When you picked up this issue, did you think that something looked different? It does! Mission Critical is starting off 2014 with a fresh redesign. Art director Jake Needham has revamped our look. Tell me what you think at fritzc@bnpmedia.com.
Our cover story this month focuses on data center cooling and we have four great articles that address the topic. Lars Strong from Upsite discusses cooling capacity factor; Tom Boysen from Sellen Construction looks at evaporative cooling as a new way to cool data centers; Scott Alwine from Tate reports on a school in Florida that used variable air volume dampers and directional airflow panels to cool its data center; and Chad Beery from Peters, Tschantz & Associates, Inc., shares the story of how one design team increased data center UPS cooling without compromising the IT environment. In addition to cooling, Peter Panfil of Emerson Network Power discusses the energy efficient cloud and David Schirmacher from Digital Realty discusses DCIM. And, of course, we have our regular line up of talented columnists from the data center community.