Industry News: Can You Heat Homes with Data Centers?

December 21, 2011 Here's a burning question on the minds of researchers at Microsoft and the University of Virginia: can the hot exhaust air from power-hungry servers be used to heat residential homes and businesses during cold months? Better still, at what cost to the consumer? A new white paper seeks to investigate, while CPI wonders if we too can warm to the idea. Read more in today's latest CPI blog article...

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CPI 2011 Holiday Schedule

December 19, 2011

As many of us look forward to spending quality time with family and friends this holiday season, Chatsworth Products, Inc. (CPI) would like to take a moment to inform our customers and colleagues about some important holiday closings and temporary schedule changes during this festive time. 

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Getting Hands-On with Tablets in the Data Center

December 07, 2011

This holiday season, Chatsworth Products, Inc. (CPI) is making a list, checking it twice, and finding out whose touchscreen tablets need some sound advice. After all, one of the year’s hottest holiday gifts does much more than just surf the web, check email and play Angry Birds – it makes for one heck of an on-the-job tool in the planning and installation of IT infrastructure storage in a computer/equipment room or data center. Read how in today's CPI blog article...

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An In-Depth Look at the World of BIM (Building Information Modeling)

December 01, 2011 These days, it seems like 3D is everywhere. At the movies, in video games, built straight into our high-definition, impossibly thin flat-screen TV's. But for the 3D we have in mind, there's a much more practical use - 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) Drawings to assist in the planning and layout of your next data center build or upgrade. Get details on our ever-increasing library of drawings, see how BIM influences design down to the rack level and much more in today's latest blog article from CPI...

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