Take Control Of Your Data Center Environment

Strategies To Keep Your Environment On Track:- Elizabeth Millard of Processor.com

Monitoring for environmental factors, including temperature, humidity, and other issues such as fire or flood, is essential for today’s data centers. But many data center and IT managers may not be aware how environmental monitoring devices can help and the breadth of issues they can monitor.....View Full Article in Processor.com

Key Points

• The three basic types of environmental monitoring controls are direct connection through USB or another port, wireless and cellular/mobile.
• When looking for a control system, think about putting redundancy strategies in place in terms of communication and backup power.
• Determine up front what an enterprise needs and size appropriately, rather than getting numerous features that will go unused.

Environment Monitoring Options from OPENXTRA

USB Direct Connection Environment Monitors

Ethernet Network Environment Monitoring Control Systems

Wireless Network Environment Monitoring Control Systems