A crash course in data center CRAC units

A guided tour of how one facility's CRAC units work.

Aug 16th, 2012
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In a recent Youtube video, Kevin Hazard of SoftLayer, a developer of cloud computing infrastructure, provides a guided tour of how the company's data center CRAC units work. The tour follows Kevin into Pod 1 of SoftLayer's DAL05 facility. Since it is "truck day", the pod is quite busy, and an area that is soon to be filled with new servers is found.

Watch the video here.

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