Survey: rack density will keep creeping up and complexity is growing
Facilities and network energy efficiency ranks among the top concerns of almost half of data center, facility and IT managers surveyed recently.
Fifty per cent reported that adequate monitoring was one of top three concerns.
The survey revealed that about 60 percent of respondents had to cut their budgets because of the poor economy and 35 percent delayed new build or expansion projects. More than half of respondents said future facilities would be designed to support densities of 10KW and 20KW per rack, while current facilities support an average of 7.4 KW per rack.
Reasons behind higher density were pressure to save space, support for blade servers and reduction of energy costs.
About half of the respondents said the complexity of their cooling, monitoring and power systems was increasing and about half conducted power and cooling assessments to deal with the complexities.
Of those who undertook assessment projects, 74 ...
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