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3 Solutions For Edge Uninterruptible Power Supply Issues
Change Is Coming IT managers are using edge computing to enable high-bandwidth content distribution, the Internet of Things (IoT), and on-premise applications in practically every business. Local edge computing is…
Climate Change: Let’s Prepare The Data Centers
Is Your Data Center Protected From The Elements? Data center owners and operators need to understand climate risks and their implications on data center infrastructure. The consequences of climate change…
Data Center Safety Key Components
The data center is a high-risk environment that necessitates the use of qualified staff. It’s a good idea to have a data center safety plan. However, if it is not…
Understanding The Science Behind Containment
The evolution of data centers has seen progress in the technology of data center design. To optimize data center performance, engineers and scientists are looking for ways to improve data centers….
How Important Is Hard Disk Temperature?
One of the most important elements affecting hard disk longevity is temperature. There have been various studies comparing disk failure rates to operating temperature over the years. The majority of…
Data Center Containment Myths
The separation of cold supply air from hot exhaust air is known as data center containment. Containment allows for a consistent supply temperature to IT equipment’s intake and warmer air to…
Corrosion: How To Prevent The Threat In Data Center?
Causes And Consequences Of Corrosion Corrosion can occur in data center-free cooling system components such as air to water heat exchangers, resulting in major efficiency and availability difficulties. Free cooling is…
Total-Power Usage Effectiveness: Next Gen Energy Efficiency Metrics
Introduced last 2016, power usage effectiveness (PUE) has been the de facto metric for assessing data center energy efficiency. It’s straightforward to calculate the ratio between total facility power and power…
AKCP Protects and Monitors the Aviation Industry
AKCP, the world’s oldest and largest supplier of networked wired and wireless sensor solutions monitors the aviation maintenance industry. Aviation repair workshops are part of the critical infrastructure for the…
Issues With Hot Aisle Containment Design
Within the data center, hot-aisle containment encloses the hot aisles. The IT equipment’s discharge air enters the enclosed hot aisle and is directed to cooling equipment via a ceiling plenum…
Row-Level Air Management Practices To Optimize Data Center Cooling
Row-Level Airflow Management Row-level airflow management is the process of improving cold aisle and hot aisle containment through the management of airflow within the containment aisle. After enhancing airflow management…
Myths About Airflow Containment
Data centers are crucial infrastructure for the modern world. Data has become a commodity and data centers are the medium to facilitate its flow. Every facet of our life is…
The Open Compute Project (OCP) Principles
Datacenter architects are always devising new techniques to improve the efficiency, integration, and scalability of data centers. When creating a data center, however, you frequently have to mix and match…
Innovative Data Center Cooling For Increasing Demands
Social networking, internet video streaming, smartphone apps, and other technological advances have resulted in a surge in information demand. Since 2010, data center workloads have increased sixfold while energy usage…
Safety and Health In The Data Center For Employees
To satisfy the high expectations for continuous data center operations, a lot of engineering, planning, and operational maintenance is required; yet, an atmosphere ideal for computer equipment is not always…
Data Center Optimization Strategies
Data centers have become integral in our society today. We rely on these facilities for all our online activities. Data centers are the most crucial aspect of today’s computing infrastructures….
Open Compute For Every Data Center
The market for data center hardware built to Open Compute Project specifications is exploding — and not only because of the demand from the hyper-scale cloud platforms. The market for…
Renewable Energy: Why It Is Not Enough?
Known as the internet’s brain, data centers’ job is to process, store and communicate the data that powers the flow of information services. This includes video streaming, email, social networking,…
Effects Of Stranded Capacity In Data Centers And How To Avoid It
Every data center has an invisible ceiling that limits the amount of IT equipment, servers, storage, and network devices that it can handle. This is known as the capacity of…
Overheating Prevention Steps to Keep a Data Center Running
The digital world has been part of the life of many people, from posting to social media, shopping online, fulfilling financial transactions. People are dedicating almost one-fourth of their day…