The higher heat generation of new IT and telecommunications equipment contributes to hot spots in data centres. Due to poor cooling airflow and improper cooling unit utilisation, the ability to reliably cool equipment has become issue in the majority of these data centres. In a study conducted by The Uptime Institute(r), over 70% of conditioned air was not properly cooling the equipment. In addition, air intake temperatures at 10% of the racks exceeded published guidelines for maximum server reliability.
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The higher ambient temperatures typically found in equipment housed at the top of racks cause reliability “ghosts” and computing outages. Heat-related outages have a dramatically negative impact on business operations—particularly mission critical applications that rely on “always on” data centres. Information outages can bring a business to its knees!
Cable cutouts waste conditioned airflow. This lost conditioned airflow is called Bypass Airflow.
Reclaiming Bypass Airflow by sealing unmanaged openings can help resolve this problem. KoldLok Raised-Floor Grommets have become the “industry standard” for effectively sealing cable cutouts. They are recommend by equipment manufacturers such as IBM, Dell, HP and Sun and by Independent Professional Organisations such as the Uptime Institute.
KoldLok Product Benefits

KoldLok offers a suite of high-quality products that seal unmanaged raised-floor openings and self-seal around cables and conduits to improve computer room reliability.Benefits include:

• Sealing effectiveness up to 98% of cable cut out air losses
• Increased under-floor static pressure
• Increased airflow through perforated floor tiles
• Enable precision delivery of airflow to equipment cabinet air intakes
• AC incapacity from cooling exhaust air instead of computing technology is minimized
• Bleed-off static charge build up on cables to raised-floor conductive surface

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