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Helping Involta manage power in eight data centers for hundreds of clients
Packet Power Team: Jan 28, 2016 9:30:00 AM
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...
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How to grow into data center monitoring without breaking your budget or your career
Paul Bieganski: Jan 12, 2016 11:00:00 AM
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...
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How Data Realty helps its customers avoid unplanned outages
Packet Power Team: Dec 9, 2015 11:00:00 AM
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.
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Optimize your data center cooling safely, easily and cost effectively
Packet Power Team: Nov 17, 2015 12:00:00 PM
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...
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Track rack temperature in the right places and for the right price
Steve VanTassel: Oct 21, 2015 12:00:00 PM
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%...
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