November 12, 2010
Late last month, the popular e commerce service, PayPal, was knocked offline for approximately 80 minutes after undergoing what’s commonly referred to in the industry as a “crash.” As PayPal puts it, “a network hardware failure in one of our
October 04, 2010
According to who you are, and what you need, the term “data center” can have a few different meanings. For the sake of commonality, a data center is most closely associated with being a large room under high security that houses a lot of very expensive boxes with lights - the nerve center of your business...
August 20, 2010
Practical tips and strategies for managing high-density cable installations, from optimizing fill rates to selecting the right cable support systems, ensuring your data center remains efficient and organized even in the most crowded environments.
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
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 ...
August 04, 2009
I'm an application, systems management, and middleware admin if you will, so when it comes to an actual data center from the computer decking up, I have little experience, so with that, I was not sure of how to ask the question, but I was hoping for a list of document names I should expect from someone building a data center or if I built a data center. My client is very small and this is almost pro bono (small startup city).