Modius Blog
Monitoring Servers: Don’t sweat the acronyms...
March 2010
Enterprise servers have become fairly robust over the last several years and all discreet server appliances and chassis form-factors include remote management technology built-in at the hardware and software level. And of course, each manufacturer...
Monitoring devices using LAN or Serial interfaces
February 2010
This topic comes up regularly and there exists some confusion regarding how the two technologies, Serial and LAN, relate. Let me start by saying that nearly every piece of equipment built in the last 20 years includes at least one form of core...
Instrumentation Now!
February 2010
Over the past year, many customers have found themselves in the midst of very real ‘Sustainability’, ‘Eco-efficiency’ or ‘Green’ initiatives. The core requirement of these initiatives is to establish energy and efficiency baselines to ultimately...
Do you know what “HR6, Section 453” is?
January 2010
In 2007, the “Energy Independence and Security Act” was passed by congress and is sometimes referred to as “HR6”. In this energy efficiency Act, Section 453 is a section dedicated to the application of this Act to the datacenter...
Measuring Available Redundant Capacity (ARC)
December 2009
One of the key power usage metrics that I often find our customers requesting is Available Redundant Capacity (ARC). This metric is the amount of IT load that can be added to a data center system as a whole without sacrificing redundancy.
A Leak Finds Its Way to Sybase’s Data Center
September 2009
As a follow-up to our inaugural blog post, I wanted to share a real-world challenge Sybase recently encountered. Although Sybase is acknowledged as one of the country’s best run data centers, in this case it was challenged by a leak from another floor.
Continuous PUE Reporting Project at Sybase
March 2009
To keep customers informed on the latest innovations at Modius, we have initiated this customer blog. Recently, we updated the data capture capabilities at Sybase in order to provide them with Continuous Power Usage Effectiveness (C-PUE) reports.
