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Comment on Gyron’s Centro facility shortlisted for Datacenter Leaders’ Awards 2009 by Robin Balen - Gyron

Robin Balen - Gyron — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:02:59 +0000

Hey Mark

Our philosophy has always been that rather than cooling the hosting suite, what we really want to do is extract the heat from the air that the servers warm up. Hot aisle containment allows us to feed the hot air directly in to our CRAC units, which is then cooled and returned to the room at neutral temperatures.

We believe that this offers several advantages over forcing cold air in to the front of the servers and using the entire room as a hot air plenum. Two big ones are we can run the fans on our CRAC units much slower as there is no pressurization occurring, and also that the hosting environment is a lot more pleasant to work in (to get good efficiencies you want to get the hot air to ~30C)!

We’re always happy to show potential customers around — just drop an email to sales@gyron.net!

Cheers

Robin

Comment on Gyron’s Centro facility shortlisted for Datacenter Leaders’ Awards 2009 by Mark Pacey

Mark Pacey — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:31:49 +0000

Hey Robin,

Interesting to see you use Hot aisle containment, rather than cold. Was there any particular reason for that ? ( Can’t see any cold aisle vents in the floor, is that why ?? ). Would be great to come and have a nosey round your site sometime, if that’s at all possible ?? ( There may be a point next year – 2011 – that we have to look at housing some of our kit elsewhere ).

Mark.

Comment on Centro update – Final air conditioning works by Air Conditioning Hire

Air Conditioning Hire — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:13:17 +0000

Great photos, the new final systems looks brilliant…

Comment on Centro Cooling efficiency by sakura hasegawa

sakura hasegawa — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:55:49 +0000

Thanks for posting this graph. It’s been quite helpful for those, such as I, who plan on buying chillers. Thanks for posting this.

Comment on Centro update – Switchgear Room by Robin Balen - Gyron

Robin Balen - Gyron — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:03:34 +0000

Hi there,

We didn’t find any disadvantages of using raised floor for our switchgear…

Robin

Comment on Centro update – Switchgear Room by Abdul Haseeb

Abdul Haseeb — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:09:54 +0000

Is it possible to use raised floor for low voltage MCC and switchgear

what are the dis advantages if there is any ?

Comment on Centro update – Final air conditioning works by Plumbing Provo

Plumbing Provo — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:14:56 +0000

Looks nice. I bet that air conditioning system would work like a charm.

Comment on Press release: Centro datacentre facility earns UK Police flagship ‘Secured by Design’ certification by Paul Ridge

Paul Ridge — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:10:12 +0000

Congratulations to all the staff at Gyron, a job well done!

Comment on Centro Cooling efficiency by Robin Balen - Gyron

Robin Balen - Gyron — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:57:10 +0000

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your comment.

As we provide wholesale colocation in our Centro datacentre facility, our customers tend to prefer that we don’t install any equipment within the rack enclosures themselves so they can make the most of the rack space. Instead, we monitor temperature and humidity within the suite itself, and our smart PDUs monitor the power usage on every commando outlet which feeds power to the racks.

We’re not hiring right now, but we’re always expanding so we’ll keep your CV on file.

Hope that helps!

Robin

Comment on Mini tour of Centro datacentre by Chris

Chris — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:34:10 +0000

The new facility looks very smart, I’ve only heard good things about Gyron so well done chaps!