PTS' Peter Sacco featured in CRN's 2015 Top 20 Data Center Designers and Builders

Regardless of the size of the data center, the right mix of IT, power and cooling equipment, and how that equipment is integrated into the facilities, is key to maximizing efficiency and providing the flexibility to expand as needed. Successful integration of equipment into data centers depends on finding the right companies with site preparation, design, construction and management expertise. Those organizations also need to be able to quickly turn the new facilities over to customers and help manage the transition. Such designers and builders are often the unsung heroes of the data center. But not in CRN, as noted in the CRN 2015 Top Data Center Designers and Builders list.

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PTS Showcasing Its CloudCover Convergence Platform at NJTC Innovation Forecast 2/10/2015

Tuesday, February 10, 2015 - NJTC Innovation Forecast 

PTS will be showcasing its CloudCover IT/Facility/Cabling convergence platform, with partner SimpliVity, a leader in hyper-converged IT deployment including compute, storage, WAN optimization, backup, replication, and deduplication. The Innovation Forecast will also feature a panel on how new ideas will be funded in 2015 and beyond. After the event, attendees will have an opportunity to take a tour of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, one of the leading technology laboratories in the country.

The event takes place on Tuesday, February 10, 2015, from 1:00 to 5:00PM (Plus Tour) at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, 100 Stellarator Road, Princeton, NJ, 08543-0451

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Aquatherm: High Performance, Long-Lasting, and Environmentally Friendly Pipes and Fittings

Ideally hydronic pipe should not be affected by the fluid it is carrying, and the fluid should not be affected by the pipe. Sadly, many HVAC system use a compromised material called carbon steel for hydronic piping. Water oxidizes steel, which causes pitting, scale build-up, and eventually leads to failure of the pipe. These effects are mitigated through the use of closed systems where possible, chemical treatment, PH-treatment, etc. Still, metal pipes produce rust which gums up valves, clogs strainers, and accumulates in low velocity areas. 

 

Wonder if you did not have to compromise? Wonder if an ideal piping material was available… an economically feasible material that required no maintenance? Wonder no longer. Consider Aquatherm.

Aquatherm Features and Benefits:

• Does not rust
• Provides a lower installed cost compared to other welded or soldered system
• Has the lowest friction loss of any pipe on the market
• Does not require chemical treatment
• Does not require an open flame, glues, or chemicals to fuse it together; It uses heat fusion to bond
• Limit liability of theft on job sites (it has no scrap value, unlike copper which is often stolen from job sites)
• Requires less external insulation (due to R-value~1)
• Resist condensation if left exposed
• Mitigates sound transmission and physical vibrations
• Can be directly buried underground
• Will not burst if water freezes within it (above –20F)
• Forms a monolithic piping system when assembled (no gaskets, solder, weld slag, glue, etc.)
• Approved for HVAC, domestic water, sprinkler systems, irrigation, chemical drains, and food grade applications
• Available in pipe sizes ranging from 3/8” up to 24” diameter
• Proven 40+ year track record of installation around the world

For more information about Aquatherm, call PTS at (201) 337-3833 or visit:

Aquatherm Manufacturer Page
Aquatherm Health and Safety Benefits 
Aquatherm One Page Brochure

Is it Time to Move or Colocate your Data Center? PTS' Relocation Services Can Help

So you've made the decision to relocate your data center operations to a new facility. Perhaps you are moving the operations to a data center colocation facility because it was going to be too expensive to upgrade your in-house data center facility, or perhaps your organization prefers an operational expense financial model over spending capital expenditures (cash) today. Or maybe your company is simply relocating its corporate headquarters, including the computer room.

Regardless, you will have a lot of work ahead of you, and PTS’ data center experts can help. PTS’ Relocation Services provide comprehensive site selection, planning, project management, and implementation services for clients in need of data center or computer room migration, whether due to business changes, growth, changes in IT needs or requirements, business relocation, or other strategic business reasons.

 

Learn more about PTS' Relocation Services for your data center,

computer room, or other mission-critical facility here:

http://www.ptsdcs.com/data-center-relocation.asp

PTS Partner SimpliVity on a Mission to Simplify IT

SimpliVity Convergence 3.0: Converge Entire
Stack into a Single Resource Pool

SimpliVity is on a mission to simplify IT. SimpliVity’s products are used by hundreds of enterprises and service providers worldwide and SimpliVity has been recognized by the industry for its leadership team, channel acumen and friendliness, and product innovation.

Today, companies are under continued pressure to leverage IT for competitive advantage, while being constrained by the cost and complexity of deploying it. Post-virtualization data centers are challenged to deliver the scalability, efficiency and economics of cloud computing while maintaining the performance, resiliency and manageability of enterprise IT. SimpliVity delivers the best of both worlds. OmniStack, SimpliVity's novel technology, powers an assimilated IT infrastructure platform that achieves superior data efficiency by deduplicating, compressing and optimizing all data at inception in real time, once and forever, and without performance penalties. It also natively integrates data protection and cloud enablement to provide further operational efficiency and TCO reduction.

For more information, please call PTS at (201) 337-3833 or visit:

SimpliVity Manufacturer Page
SimpliVity OmniCube/OmniStack Solutions

Zerto Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Software for Virtualized Data Centers and Cloud Environments

Zerto provides enterprise-class disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) software specifically for virtualized data centers and cloud environments. Zerto’s award winning solution provides enterprises with data replication & recovery designed specifically for virtualized infrastructure and the cloud. Zerto Virtual Replication is the industry’s first hypervisor-based replication solution for tier-one applications, replacing traditional array-based BC/DR solutions that were not built to deal with the virtual paradigm.

