by Ian Seaton | Oct 13, 2021 | Blog
Adhering to airflow management best practices can reduce required airflow volume and allow you to increase cooling unit set points, lowering energy fan costs, lowering chiller energy costs, and increasing free cooling hours. Server Virtualization Server virtualization... 
by Ian Seaton | Oct 6, 2021 | Blog
Adhering to airflow management best practices can reduce required airflow volume and allow you to increase cooling unit set points, lowering energy fan costs, lowering chiller energy costs, and increasing free cooling hours. Raised Floor Grommets and Blanking Panels... 
by Ian Seaton | Sep 15, 2021 | Blog
Cages and containment don’t have to be mutually exclusive. If the cage is not compatible with containment, there will be a need for extra volume airflow and lower cooling unit set points, resulting in higher operating costs. Customer/client cages in colocation data... 
by Ian Seaton | Sep 8, 2021 | Blog
Best practice is to specify maximum allowable IT equipment inlet temperature and let mechanical plant find its own level. Managing temperature by thermostat set point frequently results in mechanical plant wasted energy and cycling or heating by cooling equipment.... 
by Ian Seaton | Aug 11, 2021 | Blog
Dramatic differences in required rates of temperature change could impact access to free cooling. Different RH requirements change access to free cooling and requirement for humidity management. Decisions about storage architectures are another IT management...