Dell Builds Efficient ‘Microsite’ Data Centre For Microsoft

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1. Dell’s ‘microsite’ housing Microsoft’s Bing Maps uses evaporative cooling and fresh-air for greater efficiency Dell officials are touting the data centre “microsite” they created for Microsoft’s Bing Maps business as an example of what can be done in building a high-performance environment that is also highly efficient. Dell, in conjunction with networking vendor Mellanox Technologies, created the microsite – a modular compartmentalised solution within a data centre site created for a specific workload – that offers 100 percent fresh-air and evaporative-cooling technology to drive up the efficiency of the facility and reach a PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) of 1.03. (Read Full Article)

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