Green Enterprise IT Award-Winning Technology

Opengate Data Systems, the provider of the technology behind Electorack's CoolCirc-IT High-Density Heat Containment System, has been awarded the prestigious Uptime Institute 2011 Green Enterprise IT Award.

“As data center efficiency specialists, we are constantly reviewing advanced infrastructure technology that can have an immediate impact in helping our clients achieve greater efficiencies while realizing significant savings,” said Todd Schneider, Electrorack’s Director of Marketing.  “We took a close look at Opengate’s technology last year, immediately recognized its value, and introduced CoolCirc-IT to our clientele.”

Agriculture and Agri Food Canada (AAFC), which shared the award with Opengate as the end-user of the cooling system, was to grow its data center services approximately 40% with limited infrastructure investment.  Opengate Containment Cooling systems enabled AAFC to quickly meet aggressive growth demands on data center services that were previously not possible given the center’s cooling infrastructure. The result: This highly effective and easy approach has not only allowed IT load increases beyond what was previously possible, but did so without increasing cooling costs.

CoolCirc-IT, which mounts on top of the enclosure, prevents hot exhaust and cold supply air from mixing, making the entire room a cold-air delivery zone and eliminating the need to constantly move floor tiles based on rack loads. Each redundant system utilizes dual-power inputs and two hot-swappable fan modules that easily scale up to 30kW. The modules are equipped with digital displays and LED indicator lights to provide system status and real-time airflow capacity right at the rack.

With data center budgets already stretched thin, a single CoolCirc-IT unit can be leveraged across multiple cabinets to remove the shared heat load. Cabinets are ganged together creating a single shared plenum for exhaust heat. The heat is then removed via a single CoolCirc-IT unit and chimney to the return plenum. This configuration reduces the number of chimneys required versus passive systems that require a chimney on every cabinet. Fewer chimneys reduce light blockage and allow cable ladders to pass across cabinets and aisles.

Each CoolCirc-IT system includes a networking module to provide IP access. The embedded software includes a graphical user interface to easily monitor cooling capacity, temperature, humidity and service life of each fan module. User-defined SNMP traps and alarm thresholds trigger email alerts when levels fall outside of the desired parameters. 

CoolCirc-IT maintains a ‘zero-pressure’ environment inside the rack, which is a critical element to prevent overtaxing of server fans and leakage of hot air into the room often found with passive cooling solutions. And because CoolCirc-IT mounts on top of each individual enclosure, it doesn’t consume floor space, and is suitable for deployment in raised-floor or slab environments.

“We were thrilled to see the Uptime Institute validate our decision to launch CoolCirc-IT by bestowing the prestigious GEIT award to Opengate and AAFC,” added Todd.

IT professionals can visit http://www.electrorack.com/active-heat-containment/CoolCi... to learn more and see a video of CoolCirc-IT in action.

About Electrorack | A Group brand | Legrand®

Electrorack’s catalog of advanced data center solutions moves well beyond traditional “rack” offerings, and is based on helping next-generation facilities address the critical issues of heat, power, scalability, and sustainability. Combining ready-to-install enclosures that incorporate cabling and IP-addressable metered/monitored power with Electrorack’s robust line of “IT” cooling solutions, data centers can meet their ‘green’ goals of achieving reduced energy costs and improved operating efficiencies.
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Green house cleaning Phoenix

These days everyone does their part to Earth in little ways. One of the best things you can do for the environment is to toss the harsh, toxic chemical cleaners and find a team of experts at home with eco-friendly cleaning products. If you need green house cleaning service in Phoenix, you need someone with knowledge, experience and a little bit of elbow grease.

Choose non-toxic, environmentally friendly eco-friendly cleaning products and methods, the right thing to do! Hire a cleaning service with expertise in green cleaning methods is the way to go for both your home and the future of society as a whole. Do not add any more harmful or mysterious chemicals into your water supply, soil or other neighborhood facilities. When you select an earth-friendly house cleaning, if you are looking for your entire community!

With eco friendly cleaning methods and non-toxic products are green home cleaning service in Phoenix the best choice for your well-being. Look out for the health of your family, friends, coworkers and neighbors is easier than ever when you choose green products and safe cleaning.

Natural ingredients like baking soda, vinegar and vegetable oils are safe and effective alternatives to clean all parts of a home or business. Harmful, toxic, abrasive chemicals is not necessary for a thorough cleansing of spaces. There is no job too big or small for a responsible cleaning service that knows how to get the most of what nature already provides.

If you or your child has an allergy, suffering from headaches, or dislike the smells of bleach or detergent, then it is time to switch to greener choices. Fruit oils are good for cleaning and your home can smell like oranges instead of any lingering chemical odor. Green cleaning products are a safer choice for pets, too! When you choose more eco-friendly products, locate the health and well-being of your family, pets, employees and society at large.

When you realize that it is time to make the transition from harsh chemicals to natural cleaners, turn to green home cleaning service in the Phoenix area. For you to change your family, and the whole area, more responsible cleaning choice. With an experienced team of skilled cleaners, your home will never see, smell or feel better. Keep the most important people in your life healthy with natural cleaning products.

Written by Planet Hugger a eco friendly Green House cleaning Phoenix service. Our maid is the owner of the company which offers a cleaning service in Phoenix and we use environmentally friendly products and methods to minimise our carbon footprint at the same time, leave your home sparkling clean and fresh.

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Where Old Sit-Coms Meet Green Ambition

Maybe it's the homemade windmills spinning on the balcony. Or the golf-cart batteries that power the kitchen. Or maybe it's the purple shag carpeting, the pink shutters, the "Dick Van Dyke Show" furniture, the leopard-print paint on the dining room floor or the gold Rolls Royce in the gravel driveway.

