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Raritan Unveils Intelligent Cabinet Concept in Collaboration with Legrand Data Communications at Gartner ConferenceLAS VEGAS, Dec. 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Raritan®, a leading provider of intelligent data center management and rack power distribution solutions, and Legrand's Data Communications division today unveiled a working model of the Legrand Intelligent Cabinet Concept at the Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure, and Operations Management Conference. The focus of the Intelligent Cabinet Concept model – which will go on a multi-city tour -- is to gather input from customers on their IT infrastructure needs for remote and distributed locations. The working model of the Intelligent Cabinet is designed to monitor and manage, from anywhere, all the IT and integrated infrastructure elements secured in the cabinet, thereby streamlining work, cutting costs, and shifting the focus from managing many elements to managing only one element – the Cabinet. The paradigm shift to the cabinet or rack as the standard IT unit to manage is expected to make it easier for those centrally located IT and data center professionals responsible for rollouts and uptime in remote locations. It also will help reduce opex and capex costs. The unique architecture of the modular cabinet eliminates redundancy – and related costs – so that the cabinet providing intelligence and more capabilities is expected to cost no more than the cabinet components purchased separately. Deployment and installation time is expected to be in weeks instead of months because all the cabinet components are pre-integrated and -tested. The renewed interest in remote IT sites -- and in containerized cabinets and micro data centers -- is being driven by the Internet of Things (IoT) and other trends requiring real-time sensor data gathering and analytics crunching to take place at the network edge and in remote offices and branch offices. "The challenge is to deploy and manage compute resources – servers, storage, switches, and converged equipment – and all the supporting infrastructure elements for power, networking, security, and monitoring at these remote locations where IT support professionals are not typically located," says Henry Hsu, vice president of Product Management and Marketing at Raritan. "Legrand is creating the Intelligent Cabinet for an easier, more responsive and cost-effective way to support remote sites, and to enable new compute models at the edge. We are looking forward to sharing the working Intelligent Cabinet concept and gathering feedback from customers ranging from branch offices to edge data centers to colos." The Intelligent Cabinet A patent-pending embedded controller provides the intelligence to the Legrand Cabinet. The cabinet has its own IP address, and both a remote and cabinet-door touchscreen User Interface to mnage all tasks – including security authentication and door-lock release to access the inside of the cabinet, tracking IT and infrastructure assets in the cabinet, and providing updates on the environment's health, energy usage and potential issues. The cabinet's capabilities support typical scenarios in remote sites. If there is a hot spot near the cabinet, for example, the cabinet's environmental sensors will send alerts to the brains of the cabinet, which will email alerts to the IT staff and will trigger the LED lights outside the cabinet to turn red. And if there is a security breach, for example, the cabinet will activate cameras to capture images of the unauthorized intruder and send them to the centralized IT staff. Among the cabinet components are intelligent power distribution units that meter at the outlet level and can turn off power remotely, a UPS backup system, environmental sensors, asset management, intelligent lighting, and DCIM software. The self-contained cabinet's built-in security features include smart door locks, smart card access, authentication, cameras, and visual and audible alerts and alarms. From interoperability to security, the cabinet's open-standards-based architecture is designed to fit into current and future IT environments. Transformative to supporting digital business development "Collectively the participating Legrand business units have a common core competency to deliver resilient and efficient data center infrastructures," explains Manny Linhares, IoT Director for Legrand, North America. "For decades we have worked with data center customers to provide solutions from a full lifecycle perspective – solutions that are easy and fast to deploy, easy to use, easy to monitor and manage, and capable of growing with businesses. Our Intelligent Cabinet applies the same principles. Our goal is to work with customers and partners to create the most useful configuration to cut deployment and operations costs and to enable business transformation." IoT and The Legrand Eliot Program The live demo of the Intelligent Cabinet will be in Legrand's simulated data center at the Gartner conference. Other Raritan data center solutions will be shown in Raritan Booth #255. About Raritan About Legrand, North America * Source: "Gartner Hype Cycle for Data Center Power and Cooling Technologies", Micro Data Centers Analysis By: David J. Cappuccio; Ron Blair; Jay E. Pultz. Gartner Research July 12, 2016.] All marks are the property of their respective owners. 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