Web hosting downtime can be reduced with cooling assessments

Avoiding downtime in web hosting facilities and data storage centres is becoming more critical.

And one of the easiest ways to avoid unnecessary downtime is to carry out a facility thermal assessment, it has been claimed.

Jeff Powers, service product manager at Emerson Network Power Service, claimed that a thermal assessment will highlight any problems with heat dissipation and could safeguard against heat sensitive equipment, such as servers and switches, getting damaged.

Writing for the Data Centre Journal, he said: "Taking temperature readings at critical points is the first step in identifying hot spots and resolving problems that could result in equipment degradation."

He claimed modern data centres were creating more heat than ever before, making efficient cooling extremely important.

Meanwhile, Ameinfo.com noted that cooling modern network equipment can prove problematic in existing data centre facilities.

The website claimed that vendors are creating servers that require 40kW of cooling per rack and some facilities are only capable of 2kW.

Written by Debra Hastings-Henry