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Hidden heroes must keep their cool

11/10/2019

Chris Gee

In today’s data-driven world and with the ever-increasing trend towards “cloud based” information, Aspen Pumps Group Technical Director Chris Gee takes a look at the role which cooling has to play and the importance of continuous innovation.

Data centres are vital to global connectivity. Our content – from laugh-out-loud YouTube cat videos to financial and sensitive personal information, is all stored and distributed from these data centres 24/7.

Airedale targets European growth

14/8/2019

Jonas Caino, Airedale International

Airedale International has appointed Jonas Caino to head up its new European data centre solutions team.

With over 20 years in the IT and data centre industry, Jonas has an extensive background in the technology and regularly speaks and writes on data centre design and trends.

Plan to beat the heat

8/7/2019

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With many parts of Europe experiencing record temperatures this summer, Aggreko is urging businesses to address their power and cooling equipment contingency plans.

Any business reliant on power and cooling to function - most notably data centres - is now at higher risk of failure due to extreme temperatures such as those recently recorded in France.

Aqua earns data centre award

10/6/2019

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Aqua Group’s Mike West, centre, receiving the award

Aqua Group has been recognised at the 2019 Data Centre Solutions Awards for its commitment to energy efficient data centre design.

The Hampshire-based temperature control company won the Data Centre Energy Efficiency Project of the Year category for a project undertaken for client 4D, who selected Aqua to upgrade the existing chiller-based cooling system for a legacy data centre facility at Gatwick Airport.

Aermec UK strengthens sales team

3/5/2019

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Alan Tyson

Stuart Allen

Aermec UK has strengthened its sales team with three appointments as part of the company’s expansion strategy, which it says has a strong momentum in the UK and Europe.

Aqua secures data centre deal

22/1/2019

Hampshire-based temperature control specialist Aqua Group has been named as a strategic partner to PVD Modular in a deal which will see at least seven off-the-grid data centres built across Norway and Finland.

Aqua will join the engineering teams designing the full heat transfer process of each facility.

New recruits follow Distech growth

23/4/2018

Mark Blyghton

Morten Jensen

Distech Controls has expanded its team in response to what it describes as rapid growth in the UK market.

IT cooling solutions from Mitsubishi Electric

26/2/2018

Mitsubishi Electric is again exhibiting at the Data Centre World exhibition on 21-22 March at ExCel London.

Graham Temple, Marketing Manager for the company’s range of IT cooling solutions, said: “This exhibition attracts over 20,000 visitors and gives us an ideal opportunity to promote the extensive range of products and solutions we can offer to a wide variety of IT cooling applications.”

Klima-Therm joins Data Centre Alliance

2/8/2017

Tim Mitchell of Klima-Therm

Klima-Therm has joined the Data Centre Alliance (DCA) as part of planned expansion in the data centre cooling market.

The DCA is an international association representing data centre operators, designers and infrastructure providers, which supports the industry through lobbying government, leading research and harmonising standards across the sector.

Airedale upgrades Ultima for R410A

24/3/2017

Airedale International Air Conditioning has launched upgraded editions of its Ultima compact chiller and condensing ranges (30-150kW), optimised for use with R410A refrigerant.

The units are compact with single or dual circuit variants, offering regular quiet and extra quiet sound variants. The latest generation edition can achieve an EER (Energy Efficiency Ratio) of up to 3.6 and an ESEER (European Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio) of up to 4.7 (Ultima compact chiller range).

Data centre energy efficiency seminar

20/2/2017

Fan manufacturer ebm-papst will stage its first UK energy-saving seminar of 2017 next month.

The Data Centre Energy Efficiency & Design Seminar takes place on 29 March at the ebm-papst Client Centre in Chelmsford, Essex.

Demystifying data centre cooling

23/1/2017

Data centres are at the heart of a business and must be kept running at all costs

Richard Metcalfe of ICS Cool Energy

With virtually every aspect of the commercial world reliant on information being transported and stored electronically, server rooms and data centres have fast become the beating heart of global communications. Here Richard Metcalfe, Sales Director at temperature control specialists ICS Cool Energy, discusses the varying ways heating and cooling engineers can get to grips with data centre cooling, and help keep their customers’ systems running in both a cost and energy-efficient way.

There’s no escaping the fact that data centres form a critical part of business infrastructure for a wide variety of market sectors. Ensuring they remain operational no matter what is a major challenge, and one that is quite different to those usually faced by temperature control contractors.

Many facilities and IT managers often fall into the trap of striving for continual performance and paying over and above what they need to for energy, so it is the contractor’s responsibility to ensure they have the most appropriate cooling system in place which won’t cost the earth.

Data Centre: Design Your Own in Less Than a Minute

28/10/2016

Design Your Own Data Centre

The data centre design market became more accessible recently with the launch of an online tool to help users design their own edge or micro data centre.

The free service from the Midlands-based Workspace Technology team gives customers the chance to set their own parameters, number of racks and cooling choices. When complete, users see a 3D model of their data design design. The tool also creates a 'virtual guided tour video' of their data centre, which users can download and watch.

Hyper Data Centres Change Precision Cooling Market

25/8/2015

BSRIA's latest report shows that large hyper data centres are impacting the precision cooling market away from traditional computer room air-conditioning (CRAC) systems.

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