Cooling the Data Centre or Server room is one of the biggest challenges facing organisations today.

Effective environmental control improves the overall function and reliability of a computer room. By engaging Cumulus as part of the design, specification and planning process through to implementation of your computer room or data centre you can be assured the cooling system will run both effectively and efficiently.

Cumulus have a team of Engineers with decades of experience with managing and mitigating heat issues. Cumulus can provide heat profiling and thermal projections which give a clear picture of likely 'hot-spots' and where the likely issues will be.

At Cumulus our staff are constantly training or being briefed by industry and vendor experts so we are always up to date with the latest Data Centre cooling technologies.

Assessing the electrical power required to support and cool the critical loads within the data centre is essential to planning for the development of a facility. Cumulus know that some modern servers may demand as much as 35 kW of cooling per rack, approximately 10 times the average rack power in traditional data centres. With most data centres designed to cool an average of 3 kW per rack, innovative strategies must be used to guarantee proper high density cooling. Cumulus engineers have over 30 years Data Centre design, build and engineering experience and are well positioned to assist with any cooling projects.

Making the wrong choices when specifying a data centre or server room’s high density cooling operations can have a massive impact on the initial cost and on going operational cost not to mention the risk of hardware failure due to excess thermal exposure.

Some of the data centre systems / solutions that Cumulus design, specify and install include;

• Raised Floors to assist with airflow and hot spot reduction
• Use precision air-conditioning units
• High-efficiency air filters - particularly important for some of New Zealand’s rural and coastal environments
• Using positive room air pressurisation to create a barrier to protect against ingress of dust, dust and corrosive elements
• Design a hot aisle / cold aisle layout strategy to produce the most efficient cooling
• Containment of hot or cold aisle evnrionments
• In row point cooling systems
• In rack cooling for specialist applications
• Direct exchange and chilled water systems