By: Edward L Gutowski
Data center operators are being asked to take several leaps of faith when adopting the outside air concept with regard to particulate filtration, corrosive gases, operating temperature, humidity...
View ArticleBy: Joe Casanova
This is always an interesting idea and thinking outside the box is definitely the way to go, especially when cost cutting is such a huge draw. My company has been using this technique since August...
View ArticleBy: Ray Martin
I applaud the research on using outside make up air or air economizers. However, I heard of an anecdote about a series of small data centers that were located near the coast. Economizers were installed...
View ArticleBy: Keeping Workplace Server Room Green « Inconvenient Youth
[...] this very issue. As a matter of fact, Intel has recently done testing using a method called “air-side economization” which uses outside air to cool server rooms. It turns out that “Using air-side...
View ArticleBy: Tom Nats
For your on the fence, we have two rooms using economizers and are looking forward to another Fall and Winter saving $1000s on cooling savings. We’re coming up on a year and although we’re a small data...
View ArticleBy: Don Atwood - Intel
Great comments everyone – the truth is our (Intel’s) experiment here at the time was almost revolutionary but today it’s widely adopted. Due to NDA I can’t say who, where, or how but I walked a new DC...
View ArticleBy: Turbulentes Sommerwetter führt zu Datenverlust | wm it&consulting
[...] Einfluss des Wetters auf die Datensicherheit und Systemstabilität sind also wesentlich höher als erwartet. Dieser Beitrag wurde unter Datenrettung, Hardware veröffentlicht. Setze ein Lesezeichen...
View ArticleBy: Green Data Center « Kevin's Blog
[...] that is most common, but it does a great job with much lower energy consumption. There have been studies that indicate there may not be as great a need to cool servers as once thought, and it...
View ArticleBy: Vastnet
We have been sucking in outside air for cooling for 15 years..using a custom designed system (designed by me). When we first set it up people said we were nuts. Even lost a few customers over it. Now...
View ArticleBy: William
I am amazed at the conservative reaction to this article. Why haven’t the fools who are afraid of the outside air run out of money yet? There are no issues here that have not been dealt with...
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