Raritan's dcTrack Wins a SearchDataCenter.com 'Product of the Year' Award in Data Center Infrastructure Category
Raritan
announced its
dcTrack™ 2.2 software won a TechTarget SearchDataCenter.com 2009
"Product of the Year" award. A panel of judges selected dcTrack 2.2
from a number of products submitted for consideration in the Data
Center Infrastructure award category, which encompasses backup power,
data center cooling and infrastructure support products. The awards
were judged by the SearchDataCenter.com editorial staff, in conjunction
with a team of users, industry experts, analysts, and consultants.
Winners
of the SearchDataCenter.com 2009 "Products of the Year" awards
exemplify innovation, performance and value. Products were also scored
based on ease of integration into existing environments, functionality,
and ease of use and manageability.
According
to SearchDataCenter.com, dcTrack management software addresses the
dynamic nature of today's enterprise data centers, where there is "a
multi-disciplinary jumble of different systems and business units that
need to work together, but rarely speak the same language. The
facilities and IT silos each have their own systems for managing data
center capacity and configurations." The publication added that "many
of the tools available today, such as CMDBs, do not drill down deep
into the infrastructure layer in the data center, including the
provisioning of network, cabling, and power connectivity to the servers
and other devices in the data center. They don't provide IT users the
ability to visualize their data centers down to granular levels."
In presenting the silver "Product of the Year" award to Raritan, SearchDataCenter.com said: "Raritan's
dcTrack 2.2 gives data center managers visibility to all domains in the
data center down to very granular levels. dcTrack can provision new
systems and servers accurately and reliably. For example, when a new
server is about to be added into the data center, before physically
installing it, IT professionals can plan this activity in dcTrack by
configuring the server in dcTrack, assigning it to available rack
space, connecting to available structured cabling patch panels,
connecting it to available network resources, and, most importantly,
connecting to available power resources. dcTrack can verify not only
that the power socket is available, but also that power is available at
every step in the power chain up to the UPS or the source feeding the
power into the data center. Once you are able to pass through the
planning stage, you can begin physically installing and connecting the
server by using the built-in change management system to issue requests
and work orders."
The
judges also said the vision associated with dcTrack of "getting IT and
Facilities departments on the same page" is a desirable direction for
the industry.
"As
recipient of a 2009 'Product of the Year' award, we are delighted with
this prestigious industry recognition for dcTrack and its management
technologies that help IT and facilities organizations keep pace with
the growth and changes in their data centers with limited staff," said Khaled Nassoura, General Manager, Green Data Center Initiative at Raritan.
"dcTrack excels at providing insight into the relationships among all
the parts in today's complex data center environments, helping to
improve capacity planning and utilization, support change management,
and drive costs out of data center operations. The result is a single
version of the truth of all your data center assets that enables you to
direct your finite resources towards proactive management."