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Component makers continue to develop more energy-efficient processors, power supplies, and other components that allow servers to consume less power and to run cooler. Yet server thermal problems are still not going away anytime soon. Server downtime, data loss, and destroyed components due to overheating are potential nightmares that IT admins will continue to face.

SMEs also often struggle with stricter cost constraints when it comes to investing in cooling solutions compared to larger companies. Yet SMEs cannot afford not to invest in proper cooling systems to prevent thermal issues from destroying equipment and data, either. The good news is that there are several steps and technologies SMEs can use to prevent data center thermal issues from getting out of control.

“Maintaining a suitable environment for information technologies is arguably the No. 1 problem facing data center and computer room managers today,” says Michael Petrino, vice president of PTS Data Center Solutions (www.ptsdcs.com). “Dramatic and unpredictable critical load growth has levied a heavy burden on the cooling infrastructure of these facilities, making intelligent, efficient design crucial to maintaining an always-available data center.”

Check out this article which is talking about cooling the data center. It remains a hot topic, how you approach a consolidation approach, or even cooling the data center is one of the topics of conversations I hear Data Center guys and CIOs talking about regularly. Working out what options are available, what the costs/issues involved with them are for your data center and your IT is the key, identifying that we can’t switch to fresh air cooling, but we can say consolidate the external storage on to SAN, virtualize the development servers or the packaging environment. Focus on what you can achieve in big or little steps and move on from there.

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