The article explores Upsite’s recent release of the updated CCF white paper. From the article:
Company Upsite Technologies, the leading provider of systems and solutions for the optimization and control the air flow inside the data center, has updated its popular collection of recommendations Cooling Capacity Factor (CCF) White Paper, the first version of which was published in April of this year. The updated collection includes a variety of practical information gathered by experts Upsite Technologies thanks to active cooperation with representatives of industry data center and a feedback mechanism.
The creators of the updated document more closely at the issues of methodology air flow control (Airflow Management; AFM), so familiarized with this collection of data center operators will be able to take effective measures to improve the energy efficiency of its object.
To create this collection of experts interviewed Upsite Technologies IT-specialists of fifty data centers. They found that the average nominal cooling capacity of the cooling systems of these server farms, nearly four times the needs of IT-equipment. In one case, experts Upsite Technologies was observed in more than 30-fold excess cooling capacity of the cooling system of the heat load. It turned out that the owners of the data center can save an average of $ 32 thousand per year by implementing simple and practical techniques to optimize AFM, which are often overlooked.
“After receiving many positive responses from the data center industry, we redesigned our metrics and added more data,” said a senior engineer Upsite Technologies Lars Strong. “The changes made in this collection of recommendations allow data center operators to quickly optimize the controlled objects at the lowest cost.”
Introduced in April of this year, the metric is called the coefficient of cooling capacity (Cooling Capacity Factor; CCF) was developed Upsite Technologies, the operators of data centers can quickly analyze the cooling capacity controlled objects. Factor determines the ratio of the total installed capacity of cooling systems (nominal) to the critical load. The resulting number indicates how well the current time using the resources of cooling.