• Zerto Disaster Recovery for a Virtualized World Zerto’s award winning hypervisor-based replication software enables alignment of your Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) plan with your IT strategy. By using hypervisor-based data replication, you can reduce DR complexity and hardware costs and still protect your mission-critical virtualized applications.
   
• Zerto Replication for VMware Zerto’s replication for VMware enables automated data recovery, failover and failback and lets you select any VM in VMware’s vCenter. It’s that simple – no storage configuration necessary, no agent installation on guest required.
   
• Zerto Recovery for Hyper-V Zerto Virtual Replication, the industry’s first hypervisor-based replication solution for VMware environments, is now available for Microsoft Hyper-V. Purpose-built for production workloads and deployed on a virtual infrastructure, Zerto Virtual Replication is the only technology that combines near-continuous replication with block-level, application-consistent data protection across hosts and storage.
   
• Zerto Hypervisor Replication Zerto offers a virtual-aware, software-only, tier-one, enterprise-class replication solution purpose-built for virtual environments. By moving replication up the stack from the storage layer into the hypervisor, Zerto created the first and only replication solution that delivers enterprise-class, virtual replication and BC/DR capabilities for the data center and the cloud.

Packet Power: Turn Basic PDUs into "Smart PDUs" ...in Minutes

Upgrading your standard un-metered PDU to a fully metered PDU doesn’t have to mean going to the expense of purchasing a new smart PDU along with the costs of adding network cable drops and a massive integration effort with a monitoring program. Packet Power “Smart Cables” simplify the process with the entire solution often costing less than most metered PDUs and can be implemented quickly and easily. 

 
What is a "Smart Cable"?

Smart Cables are standard power cables with low profile embedded wireless network power monitors. 

• Provide high accuracy measurements from current (A) to energy usage (kWh)
• Fail safe design that can never interrupt the current path
• Available in any plug type from 10-63 Amps and certified for use in most countries

Installing is easy as "1-2-3"...

Cost-Effective Solution: Less Expensive than Metered PDUs without Compromise

Deploying a Smart Cable network is more affordable than you may think. Adding a Smart Cable to your standard PDU often costs far less than many metered PDUs while providing all the functionality. Looking at the total cost of ownership, the Smart Cable scenario becomes more attractive as it has a single IP address and network drop per hundreds of PDUs eliminating the costs of network cables and maintaining a fleet of IP addresses. Also there are no network cable drops needed for Smart Cables. Monitoring also becomes much more affordable as there are no commission or programming costs associated with the Packet Power monitoring solution. Even when using the EMX monitoring portal, licensing fees are a fraction of that of conventional systems, or non-existent when only using the SNMP or ModBus data.

For more information, please call PTS at (201) 337-3833 or visit:

• Packet Power Products Page
• Brochure: Turn Basic PDUs into Smart PDUs (PDF)
• Brochure: Packet Power Smart Cables/Technical Specifications (PDF)

Upcoming AFCOM Events to Address your Data Center's Daunting Holiday Task List

Do you have upcoming 2015 projects to improve the management and efficiency of your IT & Data Center?
 

Are you out shopping for Data Center space, hosting and cloud service providers?
 

Do you need consulting and design help with your next IT or Data Center project?

 

Do you need help sourcing proven and leading IT and Facilities infrastructure?

Are you looking for help with the maintenance and operations of your mission critical environment?

...then AFCOM Midlantic's Holiday Event & AFCOM NYC/NJ Metro Chapter Expo offer the best way to find the sources and learn from these experts who will be lined them up for you at these events!

You could take your chances hunting the web attempting to find reliable sources to complete your holiday budget or you could come out to network with the best in the industry in a relaxing environment with great food, beverage and holiday cheer, making your year-end tasks seem a whole lot less daunting!

December 4, 2014 (Thursday), 4:00 - 8:00 pm:

AFCOM Midlantic’s Holiday Event at Valley Forge Casino

December 10, 2014 (Wednesday), 7:30am - 6:00pm:

AFCOM NYC/NJ Metro Chapter Expo

We hope to see you there!

Rackstuds: The Simpler, Faster, Safer Cage Nut Replacement

Rackstuds™ are the revolutionary replacement for cage nuts which are used to mount IT, Pro A/V, Security, and Telecommunications equipment in 19” racks.

Unlike cage nuts, Rackstuds™ go in from the front which greatly simplifies their installation. Cage nuts can be quite tricky to get in, especially when the rack starts to get populated or the rack is in situ with the side panels installed. Rackstuds™ can be installed in seconds and are just as easy to remove and reuse. They’re also tool free.

Visit our Rackstuds Product Page for more information.

Taneja Group Field Report: Massively Scalable, Intrinsically Simple: Tintri’s Low TCO For The Virtualized Data Center

Fast-growing virtualized environments present a thorny storage challenge to IT. Whether mission-critical applications with demanding SLAs, VDI rollouts with boot storms, or deploying a private cloud for large dev & test environments: delivering virtualized environments and cloud deployments using traditional storage can stall or break a virtualization project.

Flash technology is certainly part of the solution to performance challenges posed by virtualized workloads, but can be prohibitively expensive to broadly implement across the environment. Although flash can be deployed in a number of targeted ways and placed in the infrastructure, the more it is tied down to specific hosts and workloads, the less benefit it provides to the overall production environment. This in turn causes more management overhead.

Taneja Group ran Tintri VMstore storage through their hands-on validation lab and documented significant large factors of improvement over traditional storage. Those factors accrue through Tintri’s cost-effective acquisition, simplicity and ease of deployment and data migration, effective high performance and availability and smooth expansion over time. This Field Report validates their impressive lab findings: Tintri’s approach provides significantly lower TCO than traditional storage solutions.

Read the full Tintri Field Report Here