In the data center today, we're often focused on virtualization, cloud-based technologies, applications and switches, ignoring the consumption of data center power. However, this oversight can lead to critical problems and costly effects on the environment overall.

A recent Tech Target report highlighted the importance of monitoring data center power consumption, offering strategies for the more efficient management of this power over time. The most important point is to create an environment that is conscious of power consumption. Make monitoring a priority; after all, you can't manage what you don't monitor.

To get to the point where you can properly monitor your data center power, you must research what you currently have, identify where you want to be in five years, 10 years and so on, and how your technology purchases will affect your power usage both in the short- and long-term. 

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Dear Valued SharkRack Customer, 

 

SharkRack would like to thank everyone who came by to see our booth at the AFCOM show in Las Vegas last month.  It was great to meet with so many of our loyal customers.  This month we are off to Colorado and will be showing at the IT Summit  show on April 25th. It is going to be at the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum in Denver. We will be at booth #117,  please stop by to learn more about what ShrakRack can do for you.

With spring upon us and enterprise disk drives starting to flow out of the factories again, we are looking forward to an incredible second quarter of 2012. Sharkrack can make any size rack or color that you need. If you have a non standard height, width or depth project please call us today and let us quote you.  

(510) 265-3690   balbert@sharkrack.com   

In the March issue, we discussed some airflow fault areas, with the area under the rack as our first point.Today we will go through some of the other areas where there is fault in the airflow. Currently there is a high demand for adjustable front rails and cable pass-thru capability leaving the space to the left and right of the rails on most racks with leakage points.  The space between the side of the vertical rail and the side of the rack frame or side panel is wide open.  This is a potential leakage area in which either hot air can slip through, or cold air can pass through.

Today's wider racks have an additional three inches on each side of the 19" rails to provide space for cooling side to side switches or space managing a lot of network cables.  To get out to the side or up to the top, cables are passed through openings that are typically not sealed.  These openings should be sealed with a material that provides coverage around the cables to prevent air leakage.  

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