Yesterday marked a transition for
EDS, which was officially rebranded as
HP Enterprise Services. There’s been a
lot of coverage [1] of the business and employment impact of the deal. But the acquisition also brought some exceptional data center facilities, including the Service Management Center (SMC) built by EDS in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Earlier this year the Tulsa data center opened
an expansion [2] that doubled its size to 179,000 square feet, including 80,000 square feet of raised-floor space that can house more than 12,000 servers. HP has released a video providing a look inside the Tulsa facility. While not a full tour, the video reviews some of the energy efficiency features and offers views of the raised-floor area (check out the chimneys on the high-density cabinets) and water cooling system, including a look inside the cooling towers.
HP also will benefit from a data center being built by EDS/HP Enterprise in
Wynyard, England [3]which features use an unusual architecture for its free cooling system, treating the entire 12-foot high first floor of the facility as a cold air plenum, with the server cabinets housed on the second floor. The 305,000 square foot facility in Wynyard is being called “Eco 2″ for its energy efficiency features.
Check out our
Green Data Center Channel [4] for more on this topic. For additional video, visit our
DCK video archive [5] and the
Data Center Videos [6]channel on YouTube.
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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[1] lot of coverage: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/technology/business-computing/23hewlett.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
[2] an expansion: http://h10134.www1.hp.com/news/features/5647/
[3] Wynyard, England : http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/06/03/a-12-foot-raised-floor/
[4] Green Data Center Channel: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/category/green-data-centers/
[5] DCK video archive: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/data_center_videos-index.html
[6] Data Center Videos : http://www.youtube.com/user/DataCenterVideos
[7] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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