“EEC partnered with IFAW from the start of the project to design build and deliver a high-performance, energy-efficient, data center. The EEC team was professional, responsive and clearly dedicated to the success of the project."
Phyllis Bayer
Director of IT Operations - IFAW
"Being the facilities manager and in charge of a server room that covers the company world wide; it is essential that my backup power be prepared to cover our needs in case there is a power loss. I have used Electronic Environments for several years and they have always been there when we needed them -- day or night -- I know I can count on a timely response and quick repair. I would recommend Electronic Environments to anybody who has a UPS backup system or is looking to add one."
Mark Carroll
Facility Manager -
Dialogic Inc.
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 In looking at managing the energy budget for the entire data center, users need to factor in the energy for cooling systems as well as the power for the equipment. Over the past two years, as energy prices have soared and servers have gotten denser and hotter, data center power and cooling has become a critical issue.
Data centers perform computing functions vital to the U.S. economy, yet they require large amounts of energy to operate. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, in 2006, U.S. data centers used about 61 billion kWh—roughly 1.5% of all retail U.S. electricity sales. To support the growing demand for processing power throughout the nation, data centers are using ever more compact and energy-intensive servers—even as the total number and size of data centers continues to increase. This is creating a serious burden on the U.S. electric grid.
 As mentioned in our “Cooling Your Data Center and Saving Energy” article, data centers require large amounts of energy to operate and the push now is to reduce the use of energy in data centers — green initiatives. Additional encouragement is coming from utilities throughout the United States in the form of energy efficiency rebates and incentives.
Typically, energy efficiency programs focus on new data center construction, retrofitting the current environment, or optimization of the equipment in the data center. Recently Electronic Environments installed
13 Ultrasonic Humidifiers at a customer site - the customer worked with their local utility and is receiving $47,000 from the utility in the form of a rebate based on the energy savings they will receive from the ultrasonic humidifiers. |
They encourage everything from server consolidation projects to energy efficiency “refreshes,” such as installing more efficient servers and cooling technology.
 Preventive maintenance is one of the key approaches to protecting a facility through detection of potential points of failure before the deficiency initiates a system-wide malfunction, this is key for mission critical facilities. What if theoutput of yourUPSor DC power system was interrupted for even a few seconds? This would cause a huge disruption in your critical load, which in turn could cost your business serious downtime and money.
Neglecting to maintain equipment or implementing improper maintenance procedures are two of the biggest reasons why mission critical equipment fails. Two of the heaviest hitters in the data center — power and cooling equipment — require regular maintenance to ensure that power, temperature, or humidity fluctuations do not cost a company thousands, if not millions, of dollars. According to Ken Nason, Power Technician at Electronic Environments, "90-95% of failures that I see in the field are caused by batteries, capacitors and fans that have not been properly maintained".
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Adding a location in the New York City area expands Electronic Environment’s ability to offer its portfolio of services to its broad base of local customers and prospects that require the best available infrastructure solutions for their critical facilities.
See our press release for more information:
http://www.eecnet.com/new_york_city_location.htm
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