The ‘Cooling the Edge’ survey shows North American companies are investing more in edge-computing spaces.
Emerson Network Power has released results of a new survey that shows IT and data center managers in North America are becoming more focused on how they manage remote network closets and server rooms used in edge computing. Emerson’s “2016 Cooling the Edge Survey” shows that more than half of the managers responding to the survey say insufficient cooling capacity is their largest concern at these sites.
The survey, which included nearly 400 responses from IT, data center and facilities managers in North America, found that 39% of the managers have increased their investments in IT equipment in small spaces in the last two years, and 23% anticipate adding additional network closets to their IT infrastructure in the year ahead.