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Avoiding Disaster With Smart Power and Temperature Monitoring Systems

Power and environmental monitoring can reduce outages and downtime by keeping you abreast of operating conditions within your critical facilities at all times. You can be alerted to issues quickly before they escalate into serious problems. And you... Read More

Metered, Monitored, Switched, Smart: Comparing Types of PDUs

Power distribution units (PDUs), commonly referred to as power strips or rack mounted power distribution units (RMPDUs), are critical components within a data center's power hierarchy. They include multiple outlets that provide power to rack level... Read More

How Power Monitoring Helps Reduce Downtime

Critical facilities like data centers require a power infrastructure that is energy-efficient and cost-efficient but, above all, reliable. Downtime is expensive and even possibly "career limiting." Power problems can also result in damage to... Read More

Power Factor: The Difference Between Promise and Reality

You may be getting less power throughout your facility than you think, thanks to something known as power factor. Power factor affects power management, especially if you’re running very high power equipment such as an uninterruptible power supply... Read More

How to Pinpoint Hot Spots in Your Data Center

Hot spots in a data center must be closely monitored: let the warmest areas in your facility get too warm and you risk degraded performance, outages, and potential equipment damage. Yet they can also drive how much you spend to cool your entire data... Read More

Data Center Retrofitting: The Role of Monitoring

Data centers must meet constantly evolving needs. Trends such as increasing power density, cloud computing, edge computing, and data analytics ultimately place differing demands on the data center. This often requires that improvements be made to... Read More

[VIDEO] Convert basic PDUs into Smart PDUs in minutes

Do you have basic power strips that you wish were metered? Would you be interested in a way of upgrading your existing power strips that doesn’t require running additional wires or removing your existing equipment? Packet Power’s Smart Power Cables... Read More

We Recommend: Top 10 Reasons to Monitor Busway Tap Boxes

Energy usage data helps ensure your critical facility runs smoothly. DCIM provider, Sunbird, recently published an ebook that does a nice job of outlining the benefits of using power monitoring on overhead busways. Read More

Having Trouble Getting a Smart PDU? Packet Power Has a Solution.

If long lead times on intelligent rack PDUs are putting your deployment schedule at risk, Packet Power can help. Our Smart Power Cables are the easiest way to add power metering to any device with a plug. Combine a smart power cable with an easy to... Read More