Future Facilities, a provider of data center design and operational management software, has partnered with Intel to integrate a 3-D data center model known as Virtual Facility with the new thermal sensors Intel is embedding…read more
New Liquid Cooling System Based on Rocket-Cooling Technology
September 20th, 2012
Researchers at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) based out of the University of California, San Diego have developed a new approach to cooling computer servers. Based on rocket-cooling technology, the Cool-Flo…read more
Water Consumption in Liquid-Cooled Data Centers Remains a Concern
September 20th, 2012
Though water is not used by all data centers, it is a critical component for some data center cooling systems and overuse of it can potentially affect area water supplies. Large data centers using evaporative…read more
Cloud Computing May Solve Data Center Cooling Cost Issues
September 10th, 2012
InformationWeek Reports, a service provider for peer-based IT research and analysis, recently released its “2012 State of the Data Center” report, which contains the results of its annual State of the Data Center Survey and…read more
Intel, South Korean Mobile Carrier Make Temperatures Climb in Data Centers
September 7th, 2012
Intel and South Korean mobile carrier KT have partnered to investigate the possibility of running data centers at a hotter temperature than normal in an effort to reduce the cost of cooling and power. Traditionally,…read more
New Online Guide Provides Alternative Server Room Cooling Solution
September 7th, 2012
MovinCool®, a brand of DENSO Corporation, announced the publication of “How to Avoid IT System Failures Due to Equipment Overheating: Using Ceiling-Mount Spot Air Conditioners as a Cost Effective Way of Cooling Server Rooms”, a…read more
Intel Servers Successfully Cooled in Mineral Oil Bath
September 6th, 2012
After a one-year trial period, Intel has approved the idea of cooling servers by dunking them in mineral oil. Created by Green Revolution Cooling (GRC), the liquid cooling system, known as CarnotJet, removes heat from…read more
Simplified Data Center Rack Cooling Management
June 25th, 2012
The C degree Flow™ strip from Telect simplifies the managing of data center rack temperatures and increases cooling efficiencies. Using the strip’s inherent and bold color-shifting properties, a technician can easily assess data center temperatures…read more
Server Failures Don’t Rise Along With the Heat
June 11th, 2012
Researchers at the University of Toronto, who studied data on equipment failures at data centers operated by Google, Los Alamos National Labs, and Canada’s SciNet HPC consortium, conclude that the effect of high data center…read more
Ten Common Data Center Surprises
April 9th, 2012
Emerson Network Power released a list of 10 common surprises for data center and IT managers and offered tips on how to be prepared for them. Those high-density predictions finally are coming true: After rapid…read more
Data Center Technology Controls Temp by Moving Software Workloads
March 9th, 2012
Facebook is exploring a technology that controls temperatures in the data center by automatically moving software workloads among servers according to the air pressure on either side of each machine. The system uses a load…read more
New Version of Software for Modeling Data Centers
February 7th, 2012
Daat Research Corp has released v5.0 of its CoolitDC CFD thermal modeling software for data centers. Daat has increased preprocessor performance to permit building larger models in less time. CoolitDC v5.0 adds a new turbulence…read more
New Data Center Infrastructure Management Software
February 7th, 2012
Raritan introduced dcTrack® 2.6 DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) software with new intelligent connectivity management capabilities to help data center professionals manage both network and power connections more efficiently. With better visibility of end-to-end connections…read more
Wireless Shortcut to Avoid Data Center Traffic Jams
January 17th, 2012
To better handle data center congestion, researchers are testing a shortcut that doesn’t involve costly rewiring. They are experimenting with wireless links, mounted atop the server racks, to supply extra bandwidth for moving data along…read more
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