Optimizing Data Center Cooling
Our airflow management solutions are specifically engineered to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of data center cooling. Our ProductsRequest QuoteWhy Upsite Technologies?
We are committed to providing excellent data center cooling products and tools. As part of our dedication to the science and art of data center cooling optimization, we offer timely and insightful research which addresses the demands and trends related to cooling optimization and cooling management. We also recommend industry-recognized best practices and solutions for maintaining data center cooling best practices.
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Available cooling lost to bypass airflow in typical data center.
We provide best-in-class products, industry-leading education, and hands-on advice to provide data center operators with the tools needed to maximize their cooling investments.
KoldLok is the industry standard for sealing raised-floor data centers. Designed to limit bypass airflow by efficiently sealing openings in raised floors.
Our line of rack airflow management products, specifically designed to control intake airflow in server racks. Our award-winning blanking panels are considered the ‘best-fitting’ in the industry.
Our modular containment solution and line of aisle airflow management products are specifically designed to block airflow, ensuring hot and cold aisle separation.
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Ensuring there’s no wasted cooling is vital. Accurate control of the airflow through KoldLok Grommets allows us to consider energy-savings strategies such as increasing CRAC set points.
After having hands-on experience with nearly every available product on the market, HotLok is by far the superior choice. Not only does it create the best seal, but its universal mounting system and finger grips make it the easiest to use and reuse.
We have looked and looked for a solution like KoldLok. If KoldLok had been around ten years ago, we probably would not have needed to add a cooling unit back then. It improves the efficiency of our cooling system a great deal.
The 4 R’s of Airflow Management™
Managing cooling in your data center is a holistic process. We’ve developed a methodology which we call the 4R’s of Airflow Management which addresses the specific needs of aisle containment, floor containment, hot aisle containment and then monitoring of the facility. Each part of the 4R’s addresses particular needs which build upon each other and enhance the effectiveness of cooling optimization efforts.
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Average percentage of data centers that waste their valuable conditioned airflow through unsealed openings in the raised floor.
Recent Upsite Blog Posts
The Importance of Mutual Understanding Between IT and Facilities – Part 5: Specifying Cooling Unit Set Points
Best practice is to specify maximum allowable IT equipment inlet temperature and let mechanical plant find its own level. Managing temperature by thermostat set point frequently results in mechanical plant wasted energy and cycling or heating by cooling equipment....
The Importance of Mutual Understanding Between IT and Facilities – Part 4: Specifying Solid State Storage or Tape Storage
Dramatic differences in required rates of temperature change could impact access to free cooling. Different RH requirements change access to free cooling and requirement for humidity management. Decisions about storage architectures are another IT management...
The Importance of Mutual Understanding Between IT and Facilities – Part 3: Specifying Equipment that Breathes from Front-to-Back
Not doing so violates hot and cold aisle segregation, resulting in the need for lower set points and higher air volume delivery, and therefore reduced total and redundant cooling capacity and higher operating costs. Servers are not the only equipment IT management is...