A certain vendor, I won’t say which one, is showing a slide deck about the “best way” to reduce data center energy costs: implement warm and cold aisles to better ventilate equipment. Here is the before picture:
And here is the after picture.
The hot spots in the latter pic are the result of not plugging all the holes in your racks, obviating some of the intended hot air dissipation path. Clearly, we should buy more 1, 2 and 3-u rack mounted storage to plug the holes.
One pic that didn’t make the slide deck was this one, which shows a customer who just realized that he has paid way too much for storage with the vendor in question and that cycling heat out of the data center didn’t actually green anything.
BTUs are a function of poor energy conversion, aren’t they? Maybe the room would be cooler if we got sensible about data management and reduced the need to deploy all the damned spinning rust…
I love these thermal imaging cameras. Everyone should have one.
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