Environmental Monitoring Channel Feature

As Data Center Monitoring Companies Look to Expand, the Need for Environmental Monitoring Units Burgeons

By Rajani Baburajan
TMCnet Contributor

Opengate Data Systems, a provider of data center power and infrastructure solutions, announced expansion in Silicon Valley with the opening of a new office in Palo Alto (News - Alert), California. The company has also announced that Wenda Puzzo, regional sales manager for mountain and West Coast Regions, will head the new office in Palo Alto.

"We're providing intelligent power, cooling and automation solutions that allow our customers to deploy more IT in data centers, high-density racks and in small spaces," said Puzzo. "Opengate solutions allow the integration of critical infrastructure processes; reducing complexity, equipment capital and operating costs.”

Opengate’s Containment Cooling and Unified Cooling Systems are known to deliver “zero-waste data center cooling” by enabling real-time IT demand changes. At the core of Opengate’s cooling solutions is the SwitchAir family, which is marked by its ability to deliver cool air to top-of-rack and larger core switches.

 Another solution, Opengate's SiteView DCIM package, is used to manage all Opengate solutions and other infrastructure devices to get a complete view of the performance and health of the facility.

 The new office will cater to Opengate customers in the region that are looking for solutions to maximize data center utilization and operational efficiency. The new office has the facility to provide solutions to high tech facilities, hospitals, educations institutions, government organizations and other mission critical facilities.

 "Opengate delivers data center solutions that maximize power, cooling, and operational efficiency by reducing initial capital expenditures and providing a scalable approach to maximizing data center computing," said Matt Koukl, sales director of Opengate Data Systems, in a statement.

As companies look to make their data center efficiency and cooling solutions available to the masses, companies ought to consider the benefits of environmental monitoring units, which can keep tabs on the data center to make sure things like power, temperature and humidity remain within given thresholds.

Fortunately for IT personnel out there, there is a pack out there ready to bring environmental monitoring strategies to the data center – ITWatchDogs. For over a decade, ITWatchDogs has manufactured climate and power monitoring systems enabling administrators to monitor server room conditions through a Web browser with a live video feed and current measurements of temperature, humidity, air flow, light, sound, power, water leakage and door position, showing current and historical data through HTTPS and providing SNMP/Email alarming under abnormal conditions.

For more on ITWatchDogs and what to monitor in the data center, click here.