Packet Power Blog

Helping Involta manage power in eight data centers for hundreds of clients

Co-location companies need the ability to track power usage at the cabinet level to accurately bill customers, meet their SLAs, and plan for growth. Involta, a rapidly growing multi-tenant data center services provider, wanted one monitoring... Read More

How to grow into data center monitoring without breaking your budget or your career

Data center power and environmental monitoring can be a daunting project, but it shouldn’t be! It should be a simple and low risk proposition, quickly providing tangible benefits. Many of our customers have done it. We distilled their experiences... Read More

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

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

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 the industry's 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