SearchDataCenter.com has announced its 2009 Data Center Products of the Year. And the winners are…
Gold for the 2009 systems management product of the year
Service-Now.com, a systems management delivered as a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering that provides IT process automation and IT service management functions took away the gold.
The company has garnered customers away from its competitors by offering simple pricing plans ($100 per seat per month) and frequent, painless software upgrades.
IT managers said they loved Service-Now.com's Web-based delivery model and that the product's out-of-the-box workflow and customization options really allow the company to wrap its IT processes around the tool quickly.
2009 products of the year winning server
IBM debuted the x iDataPlex dx360 M2 server form factor in April 2008. Big Blue's latest version boasts Intel's 5500 series Nehalem processors, a factor that helped it walk away with the Gold.
Judges were impressed that this product was designed with the large-scale Web server farm in mind. The half-depth server form factor is straight out of the Yahoo-Google playbook. Also, typical Web farms don't need highly available hardware, so IBM removed the expensive high-availability features and lowered the price.
Data center infrastructure winner
In the data center power and cooling arena over the past couple of years, measurement and metrics have been hot topics, and SynapSense's Data Center Monitoring and Energy Management (SynapSoft 5.0) is a powerful tool to help IT managers track what's actually going on in their data centers.
The SynapSense data center monitoring and energy management system uses wireless sensors to monitor all the environmental aspects of the data center. IT managers can use it to assess current operating conditions, identify opportunities and quantify efficiency improvements.
The SynapSense monitoring system tracks temperature, humidity levels, dew point, subfloor air pressure differential and computer room air conditioner unit efficiency.
