Data Centers

Future Facilities Announces Participation in Facebook’s Open Compute Project

November 14th, 2011

Future Facilities is participating in Facebook’s Open Compute Project (OCP). Started by Facebook, the Open Compute Project’s mission is to form an open IT hardware and data center design community to enable the delivery of…read more

First Solar Array Designed For High-Voltage Data Centers and Industrial Use

November 8th, 2011

IBM is rolling out the first solar-power array designed specifically to run high-voltage data centers, integrating AC- and DC-based servers, water-cooled computing systems and related electronics. The new array is spread over more than 6,000…read more

Research Center Receives Grant for Energy-Efficient Data Center

October 11th, 2011

The National Science Foundation has awarded $525,000 to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), at the University of Colorado at Boulder, to reduce the data center’s carbon footprint. NSIDC will modify its computing…read more

WEBINAR- How to Kill Your Data Center: Ignore Airflow

October 11th, 2011

Oct. 20 Future Facilities welcomes you to a live web presentation detailing airflow management basics, their effects, and the best ways to implement them. What data center management practice is mostly overlooked but can have…read more

Intelligent Asset Tags and Sensors to Keep Track of Data Center Servers

September 12th, 2011

Raritan’s new intelligent Asset Management Tag (AMT), the size of a small mailing label, adheres to a server and connects to an Asset Management Sensor (AMS) attached to a rack rail. The solution tells operators…read more

Google Reveals Energy Consumption Numbers

September 12th, 2011

Google recently disclosed that it continuously uses enough electricity to power 200,000 homes. Google’s data centers around the world continuously draw almost 260 million watts — about a quarter of the output of a nuclear…read more

Company to Supply DC Power Distribution System to Green Data Center

August 22nd, 2011

ABB will design and install an advanced, DC power distribution system for green.ch, one of the top information and communications technology (ITC) service providers in Switzerland. ABB will install a fully redundant 1 megawatt DC…read more

Webinar: Data Center CFD Modeling “MUST-DOs”

August 15th, 2011

Aug. 25 There’s a right way and a wrong way to model a data center.  Some of today’s common modeling practices overlook some of the critical elements that are required for an accurate representation of…read more

Range of Wall Rack Systems Designed for Fast Installation

July 22nd, 2011

METCASE’s new RETEX EASYRACK range of 19” wall mount racks are designed for fast installation of network cabling and electronics equipment, in data centers, office or home office applications. EASYRACK cabinets conform to IEC 60…read more

Software Delivers New ‘Search, Place and Reserve’ Tools

June 28th, 2011

Raritan’s new data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tools help managers easily find available space, power and network connectivity within their data centers in order to add or change IT equipment.  The new web-based tools in…read more

Deploying a Data Center at a Quarter of the Cost

June 13th, 2011

Offering a high-performance, energy-efficient alternative to traditional data centers at a fraction of the cost, the HP POD 240a, nicknamed the HP EcoPOD, delivers modular data center efficiency. HP EcoPOD is designed to deliver savings…read more

Learn How to Solve Data Center, Computer Room Cooling Problems

June 13th, 2011

In a typical data center more than 40% of total power consumption is spent on cooling and thermal management. This makes thermal and energy efficiency one of the most important and challenging tasks for data…read more

Data Center Used for the Development of Cloud Computing Services

June 13th, 2011

Baltic Data Center is expanding one of its centers in Vilnius. This data center, which applies KyotoCooling, a modern server cooling technology, is amongst Europe’s most ecological data centers and will be used for the…read more

Company Certified for Energy Consumption Monitoring on Product Line

May 23rd, 2011

Raritan and Universal Electric Corp. announced interoperability between Power IQ energy management software and STARLINE Track Busway, giving data center managers a more complete picture of how energy is being consumed — from the room’s…read more