Are the issues of tomorrow’s data centers anything like they are today? A recent study by the Uptime Institute found that many of the expected challenges in 2016 are very similar to present issues, although some will be substantially different.
Designers of information technologies (IT) facilities today are challenged to keep up with several varieties of environments, some of which are mission critical and others that are not.
A 2006 AFCOM membership survey revealed that one
out of every four data centers will experience a business disruption serious
enough to affect the company’s ability to continue business-as-usual.
Much has been said about the energy efficiency
of higher three-phase alternating current (ac) voltages as well as direct
current (dc) solutions for data centers.
Why we still don’t understand contained aisles and why we need to take more care in their design. 2011 ASHRAE guidelines are the beginning of a new era in data center air cooling.