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Data Centers Caught in a Cool FLIRy

Posted on June 20, 2008

I was recently talking to Richard Donaldson (an adviser of ours at Panorama Capital) of United Layer about a novel approach to optimizing data center cooling ??? using forward-looking infrared (FLIR) cameras. United Layer rents a FLIR camera, he told me, the kind typically used to help pilots see at night or in dense fog, to create an infrared thermal image of equipment racks in which inefficient configurations can be easily detected. Once they re found, United Layer works with the customer to redesign their rack layout, improving equipment performance, lifetime and total cost of ownership. ...

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