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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

Detect Issues Instantly with EMX Policies & 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

Choose the Right Wireless Protocol for Your Data Center

Wireless monitoring networks for data centers have specific requirements that are not always obvious and can be painful if ignored. Packet Power has spent years building and running large scale wireless monitoring systems for data centers and found... Read More

Fujitsu UK Recognized Again for Power Monitoring Innovation

We are pleased to see that Fujitsu UK's innovative use of Packet Power's wireless data center monitoring solutions continues to gain recognition. Read More

Packet Power Unveils First Wireless DC Power Monitors

Packet Power now offers data centers, telcos and cable companies an easy and cost-effective way to capture energy usage on 48V and 380V DC circuits. Read More