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Packet Power Goes to Vegas for Gartner DC Conference

We are delighted to be attending the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas this week.  If you are there and feel like placing a winning bet on data center monitoring, let our CEO know at steve @ packetpower.com!

RT Systems Brings Packet Power to South Africa's Data Centers

We are pleased to announce RT Systems as our partners in South Africa.  Data centers in South Africa face rapidly escalating power costs, and RT Systems has the expertise needed to help them use wireless monitoring to more effectively manage their energy usage.

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Sign Up for a Webinar on Data Center Monitoring Made Easy

Please join Electronic Environments and Packet Power for a complimentary webinar:

 Data Center Power Monitoring Made Easy  

 Today's data center operators have to contend with delivering far more power per square foot of space, as well as delivering it more efficiently. Join us and you will walk away with great tips on how to use power monitoring to:
 

• Improve operational effectiveness
• Better allocate power costs
• Extend the life of your data center
  

You will also get:

• A comparison of data center power monitoring options
• Benefits of wireless power monitoring
• Simple ways to use monitoring data

 Don't miss out, space is limited!
 

 

 

If the button doesn't work for you, copy and paste the following url into your browser to register: http://blog.eecnet.com/data-center-power-monitoring-made-easy/

For more information on our partner Electronic Environments, please see www.eecnet.com.

Packet Power Featured on TECHdotMN TV

TECHdotMN TV is a weekly video highlighting different aspects of the tech community in Minnesota.  Packet Power is featured in the Oct 14 broadcast (the Packet Power bit starts at 8:45). 

TECHdotMN TV Episode 6: Twenty-Four from TECHdotMN on Vimeo.

Thanks to Jeff, Mike and the rest of the TECHdotMN team for including us.

Data Center Monitoring Made Easier - New "Policies" Feature

The new "policies" feature of Power Manager makes it easy to define and manage how you will be notified when problems occur in even very large data centers. 

With policies, you can define power and temperature guidelines once and apply them to entire data centers.  To allow for the inevitable exceptions, Power Manager allows you to "opt out" of a policy at the cabinet level. 

As an example, you can quickly define a policy that will alert you when power or current exceeds 40% of a circuit's rated capacity.  Once defined, you can "turn the policy on" for an entire data center and "turn the policy off" for those cabinets in that data center that don't have redundant power (and then perhaps "turn on" a second policy that would notify you at 80% of the rated capacity on the circuits in those cabinets).

Policies can be created to manage current and power measured at the circuit or device levels, general temperature, and for customers using our Environmental Monitor, inflow temperature and relative humidity.  You can set policies based on relative criteria (a % of total as in the example above) or on fixed values.  Each policy can be assigned one of 5 severity levels.

When a policy violation occurs, you can choose to be notified via email and on the my.packetpower.com portal or through the portal only.  Learn more about how this new feature helps Power Manager continue to set the standard for powerful data center power and temperature monitoring made easy in the short video below.

Web Reporting Available on my.packetpower.com

Analyzing power usage has never been easier!

We are delighted to announce the ability to produce reports directly from the my.packetpower.com web portal.  Report on a wide range of information including power usage, power quality, temperature, CO2 emissions and power costs.  You can easily generate links to use to share reports or export report data for further analysis. 

Without the need to download any software, you can now quickly create detailed reports at the individual cable level.  Customers using the Power Manager data center layout program can also include information from their Power Manager layouts including rooms, cabinets, tags and devices.

Learn all about it in the short video below.

SecureData 365 Provides Real-Time Power Monitoring with Packet Power

Our customer SecureData 365 offers these comments on why they use Packet Power's monitoring solution:

SecureData 365 (www.securedata365.com) operates a purpose-built facility designed to provide advanced services for clients. One key advantage we offer in our colocation services is real-time monitoring and alerting on power, temperature, and environmental conditions of our data center. SecureData 365 has provided this monitoring through power distribution strips. However, some clients wish to use their own power distribution equipment. PacketPower provides us with the means to deliver the same advanced monitoring, in an easy-to-install and easy-to-use system that can work with any vendors eqiupment.

During our vendor selection process, the PacketPower solution earned our business by providing metrics that were not available in competing products. Simply placing the PacketPower in-line with each cabinet's power feed allows us to deliver a consistent service offering to all of our clients. Most recently, we were able to use the Packet Power smart power cables to cost-effectively add power monitoring to circuits coming off our Starline power bus.

 

Packet Technologies NZ to Offer Packet Power Solutions

Packet Technologies to bring Packet Power's advanced wireless data center monitoring solution to New Zealand data centres  http://bit.ly/mvMeYc

Data Center Power Monitoring Made Easy - New Video

We put this short video together to convey how Packet Power makes it easy and affordable to monitor data center power and temperature.  Enjoy!

Lower your data center energy costs by raising the temperature

Here's an excerpt from a brief article by Brian Renwick on how raising the ambient air temperature in your data center can significantly lower energy costs. Note that as the temperature increases, so does the need to closely monitor it.  Do that monitoring with Packet Power and you will save even more money - our wireless temperature and humidity monitors cost 30% less than most others. 

The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) maintains guidelines on proper operating temperature ranges for server rooms. Way back in 2004, their recommendation was to keep the temperature somewhere between 68-77 degrees Fahrenheit. A more recent update in 2008 expanded the envelope, suggesting that a range of 64 - 80 degrees was acceptable. This range was expanded after looking at IT manufacturer data. Running at a temperature closer to the higher end of the range will not compromise the overall availability of your IT equipment.

So what does this change mean to you? Quite simply, a huge savings opportunity. It's estimated that for every megawatt that is used to power a data center, another 0.5 to 1 megawatt is consumed in maintaining the proper temperature. Because it can be difficult knowing the temperature at any one location in the room, most companies simply turn the air conditioner up as high as they can. It's a fact that companies can save 4-5% in energy costs for every 1 degree increase in server inlet temperature.

You can find the full article here:  http://bit.ly/i3dMMh