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For the past decade, traditional air-cooling with CRAC, CRAH, and fan walls have been the industry workhorse. Pump a lot of air across the room, perhaps with containment aisles, fix the hotspots, and for the most part, it keeps systems in range. But today, escalating rack and heat densities are surpassing what traditional air cooling was ever designed to handle.
OptiCool Technologies, a leading provider of data center liquid cooling systems, today announced it has entered into a Value Added Reseller (VAR) agreement with SHI International, one of North America’s largest IT solutions providers. This agreement will help fuel OptiCool’s ambitious market expansion and growth, while enhancing SHI’s IT solutions with a sustainable data center cooling offering.
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Security Service Federal Credit Union—which operates 72 branches in Texas, Colorado and Utah—wanted to future-proof its new campus by designing data centers with scalability and energy efficiency in mind. OptiCool’s cooling solution proved highly flexible and redundant for the company’s data center buildout, reducing operational expenses, equipping the facilities for future growth, and allowing the company to recoup costs through energy rebates.
Telecommunications service provider FairPoint Communications of Manchester, New Hampshire, faced unique equipment cooling challenges in building out a new data center facility in an existing building. OptiCool's innovative cooling solutions proved to be low-maintenance, highly adaptable part of the operator’s buildout, providing a modular, plug-and-play approach to the process of adding racks and rooms without disrupting other customers’ equipment.
Victory Technology Center of Buffalo, NY was initially designed as a dedicated data center to support Catholic Health, Western New York’s second largest multi-hospital healthcare system. The design firm MDC Solutions was brought on to retrofit a recently closed hospital into a data center to meet the healthcare system’s rising technology demands.
MITRE was the first company in New England and one of the first enterprises in the U.S. to implement an innovative refrigerant-based cooling solution to support its computing facility in Bedford, Massachusetts. After four years, MITRE’s High-Performance Compute Center is a dramatic example of how progressive thinking and solid system analysis can deliver effective solutions to a complex problem.
