Enlogic launches EnPowered PDU to deliver scalability and convergence
8 April 2014 – Worcester, UK – In a world first, BT IT Systems is future-proofing its data centre assets with the industry’s first upgradeable PDU, the Enlogic EnPowered PDU. Recognising the current market split between the need for either intelligent or basic PDUs, alongside the barriers to technology procurement, Enlogic has developed and delivered the EnPowered PDU to give customers the best of both worlds – a highly engineered basic PDU with multiple benefits, which also allows customers to purchase a network management card (NMC) at a later date, to upgrade the PDU’s intelligence level.
This means that when a customer like BT IT Systems chooses to upgrade from basic, the initial purchase doesn’t become a ‘sunk cost’ for the business as Enlogic can simply install the ‘brain’ of the PDU – the NMC – in a couple of simple clicks, avoiding downtime and any lengthy change management or procurement processes. As no other direct competitors provide this ‘EnPowered’ ability on the market, this is a valuable asset for all businesses.
Customers using any PDU from Enlogic’s intelligent range will benefit from its hot swappable network management module, designed using distributed intelligence architecture, which allows for easy field replacement while the device remains powered and IT equipment keeps running. This is achieved by storing the PDU’s basic configurations on the chassis’ motherboard with only limited intelligence in the component. Hot swap could save up to 80 hours of change management ticketing when component delivery and installation are taken into account.
Steve Smith, regional data centre manager at BT IT Systems comments: “Enlogic’s fresh approach to the role the PDU can play has allowed me to improve efficiencies in my data centre whilst reducing cost. The flexibility surrounding the outlet types allows my business to drive my data centre and not the other way around.
“What’s more, by understanding the change management process applied to businesses of our size, Enlogic’s innovative hot swappable Network Management Card (NMC) not only reduces cost but also vast amounts of time in such a critical environment, as well as offering an upgrade path from the basic to full monitoring without any downtime,” Smith concludes.
Eddie Desouza, Global Communications and Marketing Director, comments: “Every aspect of Enlogic’s EnPowered PDUs have been designed to deliver to multiple stakeholders. Customers are consistently feeding back that while they made the decision to buy based on different USPs, the overall efficiency, design and operational benefits of the Enlogic PDU outstrip anything they’ve seen before.
“Data centre managers can use the Enlogic ‘EnPowered’ PDU as a stepping stone to create a highly intelligent monitoring environment when the business requires and can afford to make this change,” Desouza concludes.
Upgrading from an EnPowered to an intelligent PDU and using it together with a network management card (NMC) enables users to remotely access PDU information through an IP address. A single IP address can be used when daisy chaining up to four PDUs for manageability. The software allows data centre managers to be granular with the detail they obtain about their PDUs and data centre environment, offering precise updates on capacity, air flow and cooling.
The Enlogic ‘Enpowered’ PDU delivers the industry’s slimmest premium hydraulic magnetic circuit breakers which are unaffected by heat and allow equipment to run up to the highest temperatures without tripping. Data centre managers can set parameters on the PDU to alert them when it reaches a certain threshold unlike rival breakers which will trip without warning.
With space in the data centre at a premium, Enlogic’s entire range of PDUs (including the EnPowered PDU) are the slimmest in the world – up to 42mm slimmer than its closest competitor – at just 50mm. This means that installers can fit it into the rack with ease in comparison to larger alternatives. The slimmer size also negates the need to power down the PDU to provide maintenance on other servers, as it doesn’t obstruct any of the other components in the rack.
For more information on the Enlogic EnPowered PDU, please visit www.enlogic.com
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Notes to editors
About Enlogic
Save Energy, Save Money
Energy prices are set to rise. Demands on IT are increasing all the time. And there is mounting pressure from governments to meet energy targets. Some would say the data centre industry is facing an energy crisis. Given the current state of affairs, no-one can afford to ignore the opportunity to cut the data centre energy bill.
Enlogic exists to draw awareness to the rack and more specifically the PDU to make significant energy savings, providing that small things can make a big difference. It is better to accurately measure energy consumption and proactively ensure operating efficiency. This creates a new freedom to explore technologies that optimise server performance. There is also a strong argument for increasing the temperature in the data centre by one degree without compromising reliability.
Founded in March 2011, Enlogic employs more than 70 professional staff across its global offices in the UK & Ireland, Germany, USA, Singapore, China, Australia, Netherlands, Nordics, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Collectively, Enlogic employees are responsible for 26 patent applications, 16 of those directly related to the design and progression of rack PDUs.
With Enlogic, the management team and engineers continue to prove they are the best and brightest in this industry, building upon extensive careers working for blue chip employers including ABB, APC, BT, Emerson Network, Hitachi, Intel, Invensys, Nokia, Siemens, Omron, Pentair, Schneider Electric, and the US Department of Energy, among others.
Sharing their expertise, Enlogic aims to provide data centre IT and facilities stakeholders with enhanced knowledge to solve specific rack energy management problems.
For further information please visit: http://www.enlogic.com/
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