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By Sunbird
Are you prepared for the next leap in AI hardware? According to NVIDIA, the new GB200 NVL72 is poised to “supercharge next-generation AI and accelerating computing.” Highlights of the GB200 NVL72 include it being 25 times more energy efficient than the H100 and 18 times faster data processing compared to CPU. Data centers worldwide are striving to keep up with the AI surge and must assess whether their current facilities can handle the high-power demands of the infrastructure.
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By Sunbird
Maintaining optimal temperatures in data centers has become increasingly important as power densities surge, global temperature climb, and energy consumption rises. These challenges make data center temperature monitoring more essential than ever.
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By Sunbird
Did you know that an average data center can consume around 300,000 gallons of water every day? With data center sustainability being a top priority for many organizations around the world, it is important to remember that sustainability is not just about decreasing the use of fossil fuels and lowering carbon emissions but reducing water consumption as well. However, according to Uptime Institute, only 43% of data centers collect data on their water usage for corporate sustainability purposes.
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By Sunbird
Data centers support everything from online transactions and streaming services to enterprise IT infrastructure and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI). As technology continues to evolve rapidly, so do the operational demands placed on data centers. Staying ahead requires understanding the key trends shaping the future and adapting strategies accordingly. In this blog post, we’ll explore what may lie ahead for data center operations.
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By Sunbird
Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is a metric for measuring the overall energy efficiency of a data center facility. It is calculated by dividing the total amount of energy consumed by the facility by the energy used specifically by the IT equipment. This metric is useful to data center managers because optimizing for it can lead to better energy efficiency, lower operational costs, reduced environmental impact, and support regulatory compliance and certification requirements.
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By Sunbird
Data centers are among the largest consumers of energy worldwide, accounting for up to 3% of global electricity consumption, a figure expected to rise with increasing demand for computing power and services. Energy consumption is a main concern in the data center industry as managers struggle to find ways to improve overall efficiency and environmental sustainability amidst the green wave of new reporting and operating regulations.
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By Sunbird
In a time where sustainability is a critical concern, data centers play a pivotal role in shaping the future of environmental responsibility. Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is a core metric in assessing the energy efficiency of data centers. But how exactly does PUE relate to sustainability, and what role does it play in the broader context of ecological responsibility?
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By Sunbird
On July 19, 2024, a major IT disaster struck when a CrowdStrike update caused widespread chaos. CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm, inadvertently pushed a faulty “sensor configuration update” for its Falcon Sensor software. This update caused 8.5 million Windows devices to crash. The impact was severe, affecting airlines, banking systems, and healthcare networks, and the recovery process was laborious, requiring manual intervention for impacted devices.
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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
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
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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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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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.
Experience the World’s Best DCIM Software Voted #1 by Customers.