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 ...

July 22, 2010

CPI’s purpose is “To Delight the Customer”. This is our motivation for every product, solution and improvement we make. One improvement you may notice very soon is an update to our website home page. This update will be one step ...

July 20, 2010

This past Thursday I received an email from ENERGYSTARdatacenters@icfi.com, along with a copy of “Recommendations for Measuring and Reporting Overall Data Center Efficiency: Version 1”, as did, I suspect a million or so of my closest colleagues in the data center and related industries. The note referenced a January meeting of ...

July 16, 2010

Would you like to measure your power usage even though you are using basic power distribution units? Chatsworth offers a product that allows you upgrade basic and metered PDUs with an in line current meter for network based current monitoring. Watch the video.

July 13, 2010

The Greenest Supercomputer On the Planet --  The photo is enough to capture your attention, but the explanation is just as interesting. A colleague came across this article by Kyle VanHemert on Gizmodo.com and figured that other CPI ...

July 08, 2010

Last week the Uptime Institute released a new international operational sustainability standard for data center owners, operators and managers titled, Tier Standard Operational Sustainability. According to the Uptime Institute Website, this Standard addresses the facility’s management behaviors and risks that ...

July 01, 2010

In January we kicked off a special sweepstake promotion featuring our Enterprise Infrastructure products. And, just like the temperature outside, the contest is heating up! ...