Phil Tuma 3M Company, St. Paul, Minnesota The inefficiencies of legacy datacenter air cooling schemes are by now well known. New “Free Air” cooling technologies in which air is introduced to the racks in a facility or container and confined in hot and cold plena probably represent the pinnacle of air cooling efficiency, at least where climate permits them. However, development … [Read more...]
Energy Consumption of Information Technology Data Centers
Madhusudan Iyengar and Roger Schmidt IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York Many of our day-to-day activities, including Internet searches, handheld electronics usage, automated cash withdrawal, and online hotel and airline reservations, require the use of remote databases and computational infrastructure comprised of large server farms located at some faraway location from the consumer. … [Read more...]
iPhone App for Data Center Managers
Raritan’s Power IQ® iPhone app helps data center and lab managers “on the go” quickly view real-time power load (watts and amps) and perform secure remote power control on any server or rack power distribution unit. A live-demo feature is also provided on the iPhone app, which enables users to try the app using servers running in Raritan’s IT Lab. Download the app from iTunes. … [Read more...]
Silicon Valley’s Newest (Freezing Cold) secret Data Center
Equinix, one of the biggest data center hosting companies, recently spent $103 million on the first phase of a brand new data center inside a vast warehouse building in San Jose, Calif. The data center will eventually be the host for the computer servers of hundreds of startups. The location will serve a wide array of companies: telecommunications firms, web sites, mobility … [Read more...]
AFCEA Cuts Data Center Power and Cooling Costs in Half
The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA International) has reduced its physical and carbon footprint by transitioning its data center infrastructure into a virtualized environment. The consolidation cut AFCEA’s data center from 12 servers to two principal servers and two backup servers. The streamlined operations reduced both energy consumption and … [Read more...]
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