products & innovations
NEW COOLING SOLUTION FROM SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC
Schneider Electric has introduced the second generation
of the InRow DX (direct expansion) 600mm as the latest
addition to the InRow product line, expanding Schneider
Electric’s vast cooling portfolio to meet the evolving cooling
needs of an ever changing data centre environment.
Providing the high density cooling data centre
managers need to maintain critical facility temperatures,
the InRow DX features lowered energy costs, enhanced
controls, and a new user interface.
This second generation release significantly improves
cooling efficiency by reducing power consumption while
also increasing capacity. Capable of high density cooling
up to 42kW with a 4,000 SCFM max airflow in a small
600mm-wide footprint, Schneider Electric’s InRow DX
solution can cut energy consumption by 50 per cent
over first generation technology. This savings is enabled
by the use of new brushless variable speed scroll
compressors and EC fans.
The InRow DX design closely couples cooling with
the IT heat load, preventing hot air recirculation, while
improving cooling predictability and allowing for a pay
as you grow environment. Available in self-contained,
fluid cooled and air cooled configurations with or
without humidity control, these products meet the
diverse requirements for closet, server room, and data
centre cooling.
For further information visit:
www.schneider-electric.com
NGD teams up with Procurri to deliver IBM cloud hosting
Next Generation Data (NGD) and its latest channel partner Procurri UK have announced a
scalable range of data centre-as-a-service (DCaaS) platforms for securely hosting IBM i/OS
cloud environments.
Delivered from NGD’s Tier3+ data centre facility the DCaaS solutions will provide system
integrators and enterprise user organisations with a flexible, low risk approach to launching new
and migrating existing IBM i/OS applications into the cloud.
Customers can take advantage of ready-to-run DCaaS hosting platforms comprising
dedicated rack servers with various disk, I/O and back up configurations, power supply, cooling
infrastructure and a wide range of high speed network connectivity options. Also included is the
core application stack and coverage for IBM V5R4, V6R1, V7R1/R2 operating systems.
In addition to providing the 24x7 monitored cloud hosting service, Procurri will also be able to
offer customers expertise in IBM i/OS software development and legacy O/S upgrade services.
For further information visit: www.ngd.co.uk
New internal
evaporative coolers
from EcoCooling
EcoCooling has developed a
new range of internal evaporative
coolers for data centres
which provide a coefficient of
performance of 60 and PUEs
of under 1.2. These have been
designed for data centres that
cannot or do now want to have
plant and equipment on the
outside of their building.
Those likely to benefit most
from the new ECT units are
existing data centres. Many
existing data centres have
poor layouts. A conventional
DX CRAC in these situations
becomes a very expensive fan
with very poorly utilised cooling.
However, both the internal and
external EcoCooling units are
designed primarily as a ventilation
system to accommodate these
compromised layouts providing
efficient airflow solutions by using
carefully selected electrically
commutated (EC) fans.
The EcoCooling system
also retains or actually improves
efficiency when old equipment
is updated or data centres
reconfigured into hot or cold aisle
containment. This is because an
EC fan becomes more efficient
at slower speeds. When airflow
bypass is reduced then the
fans can run slower with higher
efficiency. Reducing the fan
speed by 20 per cent reduces fan
energy by 50 per cent.
For further information visit:
www.ecocooling.org
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