When you hear the words 'remote management,' what picture comes to your mind? Is it your boss calling you on the phone? Is it of a marionette dancing at the end of its strings? Or is it your feet up on the desk, knowing that everything in your datacenter is under control and performing as it should? If your vision is not the last one, then you need to consider changing your datacenter design to incorporate the best the industry has to offer in the way of power distribution. This brief explores remote power management as a way of ensuring that your datacenter works for you and not the other way around.

In today's hectic world, the pace of change continues to increase. New technologies are introduced and implemented as quickly as you can read up on the topic. SDN, NFV, containers, and server virtualization are the latest trends in managing the dynamic requirements within the datacenter. In a software-defined datacenter, the ability to reconfigure networks, compute, and storage on the fly is crucial to being able to respond as rapidly as the loads change. Yet throughout that datacenter, the constant is power. It has to be in the right place, and the right time, in the right amount, every single time. No excuses. And when that SDN enabled switch suddenly locks up during the latest patch, what is the quickest way to respond? Is it calling your co-worker to go find the errant device somewhere in the datacenter and manually cycling power? That doesn't work when you are running in someone else's cloud. How about when your server freezes because the new dev-ops programmer overseas was testing his latest creation and forgot the basics of memory management? Do you make a 'remote hands' call to the colocation provider? Or do you calmly log