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Zombie Servers: Find and Eliminate Idle Equipment
Executive Summary An estimated 20–30% of data center servers are “zombies”: powered on but performing no productive work, yet consuming 60–70% of their maximum rated
Executive Summary An estimated 20–30% of data center servers are “zombies”: powered on but performing no productive work, yet consuming 60–70% of their maximum rated
Executive Summary Data center monitoring has historically been hard to deploy because facilities equipment vendors built proprietary, poorly documented management protocols that resist integration with
Executive Summary Colocation providers and MSPs require per-customer, rack-level power monitoring that standard enterprise data centers do not need. This granular data supports accurate customer
Measuring PUE with Shared Resources TL;DR: Measuring PUE in data centers that share mechanical resources (such as a campus chilled-water system) requires allocating the shared
PUE in an Imperfect World Last week I started discussing the instrumentation and measurement of PUE when the data center shares resources with other facilities.
Executive Summary Data center equipment uses two primary management interface types: serial (RS232/RS485), which relies on vendor-specific ASCII command protocols and requires physical gateway conversion
Bridging the gap between IoT and Asset Management By Sean Gately Executive Summary Data centers evolved from simple mainframe housing to complex ecosystems requiring
Bridging the gap between IoT and Asset Management TL;DR: The explosion of IoT (projected at 50 billion connected devices) is forcing data centers to evolve
Bridging the gap between IoT and Asset Management Executive Summary The shift to distributed IoT architecture requires a new smart data center infrastructure management (DCIM)
Executive Summary Modius OpenData partnered with Dell Technologies to offer turn-key IoT solution bundles that eliminate deployment complexity for critical infrastructure monitoring. OpenData comes factory-installed