2010 Newsletter - April 2010

In this issue...

  • Service processors: Friend or Foe? Make them your best friend.
  • News: Copper Price Increase
  • Ask The Tech: Default Login on Thunderack 1U LCD and KVM units
Mirapath, Inc.
April 2010

Service processors: Friend or Foe? Make them your best friend.

Service processors such as IPMI, HP ILO, IBM RSA, Dell DRAC, ALOM, SUN, and ILOM have been around for a number of years with increasingly more capability and almost always present in servers shipped today. So why the big gap in service processors shipped compared to service processors deployed? Read the full article here Service Processors: Friend or Foe?

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Copper Price Increase

Copper is heavily used in power cord and network cable manufacturing. Since the beginning of last year, copper prices have doubled. Take a look at the London Metal Exchange. There has been a drop in copper price around February 2010. However, prices have risen back up since then.

Copper PricesMirapath has maintained steady pricing on both copper cables and power cords in the last year. We will continue to watch copper pricing and try our best to keep prices at the same levels.

The skinny on different jumper cables
Many of you already know the difference between a C13 and C14 or C19 and C20. But what is a... read more.

Should you go 208V 3 phase?
When building your datacenter you may want to consider pulling 3 phase... read more.

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Ask The Tech:

What is the default username and password on thunderack 1U LCD and KVM units?

The default username and password for all units is 00000000 (8 zeros)

Questions? Feel free to contact our support department at: 877.647.2728 or at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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