Which Cleveland Data Centers Best Manage Cooling and Power? (SlideShare)

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Which Cleveland Data Centers Best Manage Cooling and Power?

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Certain Cleveland data centers take a more modern approach that saves money without compromising on equipment safety and stability

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CRAC Speed Reduction

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Computer room air conditioning units (CRACs) use quite a bit of power and can account for up to 10% of a particular data center’s overall energy use

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Hot and Cold Aisles

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In a hot / cold aisle layout, the ‘corridors’ between facing racks are enclosed, with doors at either end and a ceiling

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Strategic Design

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Although careful containment layouts have a demonstrated impact on cooling in data centers,

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many businesses follow the same old pattern when designing a building

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This approach creates problems like the following:

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• Difficult or precarious rack placement

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• Problems with containment duct layout

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• Higher operating expenses (if building is too large)

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• Reduced operating capacity (if layout is too small / limited)

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A number of Cleveland data centers take a different approach:

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the building design is oriented around the rack layouts that match the projected needs

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Relevant Links

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• 'Free' data center cooling: Methods and challenges

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• The evolution of design and data center cooling

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The Bottom Line

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Cleveland data centers don’t all use revolutionary cooling and power technologies,

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but they do use existing resources in better, more sustainable ways

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Insightful building design and well thought-out cooling strategies go a long way towards reducing data center power consumption

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How does your data center make efficient use of its cooling and power resources?

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