Questions from the Field: Can You Support High Density?
June 28, 2017
If you’re shopping for a colocation data center, and a provider says they can support high density, ask them how they do it.
Quick take
- Our new Technical Brief explains the answer to a question we get often: Can you support high density?
- Asking how a data center provider supports high density is just as important as asking whether the data center provider supports high density.
- Our adaptive data center supports 1-50 kW per rack, in the same row, without stranding capacity.
- Our dynamic cooling infrastructure allows clients to run high density in a variety of rack configurations, and to easily change density without reconfiguring the rack layout.
If you’re shopping for a colocation data center, and a provider says they can support high density, follow up on the question and ask them how.
Can Aligned’s colocation data centers support high density? Yes. In significantly less space, with a variety of rack configurations and dynamic density that is easy to change without reconfiguring the rack layout – all without any additional in-row cooling systems.
In our new Technical Brief, you will learn how supporting high density is about the ability of the data center cooling system to deal with the extra heat generated by high density servers. And about how, at Aligned, our adaptive data center supports 1-50 kW per rack, in the same row, without stranding capacity.
Download our Technical Brief to find out more about how we support high density.
Our Tech Brief explains why we’re focused on density, the density that meets our clients’ needs.
Up to 50 kW per rack in significantly less space
The question of whether (and how) a data center provider can support high density is increasingly important as more end-users are moving to higher density environments – from the typical 3-5 kW per rack to 8-12 kW and even 20 kW and beyond.
Our approach was born out of the understanding that the data center cooling problem is actually a heat removal problem. Instead of blowing cold air into the data center, our technology removes heat. It’s an approach centered on the mission to create a better data center. We describe how we’ve done that in the Technical Brief.
High density in variety of rack configurations designed for dynamic loads
Traditional data centers are configured at a static density. At Aligned’s colocation data centers, in contrast, cooling infrastructure is dynamic. Many of the same technology innovations that make our cooling infrastructure dynamic also make it efficient and effective at any density.
So whether you’re an oil & gas company looking for the next North Slope or a genomics researcher developing a cure for cancer, asking your data center provider how they support high density is as important as asking if they do. To learn how we support high density, download the Technical Brief.
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Download our Technical Brief to find out more about how we support high density.
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