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Chapter 3: Data center cooling

This guide offers the latest advice from data center cooling experts. Stop wasting your data center cooling capacity; learn about high density cooling technologies in this guide.



BROWSE SUBCATEGORIES:	Overview (2), Data center cooling metrics and design (10), Raised floor cooling (6), Mitigating data center hotspots (5), Cooling blade servers and high density servers (6), Data center liquid cooling (8)


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Data center cooling guide
This guide offers the latest advice from data center cooling experts. Stop wasting your data center cooling capacity; learn about high density cooling technologies in this guide.

Data center cooling strategies audiocast
This audio cast series tackles the latest data center cooling issues with Liebert Corporation's data center cooling expert Steve Madara.


Data center cooling metrics and design: 1 - 3 of 10

Using ASHRAE specs for data center metrics
SearchDataCenter.com | 26 Jul 2006
TIP - Measure proper temperature and humidity using Ashrae's Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments.

Fears of cooling with outside air may be unfounded
SearchDataCenter.com | 04 Dec 2006
ARTICLE - The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will finish a study by the end of the year looking at the potential benefits and drawbacks of using outside air to cool a data center.

Improved airflow cools off overheated data center
SearchDataCenter.com | 30 Jan 2007
ARTICLE - With systems on the brink of burning up, Osram Sylvania made small changes to its data center layout that kept servers cool -- and saved them money to boot.

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Raised floor cooling: 1 - 3 of 6

Raised floor bests overhead cooling, IBM finds
SearchDataCenter.com | 06 Feb 2007
ARTICLE - According to a recent study by IBM researchers, raised-floor cooling in high-density data centers ensures lower air intake temperatures for servers than overhead cooling systems.

Is your cabling ruining your efficiency?
SearchDataCenter.com | 28 Jul 2005
TIP - Cables degrade over time. Discover what you can do so won't steam up or error out.

How popular are grate-type tiles in a data center's raised floor design?
SearchDataCenter.com | 27 Apr 2006
TIP - I don't see mentioned too often the use of grate-type perforated tiles such as Tate's GrateAire that offers a 58% open area as opposed to the typical 25% perforated tile open area in raised-floor data center designs.. Is...

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Mitigating data center hotspots: 1 - 3 of 5

Additional air conditioners still not cooling hot areas
SearchDataCenter.com | 27 Apr 2006
TIP - We have installed additional air conditioners in our data center, but it hasn't made much of a difference in the hot areas. Our cabinets are installed face-to-face and back-to-back as we see recommended for hot...

Data center cooling strategies: Overheating server prevention
SearchDataCenter.com | 25 Jan 2007
TIP - Five strategies from Syska Hennessy data center cooling experts, Christopher Johnston and Vali Sorell, for preventing servers from overheating.

Hot spots not so hot in the data center
Expert: Robert McFarlane | 03 Oct 2005
EXPERT RESPONSE - What are some of the options for blocking the holes cut in tiles for cables? Expert Robert McFarlane answers.

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Cooling blade servers and high density servers: 1 - 3 of 6

Heat relief for data centers using blades
SearchDataCenter.com | 19 Oct 2005
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...

Will consolidating onto blades reduce heating loads?
Expert: Robert McFarlane | 25 Apr 2005
EXPERT RESPONSE - 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
SearchDataCenter.com | 27 Apr 2006
TIP - Expert Robert McFarlane explains what's needed to cool blade servers.

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Data center liquid cooling: 1 - 3 of 8

Liquid cooling is your friend, ASHRAE speakers say
SearchDataCenter.com | 29 Jan 2007
ARTICLE - Liquid is starting to make inroads in the data center, thanks to its ability to cool things off thousands of times better than air.

Utility offers rebate for liquid cooling systems
SearchDataCenter.com | 28 Nov 2006
ARTICLE - Avista Corp., a Spokane, Wash.-based utility is offering rebates to data centers that buy liquid cooling systems and other energy saving technologies. The first product to qualify for the rebate is ISR's SprayCool...

Data center liquid cooling vs. forced air cooling
SearchDataCenter.com | 19 Feb 2007
Q A INTERVIEW - SearchDataCenter.com recently visited American Power Conversion (APC) Corp.'s Research and Development facility in Billerica, MA, to get a first-hand look at its approach to data center cooling. During the visit we...

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