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Fiber Optics – An Unmatched Contender

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Incorporating fiber optic cables in your data center design saves space, lowers costs, and ensures a fast, secure, and polished connection. For many reasons, fiber optic solutions can give your data centers the edge. Save space, lower cost, and ensure fast, secure, and polished connection. Fiber optic cabling is constructed for dependable success with four main layers:

Is Your Data Center Running Out of Space and Power? Optimize It!

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The lifecycles of data centers are getting shorter and shorter. The needs of today’s data centers are much more complex than they were 25-or even five-years ago. As a result, data centers are increasingly challenged to support high density environments often running at full capacity, frequently running out of space and power. Although technology is

What are Secure KVM Switches?

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Secure KVM switches are designed from the ground up as dedicated switching devices with every element conceived to prevent unauthorized access, ensure data isolation, and are optimized for accessing networks at different levels of security; especially useful for government, military, and defense operations. As departments and companies become more reliant on electronic systems, security concerns grow and

What is an iBootBar Power Manager?

Multi-Outlet, Multi-User Remote Reboot with outlet grouping for simultaneous switching! The Dataprobe iBootBar allows you to control each outlet independently from Web, Telnet, SNMP. Access the network plus out-of-band control via serial port and internal modem with both data and DTMF tone dial control. Wherever you are, you are in complete control. iBootBar is available

Sunbird Software Release: Power IQ® DCIM Monitoring 5.0.1

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Sunbird has released a security alert of their Power IQ® DCIM Monitoring 5.0.1 upgrade! As they stated: Read the Full Release This release will provide several security enhancements and improvements including: Important Security Fix for LDAP Authentication Services. Save IP addresses and switch ports with support for up to 8 Raritan PX Intelligent Rack PDUs. Improved visualization

CCS-PRO4: The Next Generation KB/M Switch

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Perfect For: A KVM (Keyboard-Video-Mouse) Switch is great for a user hoping to access multiple different systems from their console (monitor, keyboard and mouse), or a user hoping to access all of their systems remotely, but what do you use if you have multiple systems that you want to monitor and control at the same

5 Key Elements to Consider When Purchasing your Next Rack PDU

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IT requirements drive the need for IT technology. This is true for power distribution as well. These five points highlight some of the decision making process when purchasing your next Rack PDU.   5 Key Purchasing Considerations for a Rack Power Distribution Unit IT requirements drive the need for IT technology. This is true for

NIAP KVM Switch

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What is an NIAP Certified KVM Switch? The NIAP (National Information Assurance Partnership), a partnership between the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) and the NSA (National Security Agency) is responsible for U.S. implementation of the Common Criteria. You can basically think of the NIAP as the overseer of Common Criteria evaluations, making sure

Heavy Metal Thunder!

Data Centers can be noisy places

Recently, I had an IT manager ask me about sound suppression in the data center installation. What could he do that would help with data center noise reduction? Every Data Center has noise, but excessive noise can not only be stressful, it can affect concentration and produce additional work fatigue. Data Center rooms register typically in