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 a whole floor, “good enough” wiring quickly becomes “good luck.” Gartner estimates the average cost of network downtime at $5,600 per minute. The fix? Follow proven structured cabling standards. In this plain-English guide, Camali Corp’s BICSI-certified engineers break down the core rules, the ROI, and a step-by-step […]
What Is the Difference Between Single-Phase and Three-Phase Power?
Single-phase power carries electricity on one AC wave, while three-phase power uses three equal waves 120° apart. Because at least one wave is always at peak voltage, three-phase delivers steadier current and up to 73% more usable power through the same size conductors. Why This Question Matters You switch on the shop lights, fire up […]
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 missed a beat, and revenue evaporated in minutes. Fact: 93% of unplanned data-center outages cost $1,000 or more per minute (Uptime Institute, 2024). Most blame the HVAC, but nine times out of ten the […]
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 culprit wasn’t a power surge, it was a four-year-old UPS battery that died 30 seconds too soon. Camali Corp was called in to investigate. What we found is typical: businesses assume an uninterruptible power supply is “set and forget.” […]