Liquid Cooling

Liquid Cooing: Powerful Cooling for Today’s Data Center Abstract Organizations are increasingly evaluating and implementing liquid cooling solutions to meet the heat challenges of blade servers and high-density computing. Liquid cooling solutions utilize air/liquid heat exchangers to provide quiet, uniform, effective cooling. Many IT professionals list cooling as a top issue in data center management,

Data Center Cooling Strategies

Data center cooling is a hot topic. When you consider the challenges of cooling the latest generation servers, growing cost of infrastructure equipment, and ever growing concern around energy efficiency, it’s easy to understand the focus. Topics Covered: Best Practice Data Center Cooling Approaches Available Cooling Technologies Available Cooling Systems

Enclosure Strategies for Efficiency

Historically, Data Center managers didn’t invest much thought in their deployment of server racks beyond basic functionality, air flow, and the initial cost of the rack itself. Today, the widespread deployment of high-density configurations is causing major hot spot concerns and capacity issues. These factors, along with the high cost of power, require a sound

Data Center Measurement – Building An ROI Baseline

Establishing a baseline measurement of your data center is an important first step in developing a meaningful ROI for any data center project. The cost of energy has recently exceeded the cost of IT equipment; understanding your energy footprint in terms of power consumption and cooling demand has become an important management tool. Measuring and

Chill Off Revisited

Accenture reported on an event hosted by Sun Microsystems assessing four energy-efficient modular, scalable server rack cooling systems for data centers. During this “Chill-Off”, the four solutions were evaluated under a range of conditions reflecting different inlet air temperatures and server loads, and for the appropriate systems, elevated chilled water temperatures. The rack density measured

Avocent DSView 3 Upgrades to 3.6

Managing your data center has just become easier! The new DSView 3 includes benefits ranging from labor-saving features such as consolidated access of physical and virtual servers, integrated virtual machine and power management support, and myriad out-of-band hardware support options…all in ONE tool. Dan Baxter, Senior Sales Engineer for Avocent, reviews the new features and

Video Splitter

Video Splitters-The Basics Video Splitter Products Let You Share Your Computer or Video Output A video splitter is a device that takes one signal from a video source and replicates it over multiple monitors. The number of times that a video splitter divides the signal varies; video splitters currently on the market provide divisions for

ENERGY STAR for Data Centers

Energy use in data centers is increasing rapidly. In 2006, energy consumption to operate IT equipment and data center facilities represented 61 billion kWh or approximately $6 billion in annual expenditures. This accounts for 1.5% of total U.S. electricity consumption and is projected to increase to 100 billion kWh by 2011. To assist data center

CFD Modeling

Data Center Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) vs. Real Time Monitoring, Which Makes More Sense? What is CFD? Computational Fluid Dynamics, or CFD, is a technique used to model fluid flow using numerical analysis techniques. Through an iterative process, fluid flow is predicted based on how minute volumes, or voxels, interact with each other and surrounding

Optimizing your IT Infrastructure

In a recent survey by the Uptime Institute, 42% of enterprise data center managers reported that they would run out of power capacity within 24 months. This statistic isn’t surprising when you consider that today’s IT hardware requires more power-distribution air conditioning and UPS capacity than in the past. What steps is your data center