July 28, 2010
What is the one the thing a typical data center operator can do to improve data center cooling efficiency? Well, there’s one simple phrase, divide and conquer. Look at the hot aisle / cold aisle data design that was intended to separate ...
June 11, 2010
Chatsworth Products has a variety of resources that many of our customers find very useful when it comes to planning, designing or expanding their current information technology infrastructure. Many are found on our website, while others may involve a site ...
April 21, 2010
Tomorrow is Earth Day. Chances are you already knew that, but then again, maybe you didn’t. Quite honestly I knew it was coming up but I had to turn to my pal Google to find out just what day it ...
April 13, 2010
The Green Grid, in collaboration with worldwide government and industry organizations, designated power usage effectiveness (PUE) as the global metric for measuring data center efficiency according to ...
April 05, 2010
CPI loves your custom designs ... Chatsworth Products, Inc. (CPI) has seen a rise in requests for custom configurations over the course of the last several years. Data Center, Facility, Datacom, and IT managers are demanding solutions that meet their ...
February 23, 2010
It never ceases to amaze me how creative our customers can be when they are faced with an installation issue. Over the years, I have seen or heard of multiple unique and creative applications of our products to solve specific ...
February 09, 2010
Many of our customers use Microsoft Visio software for equipment layouts. To assist our customers, we provide complimentary Visio shapes of many of our more popular products. But there may be those of you who do not use Visio and would like to know more.
January 27, 2010
What if you could reduce the lighting requirements in your data center by 30%, what would this save you? Let’s suppose you have a data center space that is ~5500 sq ft with a total IT load of ~475kW. What would it mean to you to reduce your lighting load by 30% given that this is about 5% of the total power consumed within the space? But more importantly how can you do this without impacting IT personnel when they are working within the space? ...
January 07, 2010
What we offer and how it works to make your data center design better:
Grounding - CPI offers a wide variety of grounding and bonding equipment from pipe clamps withof from pipe clamps with ground conductors, pedestal clamps with ground conductors, antioxidant ...
September 03, 2009
Question: We are currently calculating PUE on a monthly basis and I am looking for ways to make the information more meaningful to others in IT. What type of metrics are you using to show how PUE effects the green effort?
Answer: Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is useful as a benchmark for making comparisons ...