Packet Power Blog

How Data Realty helps its customers avoid unplanned outages

One of the things that can keep co-location data center managers up at night is the worry that customers will unknowingly exceed their capacity and trip a breaker resulting in the possibility of an unplanned outage. Read More

DC in the DC

Direct Current has been an intermittently hot topic in the Data Center community for over a decade, yet it remains relatively unknown. It is finally beginning to change and many of our customers are starting to consider and actually deploy DC... Read More

Thank you!

Americans will be celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow. It's about more than eating too much food, watching football (American style) on television and shopping. It's a time to express thanks. Read More

Optimize your data center cooling safely, easily and cost effectively

Cooling represents one of the largest portions of data center energy usage -- 20-35% on average. Most data centers are overcooled with ambient temperatures kept at the lower end of ASHRAE guidelines. ASHRAE 2011 Thermal Guidelines for Data... Read More

What do you need to know to manage your data center more effectively?

You probably need to know which circuits could handle more power and which are at risk of tripping. Are you also being asked to reduce cooling costs but aren't sure where you can safely increase ambient temperature? How confident are you in your... Read More

Track rack temperature in the right places and for the right price

Accurate information on rack-level temperature in your data center can help lower operating costs, avoid outages and meet SLA agreements. Packet Power's wireless Environmental Monitor makes getting that information easy. And it costs as much as 70%... Read More

How to set hundreds of alerts in less than 60 seconds

You know realtime alerts are critical for running your data center. But to be really useful they can't take too long to set up or result in false notifications. Packet Power's EMX Energy Portal application has a unique Policies tool that allows an... Read More

Something's wrong! Find out immediately using EMX Policies and Alerts

Circuit aproaching overload? Intake temperature way too high? When something is going wrong in your data center, you need to be notified immediately. Packet Power's EMX Energy Portal application makes this easy even for very large monitoring... Read More

Price power in your data center to propel profits

How you charge for power is one of the most important pricing decisions you make as a hosting company. Whether you allocate costs based on energy used (kWh), the maximum load your facility must provide (peak kVA), typical usage (average hourly W) or... Read More