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Paul Mott , Global Technical Product Manager of Power Solutions at
Raritan , tells us how the company is helping endusers drive automation in the data centre , offering ‘ Swiss Army Knife ’ adaptability with its Smart Rack Controllers solution and providing the ‘ godsend ’ of remote monitoring to prevent downtime .
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Can you tell us what challenges data centre operators are facing when it comes to tracking their many devices ?
The traditional approach using hand scanners and things of that nature to track devices throughout an organisation has been used for a long time and there ' s nothing wrong with it .
The only challenge is there is a lot of human intervention that needs to happen . Humans are imperfect beings so any time a human touches something , there ' s always that opportunity for an error to occur .
What we ' re seeing is a kind of shift towards a more automated way to manage and track assets and you need to consider some of the value that you can get out of that – things like being able to do widescale audits very quickly without deploying a whole team of people into various enterprise locations to be able to track things , and being able to do it remotely from a console that could be somewhere across an ocean or on the opposite side of the world .
So , there are tons of advantages to re-evaluating the traditional way that an organisation may track its assets , although it ' s still fundamentally a key aspect of a lot of organisations . There ' s opportunity for optimisation moving forward .
How have the data centre management requirements changed over recent years ?
Primarily from the power side of things , we ' re seeing an increase in density pretty much across the board and it just continues to www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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