Oracle and the Dawn of Containment

Data Center Knowledge (Jan 27 2010) Container

1. Attend any data center industry event these days, and you’re likely to hear multiple presentations mentioning the merits of variable speed airflow and isolating hot and cold air in the data center. But things were different back in 2004, when the data center team at Oracle Corp. confronted rising heat loads as the comapny expanded its Austin, Texas data center. “There was no discussion of variable airflow, there was no discussion of containment,” said Mukesh Khattar, Director of Energy at Oracle. “At the time it was hot aisle/cold aisle.” (Read Full Article)

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