Through the Eyes of a NOC Technician: Air Handler System

Data center cooling is one of the major challenges faced by data center managers because high temperatures and excess heat can severely effect its lifespan and performance. As organizations keep adding blade servers to equip their performance, data centers are demanding more electricity and producing high heat. Sometimes the heat exceedes 30kW – 50 kW/server rack. Increased cooling and electricity demands are adding up to cooling costs and hampering productivity of data centers, and organizations are seriously investing in cooling and heat management solutions for efficient heat and equipment management.

As part of our data center cooling strategy, we have a custom air handler system for cooling that we’ve implemented in our organization. John Sears, one of our NOC (Networks Operations Center) technicians at Lifeline Data Centers, talks about our air handler system in the first edition of our video series, “Through the Eyes of a NOC Technician.”

Want to learn more about data center cooling? Check out some of our other informational articles:

• The Essential Checklist for a Data Center Cooling System Audit – click here to read
• Why Liquid Cooling is the Future of Data Center Cooling – click here to read
• Watch Out for These Common Data Center Cooling Flaws – click here to read

Rich Banta

Managing Member at Lifeline Data Centers

Rich is responsible for Compliance and Certifications, Data Center Operations, Information Technology, and Client Concierge Services. Rich has an extensive background in server and network management, large scale wide-area networks, storage, business continuity, and monitoring. Rich is a former CTO of a major health care system. Rich is hands-on every day in the data centers. He also holds many certifications, including: CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor CRISC – Certified in Risk & Information Systems Management CDCE – Certified Data Center Expert CDCDP – Certified Data Center Design Professional