Report: Adoption Of In-Row And In-Rack Cooling Slow As Data Center Market Struggles
IHS found that row/rack revenues fell by roughly 5% to 6%.
Despite years of high-hopes for growth of the in-row and in-rack data center cooling segment, sales for these close-coupled cooling products are not producing the double-digit growth once hoped for. In a recent study by IHS, it was found that row/rack revenues fell by roughly 5% to 6% in 2013 compared to a perimeter cooling market decline of 2% to 3%.
“There are a few reasons for the decline of row/rack revenue,” Elizabeth Cruz, the author of Data Center Cooling - 2014 explains. “These products are used either as stand-alone cooling solutions in small data centers or as supplementary cooling in high-density applications. The first issue is that an increasing number of companies are outsourcing their small data centers to colocation or cloud providers, which tend to be large data centers that use traditional room cooling.”