Raritan has been selected as a winner of the prestigious 2010 Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards presented by the Uptime Institute. The GEIT Awards showcase organizations that are pioneering energy-efficiency improvements in their IT and data center operations. Raritan won the "Outstanding IT Product" category for its Power IQ Energy Management Software and PX intelligent power distribution units (iPDUs) with plug-and-play environment sensors.
The Raritan solution provides valuable insights on data center power usage. Power IQ software collects and analyzes energy data of IT equipment connected to Raritan's PX intelligent PDUs and third-party Ethernet-enabled rack PDUs, as well as information from temperature and humidity sensors.
W. Pitt Turner IV, PE, Executive Director, Uptime Institute, said, "Comprised of Power IQ software and PX PDUs, the Raritan solution at J. R. Simplot's 500 server data center demonstrates how intelligent energy management technologies, which measure and track energy usage at the device level and can help customers achieve a better understanding of how and where their data centers consume energy."
