Future Thinking & Design Concepts 01 About the award
Behind every great product, solution or service is a great idea, and this award is about recognising the ideas and thinking that will shape the future direction of data center design and operation,
or strategies
that meet the challenges of tomorrow’s data center. All previous winners indicate the power that creative thinking and its application can have in shaping the data center of the future.
Sponsor Indirect Adiabatic and Evaporative Airside Economiser
UK-based Excool developed a cooling solution for the data center that is now gaining traction around the world, thanks to its energy effi ciency and simple design and maintenance requirements. T e
Schneider Electric off ers integrated solutions across multiple markets, including leadership in energy and infrastructure, industrial
processes,
building automation, and data centers and networks, as well as a broad presence in residential applications.
T e company’s data center solutions include uninterruptible power supplies, precision cooling units, racks, physical security and design. It also off ers InfraStruxure® Architecture, the industry’s most comprehensive integrated power, cooling, and management solution, and StruxureWare for Data Centers, its second- generation DCIM/DCFM software suite.
“T e company is expanding – we have taken on more factory space and will be taking on more people as it continues to expand,” Collins says, highlighting Excool’s success. “T e DatacenterDynamics award enhances this drive, and we hope to see a lot more enquiries as a result of winning the award.”
T e Excool solution takes up a small footprint on the exterior of a building, leaving more room inside for compute equipment. To create the adiabatic cooling solution, the Excool team had to work on the system’s heat transfer medium to overcome issues with heat transfer, adiabatic system effi ciency and power-hungry compressors.
“An acceptance of higher server inlet temperatures in 2008 and better air management made effi cient use of indirect adiabatic cooling more viable,” Collins says. “T e main challenges were to remove the risk of outdoor air contamination entering the data center, to ensure we could maintain a stable environment and do this reliably and more effi ciently than existing systems.”
Finalists 2011
2bm & Jacarta T e 2bm iMeter intelliAmp Power Monitoring Probe
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Equinix Equinix Amsterdam 3
Hitachi High Effi ciency Natural Refrigerant Circulation Cooling Technology
Excool system uses both air and water to reduce the need for mechanical cooling, using 500 cubed meters of water for every 1MW cooled, promising an annualized average power of 25-35KW.
Excool director Mark Collins says that since Excool developed its cooling unit last year there has been increased interest around the world —from Australia, the Southwest of America and the Far East, where data centers in Russia and China are looking to purchase the solution. It is already deployed in Peer 1’s newest UK data center.
“Since Excool developed its cooling unit last year there has been increased interest from around the world – from Australia to the southwest of America and the Far East”
Winner 2011 EXCOOL
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