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Control Your Environment

Are you sweltering with your computers?

As technology becomes more essential for business operation, organisations are required to implement very powerful servers into space saving cabinets within a central location. This mass congregation of powerful equipment in a small confirmed space produces a lot of heat that needs to be countered to ensure they function at their peak performance and you extend their longevity.

Do you have hot and cold zones in your computer room?

You may have noticed certain areas in your computer room are cold and some are hot. Computers are designed to push heat out in a specific direction and your cooling system must be designed appropriate to handle this flow of heat. Maintaining the correct temperature and humidity for the entire room is essential and not difficult to do if the right equipment is used.

At Computer Site Solutions (CSS) we have been designing, installing and maintaining computer rooms for over 23 years. Understanding how computers ventilate their heat and their overall cooling requirements is key to a successful air conditioning implementation. This is especially critical when large numbers of computers are consolidated into small confided areas such are racks.

But can’t any air conditioner do the job?

There are many different types of air conditioners on the market today. They all vary in the way they actually cool down a room and some are more suited to cooling a building full of people not computer rooms full of machines generating extreme amounts of heat.

Keeping people comfortable is quite different to protecting electronics and magnetic data, 24 hours 7 days each week.

Precision environmental control prolongs the life of your equipment, at greatly reduced operating costs.

Here are some of the things to consider when assessing whether a dedicated air conditioning system is appropriate for your network or computer room.

Precision Air Conditioning vs Building or Comfort Systems
Designed to operate 8,760 hrs/yr	Perhaps 1,200 hours for office hours
Purpose designed system parameters	IT equipment often installed after occupancy
Easier & lower-cost upgrade path	Upgrades to capacity usually expensive
Higher efficiency on sensible cooling	Designed to cool people & remove humidity
Minimal humidification costs	30-40% of operating $'s removes humidity
Reduced operating costs - up to 60% lower	Out-of-hours operation not desirable
Stand-by capability	Limited stand-by - if at all

CSS has been the service agent in SA/NT for Emerson Network Power/Liebert since 1983. No one knows more about precision cooling than Emerson Network Power. Liebert is the global market leader in this space.

Their precision cooling business started back in 1965 with the Liebert product line. Their cooling technology has been proven in thousands of critical data centres around the world. In fact there are Liebert precision sir conditioning systems in the field that have been in constant use for over 30 years – a purchase that has spanned many generations of computer technology.

For more information on Emerson Network Power, please go to www.emersonnetwork.com.au.