ADVERTORIAL MINKELS
Issue 4, June 2009
Data Center EvoSwitch Gains Substantial Savings with Minkels Cold Corridors
“Installation of the Minkels Cold Corridors has a significant influence on lowering our Power Usage Effectiveness,” says Eric Boonstra, Commercial Director of EvoSwitch. “Currently we have a PUE of 1.6, which is quite low already, but 1.2 is a very realistic objective in the near future.”
EvoSwitch is an innovative ‘next-generation’ data center with green credentials and a management team that is continuously on the search for further energy savings to be made. The installation of Cold Corridors was one of the first measures being taken to lower the PUE of the data center.
Energy savings: 40 percent Says Boonstra, “Power consumption by IT infrastructure continues to increase, while the amount of power available on the market continues to decrease. We’re one step ahead of this development.”
EvoSwitch was set up in 2006. Free Cooling - which is a low-energy cooling concept that makes use of the cool outside air that is abundant in the Netherlands - and Cold Corridors were among the main energy saving options implemented by EvoSwitch. Says Boonstra, “From the start this already resulted in total energy savings of 20 percent compared to a traditional data center environment. Within two years these savings even doubled to 40 percent, which equals a PUE of 1.6.”
“The concept of Cold Corridor saves us energy by separating cold and hot airflows.” Eric Boonstra, Commercial Director of EvoSwitch
Free Cooling and Cold Corridor “Although it’s hard for us to determine the exact effects of each energy saving measure in itself, I can say that Cold Corridor plays a key role in our low-energy operations,” says Boonstra. “The concept of Cold Corridor, with back-to-back positioning of servers, provides the equipment with more efficient cooling by separating cold and hot airflows, thus preventing any ‘short- circuiting’ between hot and cold air.”
Cold Corridor enables EvoSwitch to raise the maximum inlet
Minkels Cold Corridor® Cold Corridor® (
www.minkels.com/coldcorridor) is a data center cooling solution in which hot air is separated from cold air flows. The exact solution differs from client to client and is always the result of accurate alignment of different factors, such as but not limited to an obstacle-free under floor design, rack covering plates, doors and roof construction. Cold Corridor is a registered trademark of Minkels, one of the first suppliers of this concept in Europe. Because of its front runners position, Minkels recently was asked to share its knowledge for drawing up the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centers.
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About Data Center EvoSwitch EvoSwitch (
www.evoswitch.com) is a carrier-neutral ‘green’ data center located in the Amsterdam region, with clients like Wikimedia Foundation, Infonet and Royal Joh. Enschedé. This next-generation data center has good telecom connections, 20 MW up to 40 MW energy capacity, and a spacious floor area of more than 9,000 m2
. EvoSwitch has a carbon neutral character,
which means that green energy is being used and all possible measures are taken to operate the premises in a very energy efficient way. EvoSwitch also invests in worldwide projects to restore the CO2
balance in the atmosphere.
temperature of the servers, currently to a 24 degrees Celsius average. “That’s because our cooling air is more equally distributed and hotspots can’t arise that easily,” says Boonstra. “Together with Free Cooling this reduces our need to operate the compressor substantially.”
Please find further information at
www.minkels.com
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