Emerson helps customers get a handle on power and cooling

Servers This newsletter is sponsored by IBM Server and Storage Power/Cooling Trends. Discover the latest trends in power and cooling and see how IBM innovations, like Cool Blue(tm) technology, are helping companies reduce costs and improve efficiency. Download the white paper Network World's Servers Newsletter, 06/21/07 Emerson helps customers get a handle on power and cooling By Jennifer Mears Power and cooling continue to be big issues as systems become smaller and more powerful, so I’d guess that most data center managers are looking for easy, effective ways to keep tabs on power demands and cooling needs. Emerson Network Power says it has a product that will help companies do that. The company introduced the Liebert vEM-14 last week. The nice thing about the vEM-14 is that it is a network-enabled device, which means that systems can be remotely monitored from any Web-enabled computer. The other nice thing is that the device combines environmental monitoring with power management so users can prevent overheating and power overload with just one piece of hardware. The vEM-14 gives users a comprehensive view of the conditions within a rack. It monitors environmental conditions such as heat and humidity and it also provides power management capabilities. From servers to storage: Virtualization saves It's touted as one of the fastest and easiest ways to better manage and control your infrastructure. Download this guide today and see how network IT execs are making virtualization pay off in the real world; discover the 8 virtualization gotchas you need to know; and much more. Click here to download. The 1U vEM-14 has four sensors inputs, as well as built-in temperature and humidity sensors, 10 dry-contact points and two serial ports to manage power strips. Users can set acceptable levels of power usage and heat output, for example, and then set paging or e-mail notifications based on different levels of seriousness when those levels are exceeded from high critical to low critical. The device can send data to Liebert Nform monitoring software or to other network management systems using SNMP. Get more details on the vEM-14 here. And let me know how you keep tabs on environmental conditions and power usage in your data center.   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

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