airflow management
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KEN'S KORNER - Data Center Environmental Monitoring
Selecting a Monitoring System Monitoring can range from electrical power equipment supporting critical load such as UPS systems, diesel generators, PDU/RPP’s down to individual branch circuits within power panels. When evaluating a monitoring system consider what type of graphics are desired and available. Pictorial diagrams displaying individual monitored components are helpful, especially ones that change color or light up in... -
AirGuard Split Extreme, Newest Product in Award Winning Line of Data Center Floor Grommets
PDU Cables™ introduces the new AirGuard® Split Extreme cable seal for sealing power and data cables through cable cutouts in raised floors of data centers and mission critical facilities. MINNETONKA – November 16, 2015 - PDU Cables, a division of Engineered Products Company, the industry leading manufacturer and supplier of power-distribution cable assemblies in North America since 1981, has expanded... -
KEN'S KORNER - Why I Like Raised Floors
Why I Like Raised Floors I’m not here to try and tell you that one way is better than the other, when the time came to build our new data centers, raised floors were the only option we seriously considered. Why? Raised floors have always been and continue to be the dominant choice in data centers. As a company, we... -
U.S. DOE and Airflow Management
Even the Government Agrees! U.S. Department of Energy suggests you first address the simple solutions to airflow problems in legacy data centers A recent study by the U.S. Department of Energy on Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory suggests that as data center energy densities increase, measured in power-use per square foot, energy savings for...