Raritan has introduced a new family of smart inline power meters, adding to its intelligent rack power distribution and energy management portfolio. The new Dominion PX-3000 Series is targeted at data centers that want to easily add power, energy and rack environment data collection capabilities to standalone IT equipment or racks containing basic rack power distribution units (PDUs).
The four new Dominion PX-3000 inline power meters, as well as all of Raritan's intelligent rack PDUs, come with built-in monitoring, security and networking capabilities. The PX-3000 inline power meters are designed to be used in conjunction with dumb rack PDUs to provide comprehensive strip-level metering and easily deploy environmental monitoring. The PX-3000 Series also is intended to power standalone equipment with dedicated circuits, such as large network switches, storage arrays, and mainframe computers.
"The Dominion PX-3000 power meters are ideal where dumb rack power strips have been used in the past, and now IT and facilities managers need to collect accurate power data to manage data centers for optimal efficiency and uptime," said Naim Malik, Senior Product Manager at Raritan. "Our inline power meters also provide industry-leading power measurement accuracy of +/- 1%. A large European customer ordered our solution on the basis of this accuracy, so that they can bill-back energy costs to internal clients."
Combining PX-3000 inline power meters with Raritan's Power IQ energy management software provides data center managers a complete solution that helps analyze the volumes of device-level power data collected by Raritan and third-party PDUs. Raritan's intelligent rack PDU portfolio is one of the largest in the industry and includes single-phase, three-phase, outlet-metered, outlet-switched and now inline power meters to meet the needs of diverse IT environments.
