is the main concern for many datacenter managers. Excess heat in a server room adversely affects equipment performance, shortens its lifespan, and leads to a premature end of life for equipment. Keeping a server room at the recommended temp is not an easy task. There are many factors that make cooling today’s datacenters a significant challenge, including high-density computing clusters and rapid changes in technology. Call ESP for an analysis of your hot spots now.
In a recent survey conducted by the Uptime Institute, enterprise data center managers responded that 39% of the expected that their data centers would run out of cooling capacity in the next 12-24 months and 21% claimed they would run out of cooling capacity in 12-60 months. The power required to cool far exceeds the power required to run that equipment. Overall power in the data center is fast reaching capacity as well and an obvious area that needs to be addressed is implementing cooling best practices where every possible.
In the same Uptime survey 42% of these data center managers expected to run out of power capacity within 12-24 months and another 23% claimed that they would run out of power capacity in 24-60 months.
With the cost of energy skyrocketing at the same time as user demand for more performance is increasing, IT managers are facing a power, space and cost crunch. The cost of electricity and cooling in the data center is exceeding the cost of the equipment itself. It is estimated that for every $1.00 spent on new data center hardware, an additional $0.50 is spent on power and cooling, more than double the amount of five years ago.
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