponentially, so does the need for colocation data center space. However, colocation providers are unable to keep up with this rapidly growing need resulting in limited space available for rent and skyrocketing prices. According to CBRE, colocation rates have jumped from 14.5% in 2022 to 18.6% in 2023 to a record $163.44 per kW/month due to the restricted supply of colo space.
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By Sunbird
We are thrilled to congratulate Türk Telekom for their outstanding achievement in winning the DCIM/DC Management Innovation of the Year award at the DCS Awards 2024. This recognition is a testament to their exceptional commitment to innovation, customer satisfaction, and operational excellence in the data center industry. The DCS Awards recognize success stories, technological advancements, and significant contributions in the data center industry.
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By Sunbird
Data center environmental sensors helps data center managers maintain uptime, increase energy efficiency, and remotely manage their data centers. From temperature and humidity to other parameters like airflow, these sensors can be paired with modern data center management software to provide real-time insights and alerts, enabling proactive management and rapid response to potential issues. There are many types of sensors and vendors on the market.
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By Sunbird
Investing in Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software is critical for modern businesses to efficiently manage their data center resources. Without DCIM software, organizations lack comprehensive visibility into their data center infrastructure, making it challenging to identify and address issues promptly, leading to potential service disruptions.
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By Sunbird
We’re proud to announce the general availability of Power IQ® 9.1, the latest version of Sunbird’s DCIM Monitoring software. This release includes exciting new features including load shift detection, enhanced Raritan and Server Technology bulk firmware update, and residual current monitoring (RCM) Type B.
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By Sunbird
In recent years, sustainability has become a top priority for industries worldwide, and the data centre sector is no exception. As governments strive to reduce carbon footprints and mitigate climate change, regulatory directives such as the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) are playing a crucial role in reshaping how data centres operate and manage their environmental impact.
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By Sunbird
Data centers are the backbone of our increasingly interconnected world. They power everything from streaming services to AI, handling vast amounts of data every second. However, this technological advancement comes at a cost, with energy consumption being a significant concern. In fact, data center energy consumption is forecasted to double by 2026. As we venture further into 2024, it is important to review some of the key trends around energy consumption in data centers.
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By Sunbird
It’s getting more expensive to rent space in colocation data centers. According to CBRE, colocation rates are up 18.6% year-over-year to a record $163.44 per kW/month due to limited supply and strong demand. Average Asking Rental Rate with Y-o-Y % Change for Primary Markets *Rental rates are quoted asking rates for 250-500 kW at N+1/Tier III requirements. Image Source: CBRE Research, CBRE Data Center Solutions, H2 2023.
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By Sunbird
Sunbird's second gen DCIM software provides easy, fast and complete connectivity management with automatic network diagrams, 3D, Mesh, and Tier views of cable infrastructure, including active and passive components.
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By Sunbird
Sunbird’s dcTrack DCIM Operations software provides data center capacity management that’s easy, fast, and complete.
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By Sunbird
Sunbird’s dcTrack DCIM Operations software provides data center capacity management that’s easy, fast, and complete.
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By Sunbird
DCIM software is a new class of software that gives data center operators the ability to run efficient data center operations and improve data center infrastructure planning and design. It typically replaces Excel, Visio, and home grown databases. DCIM software can bridge information across organizational domains – Data Center Ops, Facilities, and IT to maximize utilization of the data center.
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By Sunbird
Sunbird’s dcTrack DCIM Operations software provides data center capacity management that’s easy, fast, and complete.
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By Sunbird
DCIM solutions can prove to be an extremely valuable business tool, but not all DCIM solutions are created equal.
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By Sunbird
See how easy it is to integrate ServiceNow with Sunbird's dcTrack software. dcTrack integrates easily with your existing management systems, such as ticket systems, CMDB, or asset systems to help you manage assets, change requests, and work orders more accurately. Start tracking the real-time status of all work activities and improve the productivity and efficiency of data center operations staff today.
