by Ian Seaton | Jun 20, 2018 | Blog
Data Center Cable Management and Airflow Management Data center cable management and airflow management are not necessarily a match made in heaven, though they should be a match made somehow, somewhere. For a couple of decades, I taught courses on data center thermal... 
by Ian Seaton | May 16, 2018 | Blog
Effects of Data Center Bypass Airflow Remember when bypass airflow in a data center was a sign of prestige? That social marker started going the way of arsenic-induced pale complexions, corseted tiny waists and some of the more over-the-top displays of conspicuous... 
by Ian Seaton | Apr 25, 2018 | Blog
Effects of Data Center Hot Air Re-Circulation What is there to say about data center hot air re-circulation? It’s bad. It causes hot spots. It raises the cost of operating a data center. That about covers it, so this should be my shortest blog ever. While the bottom... 
by Ian Seaton | Apr 4, 2018 | Blog
Is Your Data Center PUE Just PU? For the benefit of anyone who may have joined the conversation somewhere in the middle, let me remind everyone that the purpose of the PUE (power usage effectiveness) metric was initially proposed to be an easy-to-use internal... 
by Ian Seaton | Mar 21, 2018 | Blog
The Four Data Center Delta Ts: Dollars and Sense Data center health is frequently discussed in terms of PUE, but a PUE check-up can be sort of like checking a corpse for a pulse, particularly when we consider that an honest and educated practitioner means EUE (Energy...