Data Centre Special Report
Data Centre Managers need up to date knowledge of effective cooling techniques. Data integrity and energy conservation depend on it.
Aisle containment is widely regarded as a key tool in air flow management for efficient cooling. But what approaches are the most effective in achieving effective cold aisle containment?
Dataracks teamed up with GEA Denco to run a trial to find out.
Our report is now available free of charge. Simply click here to download a copy of the report.
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Around the clock efficiency
Data centres need to operate efficiently round the clock, and even a few seconds of downtime can have huge consequences. One financial services company estimated that if its system went down it would lose the equivalent of £5m in bank transactions per second.
eCool Solutions can help maintain cool temperatures for up to an hour after a cooling failure, providing a valuable safety margin.
Energy efficiency
A Tier 4 data centre has just 24 minutes over 12 months of acceptable failure; any minor outage creates huge consequences.
Data centre managers may be aware that almost three quarters of equipment failures are due to the effects of excessive temperatures and humidity.
What data centre managers often don’t realise is how much energy they could save through better organisation of their data centre cooling strategies.
eCool provides the most energy efficient solutions to these challenges through innovative approaches to airflow management.
Our solution improves the environment of the data centre to improve the flow of cooled air through the racking and aisles. It maintains consistent optimum cool air working temperatures.
Keeping equipment in data centres at an efficient working temperature is critical to its performance. The equipment including servers and hard disk drives is prone to failure at temperatures much above 30 deg C, causing directory loss, bad sectors and disk failure, yet keeping equipment cool is energy intensive.
Are you:
- Guarding against failure of the computer room air conditioning (CRAC) units by keeping spare units on stand-by, resulting in considerable equipment redundancy?
- Over-cooling your data centre to allow for variation, perhaps creating additional problems as varying temperature create humidity and even condensation?
If you are adopting one of these common approaches to equipment cooling, you need to talk to us now, to see how you could benefit from a more energy efficient and cost effective approach.
Dataracks’ eCool methodology results in rapid payback outcomes by using state-of-the-art airflow management techniques to keep IT equipment consistently cool.
eCool makes it possible to maintain a consistent temperature, overcoming the problems of humidity, static and condensation, and reducing equipment failure.
Take a free survey
To demonstrate what eCool Solutions will save on energy bills alone, Dataracks provides a baseline environmental survey.
Using thermal imaging, temperature, and humidity monitoring, Dataracks will analyse the conditions within the aisles, between the aisles and assess the impact on the entire data centre.
You can see for the first time what is causing equipment failures and high fuel bills - and most importantly, do something about it.
Implementation of eCool Solutions can be rapid: a typical row of 10 racks could be completed in four hours.
For an independent view of best practice in airflow management, see the Uptime Institute web site at: http://uptimeinstitute.org
To arrange a survey call us on
0800 583 5026 or complete the form below.