The Heart of the Data Center: Equipment Vendors Face Down Critical Cable, Power Management Challenges

摘要

At first blush, cable and power management may not seem very sexy, but to the data center manager, they're where it's at. These seemingly mundane areas of IT remain central to the administrator's everyday job, despite the recent deployment of numerous advanced technologies in the data center. Fortunately, rack, enclosure and KVM switch vendors have been heeding their core mission, boosting their offerings to help control and streamline data centers and server rooms that have become ever-more crowded and complex.