Panduit has recently released a short video series that overview the features and benefits of the SmartZone Intelligent G5 PDU. The videos take viewers on an in-depth look from both inside and outside a data center cabinet. In addition, the videos highlight some of its essential accessories. About the Intelligent G5 PDU Because of its high outlet densities and small form factors, Panduit SmartZone G5 Intelligent Power Distribution Unit (iPDU) is still one of the best and most advanced PDUs on the market. It was created with the goal of monitoring and correcting inefficiencies of the Data Cent ..read more

In a world that’s always on and always changing, designing and deploying a best-in-class cloud architecture that supports the distribution of compute, network, and storage as cloud services across wide geographies is no easy task. As a result, cloud operators are looking for infrastructure solutions that are designed to maximize performance, streamline management, and minimize downtime. But in reality, it’s the infrastructure partners who are also committed to innovation, can guarantee continuity of supply, and have the ability to solve problems and deliver solutions whenever and wherever the ..read more

In my previous post, I wrote about the rise of distributed cloud deployment models, and explained how they close the gap between private and public clouds in order to deliver all the benefits of public cloud along with location-dependent cloud use cases. In a traditional cloud computing architecture, the compute, and storage of all data is centralized. The cloud is able to leverage its massive compute and storage capability for large-scale data analysis and data storage. In a distributed cloud architecture, the full IT stack—compute, network, and storage resources—is distributed as cloud serv ..read more

After nearly a decade of public cloud adoption, many organizations have realized they need more flexibility when it comes to where they run applications and workloads. Increasingly, they are moving to highly distributed, multi-cloud architectures that span multiple public clouds, an on-premises data center and an MTDC facility. Multiple factors drove the pivot to multi-cloud, including the need to improve the performance of latency-sensitive applications, meet data sovereignty mandates, and ensure employees can do their best work wherever they are. For MTDC operators, opportunity abounds: The ..read more

Today at the BICSI 2022 Fall Conference, Cabling Installation & Maintenance announced the honorees for their 2022 competition in the Cabling Innovators Awards. The Cabling Innovators Awards annually recognizes products and projects that stand out as industry innovations, and this year, Panduit walks away with eight awards, which ties the record that they set in 2018.  RapidID™ Network Mapping System Panduit has received two Platinum awards, the first one for the RapidID™ Network Mapping System which is a solution that utilizes a Bluetooth®-enabled handheld scanner to automate labelin ..read more

Maintaining sustainable practices have become a top-of-mind topic among consumers, employees, stockholders, and businesses who want to buy from work for, partner with, or invest in organizations that are actively committed to operating in a sustainable fashion. For example: According to Gartner’s 2022 CEO Survey, for the first time in the history of this survey, CEOs placed environmental sustainability in their top 10 strategic business priorities. Younger workers care passionately about sustainability, and this attitude carries over into the workplace. For Generation Z, working fo ..read more

MTDCs are a critical part of today’s highly distributed architectures, and the ability to effectively control the high costs of operating them is critical for providers. Here’s why: Data center cooling systems account for nearly 37%1 of the overall power consumption, and it’s the fastest rising data center operation expense. And with providers tackling ever-larger workloads, it has never been more important to take a smarter approach to data center cooling. Metrics that Matter Two of the most important metrics in running an energy-efficient data center are power usage effectiveness (PUE) and ..read more

Data centers have come to play a vital role in most people’s daily lives. In fact, while many other commercial real estate (CRE) asset classes were negatively impacted by the global pandemic, the demand for data centers skyrocketed. Why? Because the equipment that cloud data centers power and protect made it possible for frontline workers to help people in need, for remote workers to remain productive, and for people everywhere to stay in touch with their friends and loved ones (albeit virtually), or binge watch Netflix in an effort to pass the long days of lockdown. Now, it's widely accepted ..read more

Data centers consume around 1% of the global electricity supply, which means that MTDC providers face increasing pressure from their tenants to reduce their carbon footprints and work together in advancing sustainability goals. At the same time, changing tenant needs mean that they also need to support a much wider range of computing workloads, leverage more interconnected services, and provide enhanced support for hybrid and distributed cloud architectures. This is one reason why cooling, which accounts for nearly 37% of the overall data center power consumption according to Lawrence Berkele ..read more

The ubiquity of the cloud has fundamentally changed the way enterprises consume computing resources. However, cloud consumption models are themselves evolving to incorporate an increasingly disparate blend of private, public, hybrid, colocation, and edge environments. Today, 92% of enterprises already have a multi-cloud strategy, yet infrastructure challenges remain. Despite the major advantages of embracing a distributed-cloud strategy, management complexity and the need for better governance and interoperability remain problematic. Many workloads remain siloed, a problem that often begins a ..read more