Packet Power Blog

Helping Involta Manage Power Across Eight Data Centers

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

Welcome to a wealth of Packet Power support resources

How do I install an environmental monitor? What's the process to configure IP addresses for the Ethernet Gateway? How do I access SNMP or Modbus data? How big is a Gateway? Great questions. The newly revamped Packet Power Support page provides... Read More

Grow Into Data Center Monitoring Without Breaking Your Budget

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

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