At Data Centre World, Boston will unveil its range of liquid cooled server and storage offerings. With the use of liquid cooling, data centers could reduce their cooling costs by up to 93% cost reduction when compared to air cooling, the company claims.
The company said that this new offering features patented ‘modular immersion technology’ from Iceotope that leverages the thermal superiority of liquids to reduce the operating costs of data centers and large scale computing facilities.
Each server motherboard is immersed in an individually sealed bath of inert liquid coolant, which passively transfers heat away from the electronics to an integrated heat exchanger formed by the wall of the bath where water is continuously recirculated and cooled.
Boston claims that compared to traditional air cooling systems the two liquids are thousands of times more effective in capturing and transferring heat, thereby requiring much less energy to run the overall system as the water can be allowed to run warmer whilst still providing adequate cooling.
The company’s offering eliminates the requirement for CRAC (computer room air conditioning) units and reduces the need to operate chillers by exchanging heat directly with the air outside the data center.
Boston will also be demonstrating their new range of Fenway Virtualised server and storage offerings, which have been designed from the ground upwards based on the latest generation of server and visualization technologies.
On display at Boston’s stand will be Supermicro’s industry leading Twin Blade platform running Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2; the offering includes 20 blade servers housed into a single power optimized 7U server enclosure, which operates at up to 94% power efficiency.
Boston’s new GP Green power server platforms will also represented on their stand with the Igloo 2100T server that is packaged into an ultra short depth 1U chassis featuring the latest Intel dual core processors.
Manoj Nayee, managing director of BostonIT, said: ”With data centers rapidly increasing in terms of size, power budgets and cooling capacity the impact on both the environment and our own wallets is more apparent than ever.
”As more and more data centers are starting to hit their energy envelopes the majority of organizations are finally starting to pay more attention to tracking their power consumption and looking into more efficient cooling strategies; in fact in today’s data centers cooling is now more of a significant factor of the two.”
