Data center heating source options
Currently, our data center is located in my existing Corporate HQ. We have purchased a 10k square foot building to put the new DC in (It will use 4k square feet.) I am being asked if I would like the additional 6k square feet of the building to use gas heat or electric. My gut (and consultant)...
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| May 5 2008 8:35 PM GMT
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Data center infrastructure, Data center design and infrastructure
HFC 125 vs FM 200 performance
A SearchDataCenter reader wrote in with this question: What is the difference in the performace of hfc227 compared with HFC 125 in the same application? What are the disadvantages of HFC 125 compared to HFC227(FM200)?
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| Apr 23 2008 9:20 PM GMT
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Leah Rosin
Data center design and infrastructure, Data center fire suppression, Data center physical security
Air conditioning suppliers
We are planning to acquire 6 to 8 additional 20-30 ton dual sourced (chilled water and Gylcol) CRAC units for our data center. We will also need to purchase 150 tons (could be one gylcol unit or multiple smaller units) of gylcol capacity. We have historically dealt with the same manufacturer. I...
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| Mar 18 2008 12:49 AM GMT
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Charlie H
Data center air conditioning units, Data center operations management, Data center design and infrastructure
physical network infrastrcture design question
Concerning the physical network design in Data Centers which have quite a mix of high density blade centers, small 1-U servers, storage, mainframe, etc., I'd like to hear what standards are being followed. Are you using fiber fed switches to each rack, patch panels in each rack, cat5 or cat6 e,...
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| Feb 18 2008 4:51 PM GMT
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Penny
Data center design and infrastructure, Data center operations
