Packet Power Blog

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... Read More

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... Read More

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... Read More

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 Read More

Data Center Power Monitoring Made Easy

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

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... Read More

Know your Data Center Power, Part 3 - Single phase vs. three phase

Let’s use our water pipe analogy again: imagine an “AC water” system that delivers alternating pulses of water pressure and vacuum in a closed loop system, using two pipes. Water flows to the receiver (some sort of a hydraulic engine) through one... Read More

Australian Customer OMNIconnect blogs about Packet Power

OMNIconnect, a data center operator in Australia that we have worked with for almost a year, featured Packet Power in their blog. Check it out here. Read More

Know Your Power, Part 2 – AC/DC and the Power Factor

Most data centers today use AC (Alternating Current) power. The current within an AC system flows in one direction, reverses, flows backward and then forward again 50 or 60 times a second, depending on what country you’re in. That means that voltage... Read More