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  • eBay uses plastic sheeting for data center hot cold aisle containment

    eBay uses plastic sheeting in between aisles so that hot and cold air in the data center won't mix, making the facility more energy efficient.  Slideshow

  • Liebert's data center cold aisle containment product

    Emerson Liebert sell a pre-packaged cold aisle containment product for data centers. Prepackaged products can be nice if a company wants someone else to install the design, but they tend to be more expensive than do-it-yourself solutions.  Slideshow

  • Yahoo's data center cold aisle containment

    Yahoo! and SynapSense teamed up to use cold aisle containment in a Yahoo! data center, cutting cooling costs by 21% and reducing the facility's power usage effectiveness (PUE) from 1.52 to 1.44. Oh, and it's saving the company about a half-million do...  Slideshow

  • SearchDataCenterTV

    SearchDataCenterTV is a new video segment that will air twice a month on SearchDataCenter.com. Hosted by Matt Stansberry and Mark Fontecchio, the show features data center strategy experts discussing best practices, industry trends and new technologi...  Videos

  • Data Center Facilities Design for IT E-book

    The Data Center Facilities Design for IT E-book gives data center facilities staff and IT professionals the guidance they need to bridge the communication gap in order to maintain a productive and efficient data center. This e-book serves as a guide ...  E-Book

  • Chiller optimization for data center infrastructure

    Maximizing chilled water plant efficiency and cooling production is crucial in today's energy-efficient data center. Expert Mike Flaherty discusses cooling production basics, maximizing cooling capacity in existing data centers and how to achieve opt...  Tip series

  • ASHRAE 2009 data center winter conference coverage

    SearchDataCenter.com is on site covering data center issues from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers' (ASHRAE) winter 2009 conference in Chicago.  Special Report

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  • How do I measure the cooling consumption of my data center?

    Measuring cooling consumption in the data center is an approximate science. Here are a few strategies to help you get the information you need to determine cooling in your data center.  FAQ

  • How do I assess the total cost of cooling my data center?

    If there is a transaction in the data center, you better believe that managers want a metric for it. Cooling costs are no exception. Here is some advice for developing a metric for your cooling costs.  FAQ

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  • Hot spot/cold spot

    A hot spot/cold spot is an undesirable tightly-focused local temperature variation which often occurs when data center equipment is improperly cooled.  Definition

  • free cooling

    Free cooling is when ambient air or water is used to cool data center space and equipment.  Definition

  • data center evaporative cooling (swamp cooling)

    Evaporative cooling, also known as swamp cooling, is a strategy for cooling air that takes advantage of the drop in temperature that occurs when water that's exposed to moving air begins to change to gas. You've probably experienced the effects of ev...  Word

  • data center chiller

    A data center chiller is a cooling system used in a data center to remove heat from one element and deposit it into another element. Chillers are used by industrial facilities to cool the water used in their heating, ventilation and air-conditioning ...  Word

  • hot/cold aisle

    Hot aisle/cold aisle is a layout design for server racks and other computing equipment in a data center. The goal of a hot aisle/cold aisle configuration is to conserve energy and lower cooling costs by managing air flow.  Word

  • water cooling

    In computers, water cooling is a method used to lower the temperatures of computer processors, and sometimes other components such as graphics cards, using water rather than air as the cooling medium. (Continued...)  Word

  • green data center

    A green data center is a repository for the storage, management, and dissemination of data in which the mechanical, lighting, electrical and computer systems are designed for maximum energy efficiency and minimum environmental impact... (Continued)  Word

  • Blue Gene

    Blue Gene is a supercomputer development project at IBM for a series of high-performance system-on-a-chip (SoC) arcitectures with minimal power demands. The series includes Blue Gene/L, Cyclops64, (formerly Blue Gene/C), Blue Gene/P and Blue Gene/Q.  Word

  • computer room air conditioning unit (CRAC)

    A computer room air conditioning (CRAC) unit is a device that monitors and maintains the temperature, air distribution and humidity in a network room or data center. CRAC units are replacing air-conditioning units that were used in the past to cool d...  Word

  • ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers)

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