Packet Power Blog

Shower or Bath? IP44 vs. IP67

Data center power connectors have several attributes. Maximum amperage and voltage are obvious, as is whether the conductor supports 3, 4 or 5 wires. You will also often see an "IP" designation, typically IP44 or IP67. Read on if you've ever... Read More

What Keeps You Up at Night?

Most people deploy data center monitoring to help spot problems before they become severe, but effectively monitoring a data center can be a challenge. We want to help make your job easier. So please tell us what keeps you up at night. Read More

Optimal Data Center Monitoring

Data center infrastructure monitoring is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. There are many parameters you could monitor: power, energy, temperature, humidity, pressure, etc. There are also multiple levels in physical and organizational hierarchy... Read More

Volta Data Centres Uses Power – To Power Growth

Volta Data Centres, located in central London, has developed two innovative ways to use power as a point of differentiation to its prospective clients. This helped increase occupancy by 250% in 2015. Read More

Volta Data Centres Nominated for DCS Awards

We are pleased to learn that Volta Data Centres, a London-based co-location services provider, has been nominated for two 2016 DCS awards. Read More

A Low-Cost Way to Monitor High-Value Circuits

There are many reasons to monitor power in data centers ranging from monitoring the state of critical equipment to calculating energy efficiency metrics such as PUE. So what do you do when the data you need isn't available because the switchgear,... Read More

Reader's Choice: Top 5 Blog Posts

Who can resist "top 5" lists? We can't. So we're sharing Packet Power's five most popular blog posts. Read More

An Exciting New Option for RPP, PDU, and Panel Retrofits

Do you have 42-pole panels in RPPs, PDUs or on the wall that you wish were monitored? Packet Power now offers a simple way to add full power monitoring at the branch circuit level to existing equipment. Read More

Study on Server Room Energy Efficiency with Packet Power

Energy is one of the highest costs in data centers -- even the small ones. Server rooms and data closets (known as "small embedded data centers") are one of the fastest growing end users of electrical energy in commercial buildings in the United... Read More