March 27, 2012
Server Technology Brings a Sentry Power System Umbrella to the PDU Configuration Rain Shower
By Carrie Schmelkin TMCnet Web Editor
When it comes to rack-level power distribution units (PDU), a data center manager doesn’t buy one PDU at a time any more – he or she purchases hundreds or thousands which can make PDU management a fairly cumbersome task.
“What ended up happening is that PDUs, as they became commoditized over the years, look great at a trade show; they look great when you look at the pretty Web interface GUI at a demonstration. But, when you get them home, back to your data center, you realize you are probably never really going to use those individual PDU features,” Mark Harris, vice president of marketing at Server Technology (News - Alert), told TMCnet. “You are going to want to approach your entire data center as one system. You want to manage power for the data center. You don’t want to manage power at the racks or machine level.”
And that’s where Server Technology’s latest innovation, Sentry Power System, comes in. Unveiled earlier this month, Sentry Power System integrates Server Technology’s Sentry family of cabinet PDUs with Sentry Power Manager (SPM) software through Server Technology’s exclusive SNAP technology to create a single system of power... Read More
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