Data Center Consulting by 42U

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Are you having cooling, power, or capacity issues in your data center?  Looking to develop a new data center, but are unsure if the space is ideal?  Wish to decrease operating costs through efficiency best practices?  42U, the data center efficiency experts, can help.



Whether you are designing a new space, retrofitting an existing server room, or just need to find extra capacity; 42U's expert staff will help you create the most cost effective solution to your data center needs.

The 42U advantage includes:

• 40 + combined years of  data center design, engineering, management, and facilities experience
• Unique understanding of small space / tenant constraints 
• Superior knowledge of power & cooling topologies gained over 16 years of industry excellence
• Data center experience all the way down to the chip level leads to holistic efficiency solutions
• Certified Professional Engineer (PE) on staff
• Senior Project Manager is Project Management Professional (PMP) certified 

Some of 42U's most popular data center consulting services include:
Data Center Power & Cooling Health Check - Basic data center efficiency / best practice consultation

Data Center Condition & Capacity Assessment - Comprehensive data center optimization assessment

SynapSense Active Control Data Center Cooling Software

Data center monitoring is an integral part of managing any server room. Beyond monitoring though, efficient use of cooling resources is critical to reducing data center operating costs and effectively managing IT capacity changes.  To help data center professionals with this critical task, SynapSense has recently released a new software package which, when combined with SynapSense wireless sensors, affords IT managers the fine grain control over cooling resources that today's energy efficient data centers demand. 

SynapSense's new Active Control automated data center cooling software monitors server room cooling needs by tracking server inlet temperature and sub-floor pressure differentials via the wireless sensors. Using this data, Active Control dynamically adjusts CRAH (Computer Room Air Handler) temperature set points and fan speeds to meet changing IT demand loads. This dynamic approach to controlling data center cooling can dramatically reduce server room energy costs up to 30%.

SynapSense Active Control Server Room Cooling Software Dashboard

You don't leave all of your lights on every day, why cool data centers to meet 100% capacity 100% of the time. Take control of your data center cooling today and realize immediate energy savings and increased efficiency.  Learn more about SynapSense Active Control from 42U, your data center engineering professionals.

42U Achieves Avocent's Top 10 Million Dollar Club Honoree Award

Broomfield, CO - February 11, 2010: Avocent Corporation, a division of Emerson Network Power, announced that 42U, the nation's leading provider of Data Center Efficiency Solutions, made Avocent’s Top 10 Million Dollar Club Honoree. This award was presented only to select top 10 partners of Avocent who achieved sales volume exceeding $1 million in 2009 and whose main business supports Avocent’s IT infrastructure access and management solutions.

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Curbing IT Power Usage

New Ideas To Save Energy In Your Data Center

Thanks to energy hogs such as blade centers, data center energy costs are high. SMEs will find it hard to absorb these kinds of financial hits without some help. Fortunately, there are more than a few ways to curb power consumption.

Measure Power Consumption
According to Chris Loeffler, product manager of the data center solutions group at Eaton (www.eaton.com), one of the biggest trends in data center energy savings is toward looking at how to monitor or meter data center power consumption (through power consumption metrics).

Data centers should start by measuring their power consumption across all of IT. “SMEs can’t afford to do much submetering. But, they can afford a power consumption monitor that they can plug selected equipment in to see how much electricity is being consumed by a range of representative equipment,” says Simon Mingay, research vice president at Gartner.

For SMEs that can’t afford the power monitor setup, equipment vendors (server and air-conditioning unit companies) have power consumption numbers available. These often come from the vendor’s customers. This information can be used to model power consumption of the IT infrastructure (using simple spreadsheets), according to Mingay.

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