When Should You Upgrade Your Building’s Electrical Panel?
The elevators are packed, the coffee makers are humming, and your tenants’ data centers are spinning up for the day. Suddenly, click. Half the building goes dark. Breakers trip, alarms sound, tenants are calling, and every minute of downtime costs real money. Moments like these usually trace back to one unsung hero hidden in a […]
What Are the Standards for Structured Cabling?
When one bad patch cord can knock out an entire floor, “good enough” wiring quickly becomes “good luck.” Small wiring mistakes can trigger outages, slow troubleshooting, and limit how your network scales over time. That is why structured cabling standards exist. In this plain-English guide, Camali Corp’s BICSI-certified engineers explain what structured cabling standards are, […]
What Is the Difference Between Single-Phase and Three-Phase Power?
Single-phase power carries electricity on a single AC wave, while three-phase power delivers three waves offset by 120 degrees. Because at least one wave is always at peak voltage, three-phase provides steadier current and up to 73% more usable power through the same size conductors. Understanding the difference between single-phase and three-phase power is critical […]
How to Plan a Server Room Layout for Optimal Airflow?
Your e-commerce store is humming with overnight sales, and then the phones light up. The server room overheated, the core switch faltered, and revenue evaporated in minutes. Many assume the HVAC is to blame, but more often the real culprit is poor airflow management. At Camali Corp, we design, build, and maintain mission-critical environments for […]
What Happens If My Data Center AC Fails?
It’s 2:07 a.m. on a Sunday. Your phone buzzes with a high-temperature alert from the core switch. You pull up the security camera, and a sea of red LEDs flickers through the dark aisle. Somewhere behind the racks, the precision air-conditioning unit that has guarded your servers for 1,000 straight days just tripped offline. That […]
How Often Should UPS Batteries Be Replaced?
When a $2-million server stack at a New Jersey fintech firm crashed during a thunderstorm, the cause was not a power surge. A four-year-old UPS battery failed about 30 seconds too early. Incidents like this are common because many organizations treat uninterruptible power supplies as set-and-forget systems. In reality, UPS batteries are consumables with a […]