by Ian Seaton | Oct 9, 2019 | Blog
This is part 2 of a two part series on ASHRAE’s recommended vs allowable data center environmental limits. To read part 1, click here. What really is the difference between the ASHRAE TC9.9 recommended data center environmental limits and the allowable limits?... 
by Ian Seaton | Sep 18, 2019 | Blog
Despite the ubiquity of references to ASHRAE TC9.9’s guidelines on data center temperatures, there remain questions about the difference between the recommended limits and the allowable limits. The easy answer is that the recommended envelope for server inlet... 
by Ian Seaton | Aug 28, 2019 | Blog
Last week we left off with Maxwell just about to escape from the backpack: “Time loses its reference points in such circumstances but I could tell the backpack was moving around and just as I was beginning to feel at one with the strawberry pepperoni mash-up, the bag... 
by Ian Seaton | Aug 21, 2019 | Blog
Hey. Maxwell here. Maxwell Air, that is. But you can call me Max. Did you ever have one of those days? What kind of day, you might ask? Well, something like standing on a corner waiting for the light to change and then you go to step into the street and … poof … you... 
by Ian Seaton | Jul 31, 2019 | Blog
Ten months ago, when I started this project of producing a series on algorithms for managing or planning a data center’s mechanical infrastructure, my thinking was that I could demystify the mechanical plant by breaking it down into discrete elements and making the...