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By Sunbird
Sunbird’s dcTrack DCIM Operations software provides data center asset management that’s fast, easy, and complete. Get actionable insights from zero-configuration dashboards and reports, see details for every asset in your data center, visually search for assets on your 3D floor map, create secure, shareable views for data collaboration, automatically create cabinet elevations, and more!
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By Sunbird
See your entire data center floor with Sunbird's DCIM software. Quickly view cabinet capacity reports ( space, weight, power, inlet temperatures), cabinet elevations and equipment names (text and images), and use the cabinet inspector to see cabinet level details. 3D visualizations allow you to rotate, pan and zoom your entire data center floor, isolate and view a row of cabinets, see sensor readings, and even view cabinet details with x-ray vision. Thermal map details allow you to view the top, middle and bottom of cabinets and help you manage your data center easier and faster.
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By Sunbird
Sunbird’s dcTrack DCIM Operations software provides data center business intelligence and visual analytics that are easy, fast, and complete.
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By Sunbird
Whether you are downsizing your infrastructure within a single room or eliminating half of your data center sites, a data center consolidation is a complex, risk-prone project. Fortunately, you can mitigate many of the mistakes and unwelcome surprises that even the most experienced data center professionals find derailing their consolidation.
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By Sunbird
The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a "new normal," and data center professionals must adapt to keep up with the issues of today while maintaining uptime and business continuity. New challenges include an increased demand on infrastructure with a higher potential for outages, more time pressure on projects, and less staff onsite resulting in a more difficult environment for collaboration, planning new infrastructure and services, and performing changes and maintenance. Data center managers must develop a comprehensive remote data center management strategy to find success.
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By Sunbird
Modern data center managers are under constant pressure to do more with less while simultaneously being tasked with maximizing uptime and optimizing for efficiency and capacity utilization. In today's ever-changing data center environment, insights from data provide a critical competitive advantage to help tackle these challenges.
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By Sunbird
Many data center migration teams try to mitigate some of the risks and avoid unwelcome surprises through detailed planning and following best practices. However, even with these efforts, data center migrations are so complex that some things still fall through the cracks. In this eBook, we've compiled a list of proven tips based on our experiences and those of our customers when dealing with data center moves to help data center managers tackle often-overlooked challenges and see success-before, during, and after the move.
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By Sunbird
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.
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By Sunbird
Data center cable management is often considered a problem reserved for network engineering teams, but bad cable design can wreak havoc across your entire enterprise.
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Sunbird Software is changing the way data centers are being managed. With a focus on real user scenarios for real customer problems, we help data center operators manage tasks and processes faster and more efficiently than ever before, while saving costs and improving availability.
Sunbird is ahead of the curve when it comes to second-generation DCIM. While other DCIM software providers are charging for every module, our focus on real customer problems has enabled us to overcome the pain points of legacy DCIM tools in our elegant, modern software. We refine our features and build our roadmap based on feedback from our users, so there’s no bloatware, no additional modules to purchase—simply fast, easy, and complete DCIM software that just works.
Full-Circle Capabilities:
- Asset: Accurately track all assets across all global data centers.
- Capacity: Quickly see space, power, network connectivity, and cooling capacity.
- Change: Manage, validate, and report on change requests and work orders.
- Energy: Boost energy efficiency, reduce costs, and drive energy-saving initiatives.
- Environment: Boost energy efficiency, reduce costs, and drive energy-saving initiatives.
- Power: Reduce downtime and find stranded capacity with complete power monitoring.
- Visualization: See 3D views that display everything from a bird’s-eye view of the data center floor.
- Security: Secure cabinets with electronic door locks, auditing, surveillance, and role-based permissions.
- BI & Analytics: Explore zero-configuration dashboards and visual analytics that work right out of the box.
- Connectivity: Manage power and network connectivity with visual trace routes, cable measurements, and port connectivity.
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