by Ian Seaton | Feb 26, 2025 | Blog
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... 
by Ian Seaton | Feb 12, 2025 | Blog
The Importance of Mutual Understanding Between IT and Facilities – Part 2: Specifying A1, A2, A3, or A4 Servers Different server classes operate at different maximum temperatures, resulting in more free cooling hours, significantly reducing operating cost. Different... 
by Ian Seaton | Feb 5, 2025 | Blog
The Importance of Mutual Understanding Between IT and Facilities – Part 1: Specifying High ΔT Servers vs. Low ΔT Servers Higher ΔT typically associated with blades results in less airflow volume per kW for cooling. This results in a lower total conditioned airflow... 
by Ian Seaton | Nov 13, 2024 | Blog
The Importance of Airflow Management in Colocation Facilities I was always a little perplexed whenever my recommendations about data center airflow management best practices were shrugged off as impractical by colocation data center builders and operators. After all,... 
by Ian Seaton | Mar 20, 2024 | Blog
What You Need to Know About Managing the Return Plenum Back at the birth of data center thermal management as a topic of discussion for only a very small circle of friends, I tried to carve out my position of expertise in a field most folks in the industry didn’t even...
