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Raritan's Build-to-Order Program Enables Customers to Custom Design Intelligent Power Management
Equipment for Better Data Center Fit
SOMERSET, N.J., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
Raritan today unveiled a Build-to-Order program that enables customers to custom design intelligent rack
Power Distribution Units (PDU) to best meet their data center needs. Raritan intelligent PDUs collect useful
energy information in data centers -- including real-time rack-level and outlet-level power information and
environmental data, such as temperature and humidity.
To meet the complex and unique power requirements of data center equipment racks, the Raritan Build-to-
Order program enables customers to select PDU options in a number of categories -- such as plug type, input
cord length, outlet type and number of outlets, voltage, current, and single-phase or three-phase Wye or Delta
configurations.
"We are able to meet all of our customers' needs through Raritan's Build-to-Order process," says Jami M.
Moore at JEM Computer, a Raritan partner. "We can now satisfy almost any customer requirement and
configuration, including voltage, amps, plugs, receptacles, and form factor. One of our customers, for example,
needed a mixture of C19, C13 and 5-15R outlets in their PDU configuration in order to power their blade
servers, 1U servers and other IT equipment within their rack mount enclosures."
"The Build-to-Order program is a game changer," adds David Wood, Director of Operations & Quality -
Raritan Power Business. "Last year, Raritan's Power Business was offering 20 PDU SKUs that were fulfilled
by inventory stocked in our warehouses. Today, we are offering an additional 130 tested and UL/CE certified
parts via Build-to-Order fulfillment."
According to Wood, the Build-to-Order capability has helped streamline Raritan's supply chain and
manufacturing processes -- benefiting customers, reseller partners and the company. "Our Build-to-Order
process requires our engineering teams to simplify designs and increase configurability by developing
reusable building blocks in product design. As a result, manufacturing intervals have been reduced and factory
responsiveness has increased, enabling us to get custom products to our customers quickly. Raritan's reseller
partners benefit by having the broadest portfolio of intelligent rack PDUs to offer their customers."
Raritan's award-winning intelligent PDUs, sold under the Dominion(R) PX brand, provide unique power
information to help answer key data center questions, such as 'where servers should be placed for optimal
efficiency,' and 'which rack has available capacity.' Customers have a better understanding of how much and
how their data centers consume energy and, as a result, can take steps to improve efficiency -- and track
improvements.
About Raritan's Intelligent Rack PDUs
Raritan's intelligent rack PDU portfolio is the largest in the industry and includes single-phase, three-phase,
outlet-metered, outlet-switched, and inline power meters to meet the needs of diverse IT environments.
Environments can range from server rooms with legacy equipment and basic power strips, to high-density
collocations equipped with high-power blade servers with as many as six separate power supplies. The
intelligent rack PDUs come with built-in monitoring, security and networking capabilities. They are designed to
gather extensive power information, including data on voltage, current, power factor, apparent power (kVA),
active power (Watts), and kilowatt hours (kwh). To make it easy for data center operators to view power
activity, real-time information can be seen from the PDU's display at the rack and from a remote user interface
via a Web browser.
Raritan intelligent rack PDUs are available worldwide from Raritan's channel partners. More information on
The Build-to-Order intelligent rack PDUs are fully compatible with Raritan's Power IQ(TM) energy
management software for analyzing power usage and tracking trends. A free trial version of Raritan's Power
About Raritan
Raritan is a proven innovator of power management, infrastructure management, KVM and serial solutions
for data centers of all sizes. In more than 50,000 locations worldwide, Raritan's award-winning hardware and
software solutions -- including intelligent PDUs, energy management software, KVM-over-IP and Serial-over-
IP access products -- provide IT and facility directors, managers and administrators with the control they need
to increase power management efficiency, improve data center productivity and enhance branch office
operations. Based in Somerset, N.J., Raritan has offices worldwide serving 76 countries. For more
Raritan is an active member of the Green Grid, Climate Savers Computing Initiative, and the Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design associations. The company was recently recognized by the EPA for its
contribution to the agency's data center initiative.
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SOURCE: Raritan
CONTACT: Raritan Japan Inc.,
sales.japan@raritan.com
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