SynapSense Active Control Data Center Cooling Software

Data center monitoring is an integral part of managing any server room. Beyond monitoring though, efficient use of cooling resources is critical to reducing data center operating costs and effectively managing IT capacity changes.  To help data center professionals with this critical task, SynapSense has recently released a new software package which, when combined with SynapSense wireless sensors, affords IT managers the fine grain control over cooling resources that today's energy efficient data centers demand. 

SynapSense's new Active Control automated data center cooling software monitors server room cooling needs by tracking server inlet temperature and sub-floor pressure differentials via the wireless sensors. Using this data, Active Control dynamically adjusts CRAH (Computer Room Air Handler) temperature set points and fan speeds to meet changing IT demand loads. This dynamic approach to controlling data center cooling can dramatically reduce server room energy costs up to 30%.

SynapSense Active Control Server Room Cooling Software Dashboard

You don't leave all of your lights on every day, why cool data centers to meet 100% capacity 100% of the time. Take control of your data center cooling today and realize immediate energy savings and increased efficiency.  Learn more about SynapSense Active Control from 42U, your data center engineering professionals.

Avocent First to Combine Management of Virtualized and Physical Assets in the Data Center

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Sept. 5, 2007 – Avocent® Corporation (Nasdaq: AVCT) today introduced a major upgrade to its award-winning flagship DSView 3 management software that enables IT managers to seamlessly access and control virtualized environments in the same way they access and control their physical IT environments. Avocent DSView 3 software is the first management platform to enable combined access and control of both virtual and physical servers – in the same “pane of glass” – reducing the cost and complexity of managing data centers.

“Virtualization offers significant economic benefits to the enterprise, and we’re pleased to add this powerful new capability that our data center customers demand,” said Dave Perry, executive vice president and general manager. “This emerging mix of virtual and physical servers is adding a new layer of complexity to IT management and it’s becoming a huge management issue for our customers. Avocent’s enhanced software lessens that complexity because it provides a single platform for combined access and control of both physical and virtual servers thereby eliminating the need for a separate set of tools for managing the virtual world.” The software will be demonstrated publicly for the first time at the VMworld event in San Francisco September 11-13.

Click here to read the entire press release for the Avocent DSView 3.