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infrastructure, providing valuable insights into the optimal placement of servers and devices within racks, as well as the best way to route network cabling and power connectivity. An interactive visualization dashboard delivers accurate, real-time information on facilities, networks, and IT, along with other tools and processes, helping IT professionals make informed capacity management decisions and accurately track data center assets. The dcTrack software also monitors, tracks, and analyzes the entire power chain, including power loads and environmental data.
“dcTrack excels at managing and visualizing the physical and logical distribution of all assets across multi-vendor and multi-site data center environments, enabling administrators to efficiently manage assets and energy capacity, which helps reduce operating costs and defer capital expenditures,” said James Cerwinski, product manager at Raritan. “Raritan’s dcTrack offers advantages over other DCIM solutions on the market by being both powerful and easy to use. The powerful smart search feature automatically correlates energy, space, and network boundaries, providing data center managers with the answers they need when they need them. Simply enter a server’s make and model, and dcTrack does the rest.”.
The new tools in dcTrack V 2.5 include:
An intelligent Search, Place, and Reserve tool. Quickly find space, power, and network connectivity for IT devices, simplifying capacity planning and change management. Capacity can be reserved by dcTrack for future provisioning of new equipment. It also offers "Best Fit" options for reserving or placing equipment.
Capacity management dashboard. Provides real-time source usage data for improved electrical, cooling, surface, cabinet, cabling, and network capacity planning. Quickly displays capacity in use and, more importantly, how much is available.
Complete power distribution management. dcTrack offers comprehensive power chain management. Power management begins with the UPS power supply, supporting virtually any type of power distribution design. It determines power loads at any point in the circuit path using reduced values and actual readings.
Web API service for ticketing systems (query entry). Integrated with BMC Remedy, LANDesk, and other third-party systems to create seamless workflows through operations, from entry (query) creation to data center deployment. This simplifies device addition and improves asset management accuracy.
About dcTrack:
dcTrack data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software maintains accurate, up-to-the-minute visualizations and granular details of every device, along with its connections across multiple data centers, including servers, networks, and facility elements. It also provides real-time visualizations of data center power consumption, heat dissipation, increased floor space, and rack elevations. dcTrack's simple setup and use workflow and change management capabilities support daily data center management operations and reduce the high costs associated with the decentralized and manual processes involved in data center moves, additions, and changes. dcTrack's auto-discovery engine builds and maintains an up-to-date inventory of physical assets and other data center resources, such as power, eliminating time-consuming and tedious manual data entry for tracking. dcTrack is available as a VMware® virtual appliance containing the dcTrack application software, database, and operating system, simplifying installation and operation. dcTrack is sold as a perpetual license and offers pay-as-you-grow pricing based on the number of racks in a data center.
