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Are You Overcooling Your Data Center? Use This Checklist to Verify
Overcooling is a common issue in data centers, which can lead to unnecessary energy consumption and higher costs. This checklist can help you identify if your data center is over-cooled and provides solutions to avoid overcooling.
Combat Overcooling in Your Data Center with an AUDIT-BUDDY Thermal Audit
Are you aware that overcooling your data center can have negative consequences on both reliability and availability? In this article, we'll break down why keeping your data center temperature within Ashrae limits is crucial, and how Purkay Labs' thermal audits can help you optimize your cooling and save money on electricity.
How to Stop Overcooling Your Data Center
Overcooling is a common issue in data centers that often goes unnoticed. It can waste energy, increase operating costs, and decrease the lifespan of your equipment. By using a tool, like the AUDIT-BUDDY and the Static Heat Map, you can identify areas of overcooling and adjust your cooling strategy to optimize energy efficiency and equipment performance. The data will help you to adjust your cooling strategy to save energy, reduce operating costs, and extend the lifespan of your equipment.
Wash - Rinse - Repeat: How to Use AUDIT-BUDDY & Six Sigma Principles to Achieve Cooling Optimization
By applying the Six Sigma DMAIC process & the AUDIT-BUDDY system, data center operators can systematically improve their cooling systems and achieve significant improvements in efficiency and reliability
How to Monitor Your Network Closet
Monitoring the environment of a network closet is essential for ensuring the proper functioning and longevity of the equipment housed within it. To do this, it's important to regularly check the temperature, humidity, and airflow within the closet using the AUDIT-BUDDY system.
How to Respond to Increased Data Center Demand & Energy Cost in 2023
The demand for storage and processing of digital information has never been greater. Yet, Data Center managers are being challenged to “do more with less.” This article covers how to create a simple cooling optimization strategy.
Data Centers in the Mist
While evaporative humidification systems are more energy efficient than legacy steam humidification, how do you know that the humidification is dispersed evenly across the white space?
Two Types of Environmental Monitors
You need to monitor your data center environment to ensure the reliable operation of your IT equipment. However, there are thousands of environmental monitors on the market. How do you pick the right one? This article covers the two types of environmental monitors - permanent and temporary — and there pros and cons.
UK and Western Europe Data Centers and the Impact of Raising Gas Prices
As the price of gas continues to rise across the globe, operators are searching for new methods, technologies and strategies to save on electricity costs. One simple solution is to use baseline your existing environment to identify simple airflow inefficiencies. With AUDIT-BUDDY, it’s simple to collect data and take action.
How to Respond to a Hot Spot in Your Data Center
Learn how our customer used the AUDIT-BUDDY to respond to a hot spot, and found a faulty BMS sensor.
Use Server Delta-T to Improve Cooling Efficiency
Server delta-T is a powerful indicator of your facility’s cooling performance, and yet it is rarely monitored. This article explores how measuring the server delta-T can determine how much cooling is required for the current IT Load, and how much is being wasted due to bypass and recirculation airflow.
Why Thermal Audits of Data Centers should be a Standard Preventative Maintenance Activity
Regardless whether you have a new construction or legacy facility, regular thermal audits should be a part of your standard preventative maintenance routine.