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Digital Twins In Data Center
The technology sector is full of jargon. But are terms like human augmentation, mesh networks, blockchain, intelligent assistants, and similar terms actually understood by the average person outside of the…
Data Center KPIs To Monitor Health and Efficiency
Modern data center managers are tasked with balancing data center uptime while also optimizing for efficiency and capacity utilization. They are constantly under pressure to accomplish more with less. They…
Heat Rejection Method Optimization In Data Center
Energy efficiency is a major concern in the data center industry. Organizations are always looking for the latest cooling technology to increase optimization. More facilities are exploring to free cooling…
IoT Environmental Monitoring Using IoT Technology
Business organizations are backed by high-density IT infrastructure. The growing capacities are due to the increase in demand for automation and data analytics. Continuous development in the IT space has…
The Key To Reducing Data Center Construction Costs
Organizations need to be disciplined if they want to keep their data development expenses down because data construction prices are rising every year. The average enterprise data center costs between…
Philippines: The Next APAC’s Data Center Hub?
Two years after the pandemic pushed businesses to embrace digitization, corporations are investing even more in upgrading their technology capabilities. Datacenter Hub demands are increasing at an exponential rate as…
Battery Fire Protection and Energy Storage Monitoring System
What Is Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)? Battery energy storage systems (BESS) are systems that store electrical energy. Renewable sources such as wind and solar farms typically generate this energy….
How Can Businesses Benefit From Colocation
Business expansion is almost never a bad thing. After all, it is what organizations strive for day in and day out. Growth, on the other hand, brings a slew of…
Cooling Load Calculation For Data Center Cooling
In the data center, it’s not only the heat that influences the cooling load calculation. Too high or low humidity causes condensation, corrosion, and pollutants, such as dust accumulation on…
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…