Richard Symons is EMEA Business Development Manager for APC by Schneider Electric, specializing in Rack Systems and PDUs. I caught up with him in the Technology Park at DatacenterDynamics Converged… Read more »
Articles Tagged: data center cooling
DatacenterDynamics and Schneider Electric’s High Density Data Center Architecture
May 6, 2013
214 views
Room, Row or Rack: How to Determine Which Cooling Architecture Is Best for Your Data Center
March 17, 2013
1,080 views
We’ve covered previously in this blog the different data center cooling architectures – room, rack and row-based cooling. But we recently came out with an updated white paper that helps… Read more »
How Energy Efficiency Efforts Can Spell Trouble When the Power Goes Out
February 12, 2013
1,596 views
A number of important trends are helping companies save lots of money on electric bills by making their data centers more efficient. While this is certainly a worthy and justified… Read more »
4 Tips for Keeping Your IT Equipment Cool When the Power Goes Out
February 11, 2013
796 views
In my last post, I shared some of the ways that data center energy efficiency efforts can cause temperatures to quickly rise in a data center following a power outage…. Read more »
4 Ways to Reduce Energy Consumption in Any Data Center
February 1, 2013
2,236 views
If your data center energy bill is a bit higher than you’d like, you are certainly not alone. By their nature, data centers consume a lot of energy and there’s… Read more »
Data Center Science Series: Containerized Modules by Neil Rasmussen
January 22, 2013
3,060 views
Short Answers to 6 Questions About Modular, Containerized Data Centers I recently recorded a series of videos for the marketing team here at Schneider Electric, including one that addresses… Read more »
4 Ways DCIM Can Help Conserve Energy
January 15, 2013
1,856 views
Everyone wants to run an energy efficient data center but too often companies take a few steps to trim their energy use, pat themselves on the back and leave it… Read more »
Data Center Location: Balancing Energy Costs with Local Data Legislation Part 2
January 8, 2013
1,002 views
At the recent Data Centres Europe 2012 conference, Aaron Davis, CMO of Schneider Electric gave a keynote address about energy and the issues faced by the data center… Read more »
Don’t Leave Your Data Center Stranded Out in the Cold
December 19, 2012
1,827 views
For most companies, data center capacity comes at a premium, so it’s important to be able to wring every bit of it out of the space and infrastructure you have… Read more »
Blade Servers and Virtualization Shrink White Space But Challenge Data Center Design
December 4, 2012
1,674 views
The use of innovative technology, such as blade servers and virtualization, can decrease the amount of data center white space (the space used by computer cabinets) required but increase the… Read more »
5 Ways to Reduce Data Center Water Consumption
November 14, 2012
6,632 views
We’ve been talking for years about conserving energy in data centers, and justifiably so, but more recently the idea of conserving water has been gaining attention as well. Saving water… Read more »
3 Ways that Under-floor Cabling Causes Data Center Energy Loss
June 26, 2012
4,651 views
Raised floors are common in data centers, used to provide a space through which cool air is delivered to the data center. Unfortunately, the space under the raised floor is… Read more »
Overhead Air Conditioning Solution Saves Floor Space and Solves Data Center Structural Challenges
March 16, 2012
3,514 views
All data center designs bring their own set of challenges. Sometimes the scale of the challenge is not reflected in the size of the facility; a small datacenter design and… Read more »
Data Center Science Series: Containerized Modules by Neil Rasmussen
January 22, 2013
3,060 views
Short Answers to 6 Questions About Modular, Containerized Data Centers I recently recorded a series of videos for the marketing team here at Schneider Electric, including one that addresses… Read more »
Will modular power and cooling make traditional data center designs obsolete?
February 7, 2012
2,815 views
Fortune 500 companies around the world are trying to rationalize their data centers for better efficiency of scale. Some of them have approached Schneider Electric with the goal of a… Read more »
The Side Benefits of DCIM; How Energy Management Averted a Data Center Cooling Crisis
June 4, 2012
2,499 views
I thought that you might be interested in a real life data center situation that recently arose here in China. We’d been approached by a customer who wanted to lower… Read more »
Data Center Rack-Level Cooling to Grow Twice as Fast as Room-Cooling
May 29, 2012
2,432 views
In his podcast “Close-coupled Cooling Delivers Big Energy Savings” (which you can listen to on this blog), John Niemann advises anyone running a small or medium sized data center could… Read more »
4 Ways to Reduce Energy Consumption in Any Data Center
February 1, 2013
2,236 views
If your data center energy bill is a bit higher than you’d like, you are certainly not alone. By their nature, data centers consume a lot of energy and there’s… Read more »
Modular Data Center Market is Heating up – and Reliability is One Reason
May 18, 2012
2,100 views
The market for prefabricated, modular data centers is heating up, to say the least. In a session at the Uptime Institute Symposium 2012 event this week in Santa Clara, industry… Read more »
New Data Center in Besançon, France, Plays it Cool with EcoBreeze
September 7, 2012
1,978 views
I caught up with Dushy Goonawardhane about the Neoclyde data center in Besançon, France. Dushy is business development manager for Schneider Electric’s cooling solutions in EMEA, and he’s had a… Read more »
4 Ways to Reduce Energy Consumption in Any Data Center
February 1, 2013
2,236 views
If your data center energy bill is a bit higher than you’d like, you are certainly not alone. By their nature, data centers consume a lot of energy and there’s… Read more »
4 Tips for Keeping Your IT Equipment Cool When the Power Goes Out
February 11, 2013
796 views
In my last post, I shared some of the ways that data center energy efficiency efforts can cause temperatures to quickly rise in a data center following a power outage…. Read more »
5 Keys for Cost Efficient Data Center Cooling Systems
June 18, 2012
1,200 views
Aside from IT consolidation, the biggest opportunity for energy savings comes from the cooling plant, which, in many data centers consumes the same as, or even more than, the IT… Read more »
Don’t Leave Your Data Center Stranded Out in the Cold
December 19, 2012
1,827 views
For most companies, data center capacity comes at a premium, so it’s important to be able to wring every bit of it out of the space and infrastructure you have… Read more »
Data Center Rack-Level Cooling to Grow Twice as Fast as Room-Cooling
May 29, 2012
2,432 views
In his podcast “Close-coupled Cooling Delivers Big Energy Savings” (which you can listen to on this blog), John Niemann advises anyone running a small or medium sized data center could… Read more »
Blade Servers and Virtualization Shrink White Space But Challenge Data Center Design
December 4, 2012
1,674 views
The use of innovative technology, such as blade servers and virtualization, can decrease the amount of data center white space (the space used by computer cabinets) required but increase the… Read more »
5 Ways to Reduce Data Center Water Consumption
November 14, 2012
6,632 views
We’ve been talking for years about conserving energy in data centers, and justifiably so, but more recently the idea of conserving water has been gaining attention as well. Saving water… Read more »
Data Center Science Series: Containerized Modules by Neil Rasmussen
January 22, 2013
3,060 views
Short Answers to 6 Questions About Modular, Containerized Data Centers I recently recorded a series of videos for the marketing team here at Schneider Electric, including one that addresses… Read more »
Modular Data Center Market is Heating up – and Reliability is One Reason
May 18, 2012
2,100 views
The market for prefabricated, modular data centers is heating up, to say the least. In a session at the Uptime Institute Symposium 2012 event this week in Santa Clara, industry… Read more »
Will modular power and cooling make traditional data center designs obsolete?
February 7, 2012
2,815 views
Fortune 500 companies around the world are trying to rationalize their data centers for better efficiency of scale. Some of them have approached Schneider Electric with the goal of a… Read more »