Microsoft's Enterprise Engineering Center Selects Raritan's IT Infrastructure and...

Microsoft's Enterprise Engineering Center Selects Raritan's IT Infrastructure
and Power Management Solutions

SOMERSET, N.J., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Raritan today announced that
Microsoft's Enterprise Engineering Center (EEC) has chosen a suite of Raritan
IT infrastructure management solutions for monitoring servers and their energy
consumption down to the outlet level.

Located on the main Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, the
state-of-the-art data center contains more than $125 million in hardware and
networking equipment, and houses multiple labs for Microsoft's enterprise
customers to collaborate with product teams to test and validate Microsoft
software solutions in replicas of customer production environments.

The EEC will use Raritan's remote access and control solutions -- including
Raritan's Dominion(R) KX II KVM-over-IP switches and CommandCenter(R) Secure
Gateway -- to configure and transform each lab into a scaled representation of
a customer's infrastructure. From any Web browser, administrators, as well as
customers, will be able to control and configure servers and other IT
equipment. The KX II provides secure BIOS-level access with Absolute Mouse
Synchronization to servers and supports remote installation of software and
diagnostics.

In addition, Raritan's new power management solutions will help customers
analyze power consumption and cooling requirements for different server
configurations. Servers in the labs will be plugged into Raritan's Dominion
PX intelligent rack Power Distribution Units (PDU), which measure power
consumption at the outlet level. "With the Dominion PX we'll be monitoring
daily the amount of amperage and watts drawn by each piece of equipment in our
server racks," said Microsoft EEC Business Development Manager Steve Cole.
"We also will be able to look at cooling and humidity statistics at the racks
using the Dominion PX environmental sensors."

Raritan's intelligent PX PDUs also will help the EEC find valuable free rack
space by using real-time power draw information of equipment instead of
relying upon nameplate data.

The remote management capabilities of the PX, as well as the Dominion KX, are
key enablers of zero-touch automated machine deployment," added Cole. "The
PX, for example, gives us the ability to remotely power on servers, which is
done in sequence to prevent a massive power draw at boot-up. It also helps us
in reducing the EEC's energy costs by enabling us to remotely turn off servers
that are not in use."

"We are pleased to support Microsoft's Enterprise Engineering Center and its
customers," said Gary Marks, Raritan Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
"Raritan's solutions will help customers in testing and validating their
simulated environments, as well as give them an opportunity to test the energy
efficiencies of their configurations."

About Raritan (Raritan.com)
Raritan provides secure IT infrastructure management solutions that increase
data center efficiency and productivity by delivering integrated in-band and
out-of-band energy management, server access and control. Raritan's power
management software, intelligent PDU, environmental sensors, KVM, serial
console and centralized management products are in use in more than 50,000
locations worldwide. Raritan's OEM division provides embedded hardware and
firmware for server and client management, including intelligent energy
management, KVM over IP, IPMI and other industry standards-based management
applications. Based in Somerset, N.J., Raritan has offices worldwide serving
76 countries. For more information, please visit Raritan.com

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