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New England LawBoston Upgrades Critical e-Mail System/services and Enhances Performance - While Conserving Space and Energy
White Papers Founded in 1908, New England LawBoston (NELB) needed a top-to-bottom upgrade of its aging technology infrastructure as the school approached its centennial - and had to accomplish that task within the limits on space, power and cooling of the...
[June 12, 2009, 1:20]
CO2 used to cool blade servers
News Although at this stage the companies are releasing few details on exactly how its CO2 Mission Critical Cooling system works, a statement put out this week claims that the "principal philosophy is to employ heat absorption rather than conventional...
[February 2, 2006, 12:35]
Dell to sell advanced cooling systems for servers
News By using a more energy-efficient cooling method, IT managers can realise cost savings and, in turn, possibly dedicate more of their budget to servers, Stack said. The liquid system cuts the cooling power load by about 30 to 50 percent as compared...
[June 29, 2007, 8:28]
Fujitsu launches 18-blade 'Dynamic Cube'
News The BX900 uses a new cooling system, called Cool-safe, that the company said is designed to reduce data centre energy costs by improving the flow of air through the enclosure. Fujitsu announced a blade server system on Tuesday that fits up to 18...
[May 12, 2009, 16:51]
Nano-refrigeration firm takes a Cool look at wafers
News The cooling system would use far less energy than traditional air compressors, fans or heat sinks, as well as take up less space, according to the company. Theoretically, a cooling system presents a number of advantages.
[April 19, 2004, 14:00]
Water-cooled IBM supercomputer to heat buildings
News IBM estimates that the watercooling scheme will reduce the system's carbon footprint by up to 85 percent and save up to 30 tons of CO2 annually, compared with standard cooling approaches. The system is the product of an extended joint research...
[June 24, 2009, 16:35]
HP helps data centres play it cool
News Key to the technology is preventing hot spots that cause server failure; data centre operators aren't willing to accept higher risk with a more flexible cooling system. He called the technology the "dynamic smart-cooling controller".
[May 4, 2006, 10:25]
Fujitsu Siemens Primergy TX120 review
Reviews Fujitsu-Siemens has been able to reduce the operating noise of the TX120 thanks to a redesigned heat pipe cooling system. Compared to water cooling, which is used in some small servers, a heat pipe system provides similarly quiet operation but...
[July 23, 2007, 14:23]
VMworld: Day one roundup
News This figure includes money for the servers themselves plus the drop in energy use due to reduced cooling requirements. VMware itself provided figures of $250 a year — or 3,000kWh — saved for each server virtualised in server power costs, with a...
[November 8, 2006, 16:16]
How to make hot chips that stay cool
News The thermodynamics of cooling such a thing are hard enough, but the economics are impossible. If you design a computer costing £800 today, you have around £35 in your budget to put power in through a power supply and take it out through cooling.
[September 10, 2004, 10:35]
Photos: Dell showcases new enterprise products
News The dual-cooling system, which uses a mixture of liquids, is very similar to what is found in a refrigeration unit, said Kettler. The cooling system allows processors to run at a higher frequency. Here is the H2C cooling unit for high-performance...
[May 18, 2007, 11:36]
Ten crucial server attributes
Articles For photographic purposes, we have removed the plastic ducting that helps ensure the cooling air flows over the CPUs and memory. Crucial attribute 6: Cooling But quieter servers are the future: noise results from wasted energy, and energy...
[September 18, 2009, 16:15]
Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption with Wet Side Economizers
White Papers Intel IT is using wet side economizers to achieve high levels of cooling system efficiency, reducing energy consumption and cost.
[September 19, 2007, 18:37]
Five Strategies for Cutting Data Center Energy Costs Through Enhanced Cooling Efficiency
White Papers Together, these methods can reduce cooling system energy costs by 30 to 45 percent and generate significant, recurring savings. Cooling accounts for approximately 37 percent of electricity usage within a well-designed data center and, in many cases...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
LSI Chooses the Intel Xeon Processor 7300 Series to Help Engineers Speed New, More Complex Integrated Circuits to the Marketplace
White Papers LSI also needed energy-efficient processors that would help them reduce the power and cooling system requirements and align with the corporate objectives to be more environmentally friendly in the data centers.
[January 1, 2009, 0:00]
Effect of the Hydraulic Piping Topology on Energy Demand and Comfort in Buildings With Tabs
White Papers The hydraulic piping system in TABS basically can be separated in a heating and cooling generation part, a distribution part and the consumer part which consists of several individually supplied zones.
[January 9, 2008, 0:01]
The Necessary Convergence of IT and Facilities — Bringing the two groups together under one unified process
White Papers Inefficiencies could force premature construction of additional power and cooling infrastructure. Apart, neither group can optimize energy consumption and system availability across the big picture. The data center could be consuming more energy...
[July 15, 2009, 12:10]
University Uses Virtualization to Create More Responsive, Cost-Effective Data Center
White Papers UNISO has reduced data center energy and cooling costs by 40 percent, real estate needs by 70 percent, and software licensing costs by 60 percent using a Microsoft Campus Agreement. Using Microsoft System Center data center solutions, UNISO can...
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
Rackable puts data centre in a box
News Called Concentro, the system squeezes as many as 1,200 servers along with power and cooling equipment into a 40-foot shipping container. The company argues that it's the bee's knees when it comes to energy efficiency, dense packing of computing...
[March 27, 2007, 9:50]
Power And Cooling Heat Up The Data Center
White Papers Over the past two years, however, as energy prices have soared and servers have grown denser and hotter, power and cooling have once again become critical issues. After a brief day in the sun in the late ’90s, concerns about power and cooling as...
[January 2, 2008, 8:06]
