Inadequate/ limited space, power, and cooling capacity have led many data centers or organizations to be acquainted with capital and operating costs for their set ups. Data centers have become an increasing part of their financial plan over time. The lack of flexibility caused by obsolete, incompetent data centers has also begun to affect businessContinue Reading …
The Hot and Cold Passage
May 11, 2012 By
Server racks and relay racks are the storage cabinet. They are integral pieces of hardware equipments in a data center. A server rack is considered to house, protect and organize a variety of computer equipment. Keeping racks and relays cool is an essential undertaking, which require hot/cold aisles. A lot of energy is wasted whenContinue Reading …
Earn Some Extra Moolah- Optimise your Chiller
April 3, 2012 By
If you browse through websites on data center information, the topics consisting of “cooling and efficiency of data center” will take away the cake. You should know that these two go hand in hand. They have to work as a team like Captain Kirk and Spock did time and again in the U.S.S Enterprise. TheContinue Reading …
How Can a Room Affect Data Center Cooling?
March 14, 2012 By
As data centers are increasingly focusing on lowering their PUE, more and more questions are being raised on how to bring down power consumption in a data center. Since cooling takes up a considerably large percent of the total power supplied to any data center, studies are being undertaken all over the world to churnContinue Reading …
Economizers- An Introduction
February 15, 2012 By
Energy costs are becoming more and more expensive by the day. The need for an intelligent, economic design and planning is not only necessary from an environmental point of view; it is also beneficial from the business point of view. It not only helps in reducing the energy costs of the data center, it alsoContinue Reading …
Scope for Evaporative Cooling in Data Centers
February 8, 2012 By
Is evaporative cooling a solution? The world has reached a time where there are some major energy shortage scares. Some may be rumours, but most of them very true. There are some critical applications which cannot be accomplished without the use of large amounts of energy. Data Centers are one and cooling them another. CoolingContinue Reading …
Data Center Cooling Accessory- Blanking Panel
January 30, 2012 By
So you decided to take our advice and revamp your data center to house the best airflow management systems. You got the best company to install hot aisle and cold aisle systems in your data center and you saw instant results. Power for cooling requirements suddenly dropped a great deal. You are on your wayContinue Reading …
Data Center Environment and Energy Thresholds
January 27, 2012 By
If you’re running a data center, there are certain environmental and energy thresholds you need to stay in line with. If you don’t have the proper operating environment, that not only drives your operating costs through the roof; it could very well cause irreparable damage to your servers. Further, if you’re using too much energy,Continue Reading …
The Inside Dirt on Raised Floors
January 23, 2012 By
Raised floors, as the name suggests, are elevated, hollow platforms that are built on top of the regular concrete floor. They are used to provide passage for electrical and mechanical services. This is mostly done to avoid littering the floor with wires and cables that are essential in a data center but you would ratherContinue Reading …
ASHRAE Mandates Use of Economizer in a Data Center
January 11, 2012 By
An economizer is a device that is used to reduce energy consumption in a data center. Be it a water- side economizer or an air- side economizer, with the astronomical electricity bills the data centers have to deal with, one can see why these devices are popular. Types Of Economizer An air- side economizer takesContinue Reading …
