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Data Center Design – A CFO’s Perspective
There’s a direct link between business and technology capabilities. Thus, your ability to compete in a digitally enabled world revolves around the skills of your data center design. IT leaders have...
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Dealing With A Variety of Data Center Rack Sizes and Models
Containment is not as ubiquitous as the EIA rack. While there are a variety of reasons for some remaining industry intransigence, cost and ineffectiveness are not defensible. Airflow containment will...
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Data Center Cooling Market Will Grow to $14 Billion by 2021
Let’s be clear here; there is almost no slowdown in the data center market. In fact, research from Jones Lang LaSalle indicates that mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the data center sector surged...
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Airflow Management for Single Row Data Centers
Going back to Labor Day week, I have crafted a series of six blogs exploring different barriers to data center air containment and explained how to overcome those obstacles while still producing...
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Data Center Liquid Cooling Market Is Heating Up!
I love discussing the concept of liquid cooling. Moreover, to be honest, we hear about a great many more conversations and use-cases regarding the deployment of liquid cooling solutions. Consider this,...
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A Little Data Center Containment Can Go A Long Way
Some data center airflow containment is better than no containment at all. Usually. Under the right conditions. I have always been a proponent of maximizing cold and hot air separation in data centers....
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Where To Start Airflow Management In the Data Center
The most effective place to start an airflow management improvement initiative is not actually anywhere in the data center. Instead, the first steps toward investing in optimized airflow management...
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Data Center Security Means Preventing Breaches and Outages
We’re going to take a couple of interesting approaches when it comes to keeping our data centers healthy. Throughout my experience in working with a variety of data center and cloud environments,...
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Smaller Data Centers Require Efficiency Too
There’s definitely been a trend over the course of the past year. I’ve seen more organizations across almost every vertical and size further invest in their IT ecosystem. And, if you think these...
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A Case Study for Correcting Non-Compliant Data Center Airflow Patterns
Every data center industry standard and best practice compilation specifies the importance of having all rack-mounted equipment breathe from front to rear. The minor exception is the telco standard,...
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How the Edge Is Changing Data Center Design
The distribution of IT is not anything new. However, the concept of the edge is something to which we should pay attention. Many organizations are now looking for better ways to deliver rich content to...
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The Different Data Center Delta Ts
Just as “Diversification” is always a good answer to what makes a good investment portfolio and just as “balance” is always a good answer to what makes an efficient football offense, so ΔT is still a...
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All-Flash Solutions Are Removing Legacy Components – And Improving Data...
In 2018, all-flash solutions continue to be all the rage. In fact, we’ve seen in them in stand-alone deployments and, more so, in converged infrastructure solutions. Organizations across the board are...
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The Primary Data Center Delta Ts
The data center is a living, breathing organism. Depending on who we ask, the breath that brings life to the data center could be either electricity or data and that debate is fraught with chicken and...
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Are You Prepared for Hyperscale Data Centers?
More organizations are looking for better ways to scale their businesses. Moreover, a big part of their strategy will entirely revolve around the data center. With that in mind – organizations have...
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The Secondary Data Center Delta Ts
Data center airflow management effectiveness is most directly indicated by two temperature differential (ΔT) measurements: the temperature rise of air through IT equipment and the difference between...
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Learn Why Modular Airflow Containment Makes Sense
The fun part about working with data centers is the diversity in the designs that we see. Yes, there is lots of standardization and best practices when it comes to design. However, many data centers...
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The Four Data Center Delta Ts: Dollars and Sense
Data center health is frequently discussed in terms of PUE, but a PUE check-up can be sort of like checking a corpse for a pulse, particularly when we consider that an honest and educated practitioner...
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Data Center Rack Density Increases and Cooling Evolves
Almost every data center project these days is revolving around the demand for more utilization while focusing on improved efficiency. That is, do more – while still being economical. This means...
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Is Your Data Center PUE Just PU?
For the benefit of anyone who may have joined the conversation somewhere in the middle, let me remind everyone that the purpose of the PUE (power usage effectiveness) metric was initially proposed to...
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