Quality, reliability, and safety
are paramount considerations
when selecting the right
intelligent rack PDU supporting
high density power applications.
As the voltages are increased
so is the inherent increased
risk for arc flash.
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and infrastructure costs. Care must be taken to deploy
this solution safely with the utmost precautions
emphasized around industry best practices.
CONCLUSION
Not long ago, rack PDUs were mainly basic power
strips distributing power to the different equipment
in the cabinet. In the past few years, rack PDUs not
only distribute power, but are rapidly evolving with
embedded and connected IoT devices. The intelligent
rack PDU is becoming the IoT device aggregation point
and also control point for infrastructure management.
The PDU segment is expected to register a CAGR
of around 7.0 percent from 2019 to 2025. The global
data center rack PDU market is expected to reach USD
2.04 billion by 2025. The growth is mainly driven by
the snowballing demand for intelligent PDUs. Over
the last few years, companies have shifted toward
the adoption of intelligent PDUs against simple multi
socket racks with server and network equipment.12
Intelligent rack PDUs enable the management
and monitoring of power in addition to monitoring
environmental and security conditions. Through
the installation of intelligent rack PDUs, data center
managers are able to collect insight data and actionable
intelligence that could be used for positivity impacting
the business outcome. In addition to intelligence, the
rack PDU is evolving to provide a lot more power directly
to the rack. This not only meets the continuously
growing demand for having more equipment in the
cabinet with more power-hungry high computing
equipment, but also optimizes the power distribution
and reduces energy costs.
BIOGRAPHY: Raul Pombo is the Panduit Senior Product
Line Manager for Intelligent Infrastructure Solutions within the
Data Center Business Unit at Panduit Corp in Tinley Park, Illinois.
In this position, Raul is responsible for the Intelligent Infrastructure
Solutions business strategy, product roadmap, product
planning and execution all throughout the lifecycle of the business,
which he has been able to rapidly grow and is becoming one of the
fastest growing businesses at Panduit. Raul has been with Panduit
for four years. Prior to Panduit, Raul worked at Nokia Siemens
Networks and Motorola where he was the senior director for Latin
America engineering and services. In addition, he worked at Tellabs
where he was group product manager managing the business and
product development for Enterprise and Data Center High-Speed
Optical Switches. Raul has over 25 years of telecommunications
experience and holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical
Engineering (BSEE) degree, as well as professional certifications
for Certified Data Center Design Professional (CDCDP)
and Metro Ethernet Forum Carrier Ethernet Certified
Professional (MEF-CECP). Raul has also been awarded
10 U.S. patents in telecommunications technologies and
algorithms. He can be reached at raul.pombo@panduit.com.
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1. Fingerman, Adam, The IoT 2019: Many "things" ahead,
but here are four predictions, February 15, 2019, ClickZ,
https://www.clickz.com/whats-ahead-for-iot-manythings
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