and services founded 1985 founder ching i hsu area served worldwide key people doug fikse president swen anderson chief technology office howard hsieh president raritan taiwan henry hsu vp product marketing and marketing dan moran vp finance andy schreiber vp global supply chain operations products power distribution kvm switches number of employees 200 500 2015 parent legrand website www.raritan.com raritan is a multinational technology company that manufactures hardware for data center power distribution remote server management and audio visual solutions . the company is headquartered in somerset new jersey and has a commercial presence in over 76 countries . raritan was acquired by legrand in september 2015 . 1 contents 1 history 2 products 3 awards and innovations 6 4 references 5 external links history edit raritan was established in 1985 when the founder ching i hsu and his wife created a business reselling pc components out of their house . this later changed from reselling to manufacturing pcs . 2 to make the manufacturing more efficient hsu developed the first kvm switch a tool that provides a way to control numerous pcs from a single product . the kvm switch advanced raritan as an international company and led to other company advancements . raritan entered the intelligent power business in 2007 . intelligent power management provides companies with an accurate measurement of the amount of energy devices use . this kind of power management is much more energy efficient because it consumes less energy produces less heat improves environmental conditions with sensors that adjust things like temperature and humidity levels and overall decrease costs . 3 in 2008 raritan s data center infrastructure management dcim business began . this software provides the ability to better manage assets change and capacity through monitoring of power the environment and energy use . 4 in june 2015 legrand north america announced an agreement to acquire raritan . the scope of the acquisition would include raritan s intelligent power and kvm businesses while its data center infrastructure management dcim software business would spin off into sunbird software a new company and strategic partner of raritan to be chaired by ching i hsu ceo and founder of raritan . the acquisition was complete on september 28 2015 . 5 products edit power distribution units metering and switching intelligent rack pdus inline meters branch circuit monitoring rack transfer switches data center infrastructure management dcim software power iq kvm switches digital kvm switch kvm over ip analog kvm switch centralized server management data center energy & environment management serial console switches console drawers awards and innovations 6 edit 2015 cnr 5 star partner program award 7th consecutive win 2014 crn s tech innovator award for data center infrastructure crn s top 100 data center for dcim software 4th consecutive win 2013 cnr data center 100 for dcim and power management solutions green it carbon project of the year for intelligent pdu & labenergy management software green it magazine product of the year for emx environmental rack controller and sensors 2012 gartner inc. s cool vendors in dcim and related tools cnr data center 100 for power management and asset change and capacity solutions references edit http www.raritan.com about us https njtcblog.files.wordpress.com 2013 03 cornerofficeapriltn.pdf http www.raritan.com products power distribution intelligent rack pdus http www.raritan.com products dcim software legrand announces agreement to acquire raritan newsroom about us raritan . www.raritan.com . retrieved 2016 04 21 . raritan awards & innovations external links edit raritan website ching i hsu interview retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title raritan inc. & oldid 730118607 categories companies based in somerset county new jerseycompanies established in 1985networking hardware companiessystem administrationnetwork managementout of band managementcomputer peripheral companieshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 16 july 2016 at 20 36 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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