"Rittal - the System"
Data centres from a single source.
Secure, available and energy-efficient IT services are only possible with a seamless interaction of software, hardware and IT infrastructure.
"Rittal - the System" is the new platform the data centre specialist is presenting in a bid to shorten the path to turnkey data centres greatly. Just like a set of building bricks, individually matched components can be fitted together and combined with consulting and services.
In 2011, energy efficiency remains one of the most important data centre issues. As before, many operators lack adequate tools for effectively recording each component's consumption and for efficiently allocating the available IT resources.
Linking IT equipment (servers, storage, etc) and the IT infrastructure to climate control and power distribution represents a major problem. Without this interlinking, no continuous data centre optimisation is possible.
Through the integration of the energy management solution from Rittal in the IBM Active Energy Manager data centre, operators will be able to record the power consumption of their individual IT components in future, and also assign each of them to infrastructure services.
The interaction of diagnosis, management
Through an interface, the CMC-TC forwards these and any other relevant parameters to the IBM Active Energy Manager. The monitoring capabilities of IBM's software enables data centre operators to make an all-encompassing trend analyses and evaluations, and optimise their equipment's energy consumption.
IBM Deutschland Research & Development has been employing the newly developed solution in its own data centres since December 2009, and has so been able to cut the energy needed for cooling considerably. At Cebit, the two companies will be exhibiting the solution together for the first time at Rittal's stand in Hall 11 (E06).
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Rittal (South Africa) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rittal & Co. KG in Germany. The company is one of the world's leading system suppliers for housing and enclosure technologies, power distribution systems, system climate control and IT infrastructure. Customers from all sectors of industry, from mechanical and plant engineering as well as from the IT and telecoms sector, use system solutions from Rittal.
Its comprehensive product range also includes complete solutions for modular and energy-efficient data centres: from innovative security concepts for data systems (formerly known as Litcos) to physical data and system security for IT infrastructures (formerly known as Lampertz). The leading software providers Eplan and Mind8 - Rittal subsidiaries - supplement the Rittal portfolio with inter-disciplinary engineering solutions.
Founded in 1961, Rittal is now active globally, with 19 hi-tech production sites, 63 subsidiaries, 150 sales and logistics centres and more than 70 agencies. With 11 000 employees worldwide, Rittal is the largest company of the Friedhelm Loh Group based in Haiger, Germany. The group's entire workforce exceeds 12 000. More information is available at www.rittal.com.
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