Comparing Containment Systems for Data Center Airflow Management
David Knapp, CPI Product Marketing Manager. Featured in January/February 2018 edition of ICT Today Magazine.
In the past decade, many companies have become aware of the advantages of data center airflow management practices that include containment systems. It is also now well understood that as the average heat load per cabinet rises, simply arranging cabinets in a traditional open hot aisle/cold aisle configuration is not an effective approach. This article examines and compares three data center containment systems and demonstrates that there are important differences that distinguish one system over the others.