Cooling blade servers and high density servers

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Chapter 3: Data center cooling

Cooling blade servers and high density servers

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  • Heat relief for data centers using blades

    Tip -  Blade servers are hot—literally—and creating a living hell for some data centers. As data center managers stew over the problem created by these high-density servers, vendors are scrambling (and finding huge revenue opportunities) to develop...

  • Egenera rolls out new blades, liquid cooled chassis

    26 Jan 2006

    Article -  Blade server specialist Egenera unveiled a new line of high-performance blade servers, as well as a new chassis option, that uses liquid cooling technology from Liebert. This is the second server vendor in recent months to invest in liquid cooling.

  • Will consolidating onto blades reduce heating loads?

    Ask the Expert -  Consolidating to high density blade servers can be a big step towards streamlining your data center. But data center managers need to research how to cool these servers. Bob Macfarlane explains.

  • Cooling blade servers

    Tip -  Expert Robert McFarlane explains what's needed to cool blade servers.

  • Blades in your data center?

    Tip -  There are many misconceptions about blades and some truisms that are misunderstood. Expert Carrie Higbie brings you the truth.

  • Cooling high-density racks

    Tip -  Cooling expert Steve Madara explains why it's good to be concerned about the heat from high-density racks in the data center, and what to do to optimize your existing cooling technologies.