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Cool runnings: IBM's recipe for a happy datacentre, in pictures

Summary: How do you make your datacentre run better, and save money? At IBM's research labs and facilities in upstate New York, three ideas are uppermost on people's minds: energy efficiency, monitoring, and utilisation.

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Cabinets are fitted with rear-door heat exchangers, which suck in the hot exhaust air of the servers and blast it out again as cold air. The technology - the IP is owned by IBM - can take away up to 60 percent of the heat in a full rack, the company claims.

The result of these changes is a datacentre PUE (power usage effectiveness) of 1.27, which generated a return on IBM's investment within 10 months.

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Topics: Cloud, Data Centers, Datacentre Tour, Emerging Tech, IBM, Servers

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  • IBM's racks suck!

    Take a look at the cable management. It is Horrible. We had a project where IBM brought in their own RACK as part of a solution and had to live with it for 5 years until we finally got rid of that garbage. There is virtually none or poor cable management. We standardized on APC Wide and Deep racks with proper cable management and its far superior. They really need to do something about this if they want to provide complete solutions that work well in a professional server environment. I'd send back any solution that strings cables everywhere like that. Just my 2 cents.
    Drewidian
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  • half?

    "So you want to make the infrastructure half of the pie as small as possible."

    I think I see your problem.
    RedEmma
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  • Blue glow

    What are those racks with the blue glow in between the Netezza and the System z? Power 795?
    AdamS12
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