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

Glass Apps Switchable Glass and Film

Glass Apps is the leading provider of Switchable Glass and Film, which changes from clear and opaque states on demand. For more than a decade, Glass Apps switchable glass technology has been utilized for commercial, data center, transportation, healthcare, government, and residential applications.

Glass Apps Smart Glass is a laminated glass product consisting of a Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal (PDLC) film sandwiched between two layers of glass and two layers of conductive interlayers. This PDLC film is what allows you to change the visual appearance of the glass from opaque (translucent) to clear (transparent).

Learn more about Glass Apps here:

http://www.computer-room-design.com/Glass-Apps-Products.asp

Before Glass Apps Effect (Clear)

After Glass Apps Effect (Opaque)

PTS, Tintri, & Veeam LIVE Webinar & Exotic Car Ride! Thursday, October 16th, 2014.

Join us for an exotic ride!

Thursday, October 16, 2014 from 12:00 to 5:00PM EST

(Live Webinar from 2:00 to 3:00)
  PTS Headquarters

16 Thornton Road

 Oakland, NJ 07436
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT

PTS Data Center Solutions, Veeam, and Tintri have teamed up to provide a wide range of capabilities that will help you eliminate storage bottlenecks while also ensuring that your data is easily managed and fully protected-both on and offsite.

Jaguar F-Type

Please join us to celebrate our collaboration with a free webinar and hear real-time customer testimonials on how they overcame their data center pain points with PTS Data Center Solutions, Veeam, and Tintri. Webinar will take place at PTS' Headquarters in Oakland, NJ.

Lamborghini

Food, drinks, the ability to tour PTS' HQ and Cloud Data Center, and the opportunity to drive one of the exotic sports cars starting from 12:00 noon to 5:00PM, with the Veeam/Tintri presentation and live demonstration commencing promptly at 2:00PM.

For more information, please call us at (201) 337-3833 or learn more at:

Tintri Media (Videos, White Papers, Case Studies)

Tintri Products (VMstore, Replicate VM, etc.)

Veeam Products

Tintri Provides Competitive Edge for PTS Data Center Solutions’ Hosted Cloud Service

Tintri Multi-Tenancy Storage Delivers High Performance, Management Simplicity, and Comprehensive Visibility for VDI and DR-as-a-Service Offerings

"Tintri’s approach to VM- and application-aware storage is a game changer. It’s giving me a distinct advantage over all of the other cloud providers, and there are a myriad of them out there. With Tintri, we will be one of the first service providers with the ability to do multitenancy for VDI and DR, with a virtually optimized high IOPS array."

Pete Sacco
President and Founder
PTS Data Center Solutions

Key Challenges

• Experiencing inadequate performance in hosted desktop environment
• Existing storage platform was difficult to manage
• Lacked visibility into storage arrays at the VM level for troubleshooting and optimization 

Primary Use Case

• Cloud-based, hosted desktop virtualization and Disaster Recovery-as-a-service.

Virtualization environment

• VMware® vSphere™ 5. 5
• VMware Horizon 6.0
• Traditional storage: Dell EqualLogic and NetApp FAS arrays

VM profile

• SQL Server 2008
• Application Servers 2008r2
  - Veeam Backup
  - SharePoint
• Web Servers 2008r2
• Active Directory
• Virtual Desktop Server 2012 with MS Windows v8.1 Desktops (POC)

Tintri Solution

• Tintri VMstore™ T650

Business Benefits

• Obtained higher performance for VDI and DR
• Increased management simplicity and visibility
• Provided multi-tenancy, enabling PTS to offer cost-effective DR-as-a-service

Download the entire Tintri Case Study Here (PDF Format)

Is it Time to Accessorize your Data Center?

Fashionistas aren't the only ones who have need to accessorize; sometimes data center managers rely on certain accessories that are designed to smooth a data center's daily operations, help things run more efficiently, and even extend the lifespan of their assets. Alongside the main components of a data center, there are other factors that need to be addressed to keep things running, including uninterruptible power, efficient cooling systems, and fire protection, to name a few. Beyond these mission-critical systems, there exists a variety of add-on products that serve specific needs that may apply to your situation.

A few of PTS' recommended data center accessories are as follows:

• PTS Aurora Wireless Temperature Monitoring Strips
• IEC Secure Power Connections
• Dycem CleanZone Mats
• Glass Apps Switchable Glass and Film
• Rackstuds: The Smart Rack Mounting System
• AirBlock Curtains and Strip Doors

Use of these accessories may save you time, may save you money, and may even change the way you run your data center's daily operations.  In any case, these, and other accessories, should be considered in all data centers.

Tintri: Smart Storage that Sees, Learns and Adapts

High-Performance VM-Aware Hybrid-Storage 

Our clients often come to realize that the performance demands of their virtualized databases, applications, and VDI are not being met by their current IT infrastructure technology. In our experience, we find the culprit to be the storage technology itself.

Introducing the Tintri VMstore Storage Systems

Tintri is a near "zero" management NFS storage solution built specifically to manage virtual environments for servers, desktops, test development, and production workloads. This means no LUN's, volumes, or tiers to manage. Tintri's file system is built from the ground up, allowing you to solve a lot of the complexities and inefficiencies traditional storage brings to the table.

Download Informative Tintri
White Papers,Videos, and Case Studies

PTS has partnered with Tintri to make available a no cost nor obligation, proof-of-concept (POC) array to test for yourself. Please contact PTS today to see if you qualify: (201) 337-3833 or email us at: TintriPOC@PTSdcs.com

Slideshow: PTS Data Center Solutions Headquarters and Cloud Data Center (Oakland, NJ)

PTS Data Center Solutions has a new Office Headquarters and Cloud Data Center in Oakland, NJ. To complete the project, PTS relied entirely on in-house expertise to perform planning, facility architectural and engineering through equipment migration planning and execution, and all phases in between. The PTS Headquarters now showcases cutting-edge office space, multiple conference rooms, a functioning NOC (network operations center), an IT build room, and warehouse facilities for PTS’ growing staff of experts.

View the slideshow below or request a personal tour.

PTS Announces Partnership with Intelligent Power Management Provider Enlogic

PTS Data Center Solutions, Inc. is proud to announce a partnership with intelligent power management provider Enlogic Systems. Enlogic continuously releases new & innovative products and their efficient product line reduces energy consumption, which, in turn, cuts utility costs. Enlogic’s award-winning product line of intelligent Power Distribution Units (iPDUs), Energy Meters, Locking Power Cables, and Environmental Sensors are designed to simplify rack management by providing automated real-time threat alerts, and capacity and load balancing data for energy use optimization and control.

Enlogic iPDU Features

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

• Enlogic Products Page
• PTS and Enlogic Partnership
• Enlogic White Papers
• Press Release: PTS/Enlogic Partnership