A Faster, Cost Effective Way to Deploy Pods of IT Racks in Data Centers
As a Senior Research Analyst for Schneider Electric’s Science Center, I have the privilege to observe and work with our system design and application engineers daily. I am always inspired and impressed...
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Calculate and Compare the TCO of your Lithium-Ion vs. VRLA Batteries
We’ve seen lithium-ion battery adoption grow at a rapid rate over the last couple of years. In fact, Bloomberg New Energy Finance report forecasts that 40% of data center battery backup will be...
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Data Center Facility Operations Services: Tips for a Bulletproof Request for...
By now, I think we all know that no matter how well thought out a data center design is, human error can bring it all down. I’m sure many of you have seen the headlines and heard about seemingly...
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“You Ask, We Answer” Video Series Takes You Inside the Minds of Schneider...
I’m responsible for the Data Center Science Center (DCSC), a small group of research analysts at Schneider Electric, whose mission is to understand new data center technologies and trends and advocate...
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How Your Data Center Consolidation Can Impress Your Boss: 5 Best Practices to...
The data center landscape has changed drastically over the last 5-10 years. Companies are relying on cloud data centers to offload key applications, colocation data centers are being used to house IT...
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Accommodate the Growth of Your Business with Edge Micro Data Centers – New...
There are trends and technologies making it more realistic for companies to forego building their own centralized data centers, and instead use the spare space, power, and cooling capacity of their...
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48VDC and the Quest for Improved Compute Performance
Last year I wrote a blog about open standards organizations like Open Compute Project (OCP) and Open19, and the power architectures that are emerging from these groups – specifically, the consolidation...
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OSDA – A More Flexible Data Center Availability Rating System
Digitization is driving the need for increased resiliency across data center architectures, from cloud-based data centers to the edge. I co-authored a white paper a couple of years back focused on this...
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Getting it Right – How Much Air Containment is Enough in Your Data Center?
This is a common question we’ve heard enough times that we decided to test containment across a range of “leakiness” and came up with some practical guidance. You may have heard the term “percent...
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Results are in! Our Study Measuring the Different Levels of Data Center Air...
In an earlier blog I explained the problem with “percent leakage” in regards to air containment and I proposed some more practical metrics. To quantify these metrics, we set up a test at the Innovation...
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Getting it Right – How Much Air Containment is Enough in Your Data Center? –...
In Part 1 I explained the problem with the “percent leakage” term and I proposed more practical metrics. In Part 2, I got into the actual testing we did in our St. Louis cooling lab with the help of...
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It’s Not Just About Chip Density – Five Reasons to Consider Liquid Cooling...
Liquid cooling is not a new technology. It’s been around for decades and has historically focused on mainframes, high performance computing (HPC), and gaming applications. But today’s demands for IoT,...
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Liquid vs. Air Cooling. Which is the Capex winner?
Liquid cooling has been around for some time now, but has tended to be very niche… until now. There’s a lot of buzz about liquid cooling as a necessary technology to address the trend of increasing...
View ArticleWill Heat Pumps in Commercial and Office Buildings Save the World?
You may have heard the terms “all-electric building” or “sustainable buildings” and seen them associated with the notion that heat pumps decarbonize our planet. If you didn’t already know, heat... Read...
View ArticleHyperscale Data Center Design for an On-site, Self-generation Solution Using...
One of the main challenges hyperscale data centers face is power capacity shortages, as well as the need to reduce their environmental footprint. Gas power generation is one alternative for... Read...
View ArticleHarsh Edge Computing Environments: Ruggedizing the Enclosures vs. Ruggedizing...
Edge computing continues to grow at a rapid pace. In industrial environments this has been driven largely by Industry 4.0 efforts. But when critical IT equipment is placed at the... Read more » The...
View ArticleJust Chill, Let ‘Cooling Optimize’ Keep Your Server Inlet Temps Steady
If you’re reading this, then you probably already know that cooling systems are the second biggest energy consumer in data centers, second only to the IT equipment itself. For more... Read more » The...
View ArticleChallenges and Successes for Pharmaceutical Electrical Infrastructure | ASCO...
The global health crisis brought by COVID-19 is another challenge that emphasized the importance of the pharmaceutical industry. Companies in this field promptly responded by commencing research for...
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