Take your pick. But for plenty of reasons, the advertising slogan declaring Neptune Vacation Suites "the most unique destination on the Eastern Shore!!" might not be hyperbole after all.

Thomas "Spess" Neblett, the owner and creator of this eclectic refuge in the quiet little town of Onley (pop. 450), said his mission is simple:

"For the people who come here, I want them to say 20 years later, 'Hey, remember that fun and kooky place we stayed at on the Eastern Shore? Wasn't that something?' "

He concedes that Neptune is not for everyone. There is no central air conditioning, no hot breakfast buffets, no panoramic views. Plus, Neblett lives downstairs with his dog, a white bichon named Billy.

"It's not some Victorian B&B," he says. "It's quirky, retro -- and that's the point."

Neblett himself is as colorful as his renovated home/inn.

He has been a piano player for Colonial Williamsburg and on cruise ships, restores antique trailer homes and resells them, owns four cars, paints, writes music, dabbles in real estate and makes his own biodiesel fuel (called Gassux) that he sells to local farmers, fishermen and uses himself.

More recently, Neblett has started instructing people -- "for free, really, though I hope they stay a couple nights" -- on how to buy alternative energy sources and install them in their homes and businesses, just as he has done at Neptune.

Here's his homespun recipe for wind turbines, for example:

Buy motors intended for treadmills. Shape blades from PVC pipe. Bolt them to a Swiss-cheesy base bought on the Internet. Wire up the makeshift turbine atop tall steel tubes.

After that, run thin power lines down the tubes to a receiving battery and converter box inside the house. And voila! -- green energy.

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Green Scene: Good books for the gardener

Since spring is right around the corner, I felt it appropriate to share some titles that will fit well into your gardening library. Books are still one of the best ways to keep up with the latest in landscape design and the needs of plants. These new favorites of mine cover a wide range of garden- and landscape-related subjects.

l"Flowering Plants: A Pictorial Guide to the World's Flora," general editor Leon Gray (Firefly Books, 2011, $24.95), has more than 700 detailed color illustrations and interpretations of plants listed by family. Each plant is identified by its common and scientific name. Illustrations throughout the book explain the story of each plant, the type of flower, plant similarities and differences, and the general distribution of plant habitats. This volume is an excellent way to learn about plant relationships. For example, some plants can be members of the same family but look completely different from one another. Take this 288-page softcover field guide on your next long trip, and you'll find that you only need batteries for a flashlight, not an iPad.

l "Continuous Container Gardens: Swap in the Plants of the Season to Create Fresh Designs Year-Round," by Sara Begg Townsend and Roanne Robbins (Storey Publishing, 2011, $19.95), will show you how to stay green through the year. The authors use hundreds of high-quality color images to demonstrate their design guidelines and suggest numerous possibilities for plant use. This 271- page softcover book beautifully illustrates numerous ways to grow plants, including flowering trees.

l "Ornamental Grasses: Wolfgang Oehme and the New American Garden," by Stefen Leppert (Frances Lincoln Ltd., 2009, $45), is the ultimate grass book. Ornamental grasses were not used very much in gardens 20 to 30 years ago. In the 1970s, landscape design primarily consisted of installing trees and shrubs as foundation plants against houses, with trees used in lawns. The New American Garden changed that approach to garden design and introduced a new style to landscape architecture and design. Having come from Germany, Oehme was designing on this continent with plants that hadn't been tried here. His intense enjoyment of Beethoven could well have influenced his sweeping design style. This 143-page hardcover, full-color "idea" book has about 225 photographs. It's a valuable reference book to have on your shelf or coffee table.

l "Attracting Native Pollinators: The Xerces Society Guide to Conserving North American Bees and Butterflies and Their Habitat" (Storey Publishing, 2011, $29.95), a 370-page book, has images to illustrate the intricate ways that pollinators communicate, congregate and move. The greater the diversity of pollinators the better yield from your garden. Providing foraging habitat, nesting sites and egg-laying sites for pollinators will boost your crops.

l "The Secret World of Slugs and Snails: Life in the Very Slow Lane," by David George Gordon (Sasquatch Books, 2010, $14.95), is about animals that the author admits he didn't like until he started learning about them. It's apparent from one comment, "To err is human, to slime is sublime," that as his appreciation for these creatures grew, he became fascinated by them. This 150-page softcover reference book includes fun facts such as these: Slugs are simply snails without shells. French diners consume more than 14,000 tons of escargot snails every year. In the mid-1980s, students at the University of California at Santa Cruz chose the native banana slug as the campus mascot. Snails and slugs are hermaphrodites, equipped with male and female reproductive parts and can, under certain conditions, mate with themselves.

l"Fifty Plants That Changed the Course of History," by Bill Laws (Firefly Books, 2010, $29.95), presents interesting information and impressions about plants. For example, trade in tulip bulbs in 17th-century Holland led to the world's first major financial crash. Agaves have supplied raw materials for products ranging from ships' mooring ropes to tequila. And rubber plants in South America were known to indigenous people as weeping wood, and the sticky compound was used to keep feet dry and protect skin from fungal infections. Hardcover, 224 pages.

l "The Small Budget Gardener: All the Dirt on Saving Money in Your Garden," by Maureen Gilmer (Cool Springs Press, 2009, $16.95), will save time and money. Gilmer has broken the 238-page hardcoverbook into 11 useful sections. The book offers suggestions for saving money on energy and water, and it promotes recycling and the reuse of anything that can be handy in the garden.

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