Case Study: Choice Hotels International achieves lights-out colocation and increased uptime with Raritan

No Sleepless Nights for Choice Hotels’ Data Center Team

Choice Hotels, a global lodging company with more than 6,300 hotels and 500,000 guestrooms, moved from a traditional data center to a remote "lights-out" colocation model to cut costs and improve efficiency. The company’s mission-critical reservation system required uninterrupted service and three-nines SLAs, but the new facility was over an hour from the IT team—creating a major challenge to maintain operational control, visibility and uptime without on-site staff.

Choice deployed Raritan’s remote-management stack—intelligent rack PDUs with outlet-level power control and environmental sensors, Power IQ energy analytics, Dominion KX II KVMs, CommandCenter Secure Gateway, electronic asset management and DCIM—to create a virtual presence in the colo. The result: guaranteed uptime and SLA compliance, fewer site trips, real-time power and environmental monitoring for accurate billing and efficiency gains, quicker troubleshooting via remote KVM and power cycling, and reliable asset accountability with a standardized cabinet configuration.

Choice Hotels International