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2012·14.9 MB·English

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Unique Cabinets,
Clever Features
Rack Solutions Designs Products To Fit Customers’ Specific Needs
Texas-based manufacturer Rack connect to tenants providing transit service Because security is essential in a “meet
Solutions has once again come up with an or Internet access. me room” environment, an entire lock-
innovative rack design that will undoubted- Prior to the popRack, connecting a able cabinet, containing only a few dis-
ly have an influence on the infrastructure of company with a telecom carrier typically tribution panels, devoted to a single cli-
data centers. The company recently released required that an entire rack be dedicated ent, certainly seems less than optimal.
what may be its most auspicious rack to to one customer, and in most instances, Given that data center floor space is
date. The popRack provides a secure, self- this rack was significantly underutilized. indispensable, such inefficiencies are
contained means to connect up to four ten- difficult for data center managers to The company also makes 18U to 42U
ants to their respective telecommunications justify. cabinet enclosures and mounting rails for
carriers. This cutting-edge enclosure pro- popRack designer Whit Wilson says the servers and other equipment from all the
tects the tenants’ infrastructures from unau- idea for the popRack originated the same leading OEMs. No matter what rack-based
thorized access by isolating each tenant’s way most of Rack Solutions’ new products problems you may encounter, it’s likely that
distribution panels and cabling in a single do. “We had a customer who needed a cus- Rack Solutions either has a product that will
compartment. tom solution to mitigate data center inef- help, or its team can design and build one
ficiencies for a large-scale project. So we that will meet your needs and your budget.
Clever Features
developed one.” “I think the most noteworthy advan-
Rack Solutions integrated this unique And like many of the rack manufacturer’s tages that distinguish us from many other
cabinet with a number of clever features, developments, it became a solution that is rack companies are that we generate
the most distinctive of which are the segre- popRack Specifications: now being adopted by others in the data center designs quickly, we produce mass vol-
gated cable channels (located in front and space. “It’s just one of those things that users umes right here in our U.S. factory, and
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back) within each compartment that pre- don’t realize they need until they see how well we ship on time,” says Feeney. “We can
vent access from any place else within the (cid:114)(cid:1) (cid:37)(cid:74)(cid:78)(cid:70)(cid:79)(cid:84)(cid:74)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:84)(cid:27)(cid:1)(cid:25)(cid:26)(cid:1)(cid:89)(cid:1)(cid:20)(cid:17)(cid:1)(cid:89)(cid:1)(cid:20)(cid:23)(cid:1)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:68)(cid:73)(cid:70)(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:9)(cid:41)(cid:89)(cid:56)(cid:89)(cid:37)(cid:10) it’s working for someone else. Then naturally, handle lots of requests that others can’t
cabinet. The front channel’s function is to they want it, too,” Wilson says. or that wouldn’t make financial sense for
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isolate the cables that connect the tenant to them to even consider. We have the luxu-
Other Rack Specialties
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channel’s purpose is to isolate the cables Rack Solutions has become most widely from design to delivery.”
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that connect to the tenant’s network. known for its four-post, open-frame racks Rack Solutions also manufactures rails,
This cabinet was created specifically (cid:114)(cid:1) (cid:37)(cid:86)(cid:83)(cid:66)(cid:67)(cid:77)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:81)(cid:80)(cid:88)(cid:69)(cid:70)(cid:83)(cid:1)(cid:68)(cid:80)(cid:66)(cid:85)(cid:1)(cid:71)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:74)(cid:84)(cid:73)(cid:1)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:1)(cid:71)(cid:83)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:85)(cid:1)(cid:70)(cid:89)(cid:85)(cid:70)(cid:83)(cid:74)(cid:80)(cid:83) available in heights from 24U to 58U. “The shelves, KVMs, two-post conversion prod-
for use in Point of Presence (POP) rooms. (cid:114)(cid:1) (cid:49)(cid:77)(cid:70)(cid:89)(cid:74)(cid:14)(cid:72)(cid:77)(cid:66)(cid:84)(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:88)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:69)(cid:80)(cid:88)(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:1)(cid:70)(cid:66)(cid:68)(cid:73)(cid:1)(cid:68)(cid:80)(cid:78)(cid:81)(cid:66)(cid:83)(cid:85)(cid:78)(cid:70)(cid:79)(cid:85) 58U is ideal for high-density deployments, ucts, and other items designed to resolve
These telecom connection areas, also including cloud and virtualization environ- issues and help companies overcome rack-
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known as “meet me rooms” (MMRs) are ments,” says Dennis Feeney, vice president mounting obstacles. P
prevalent in colocation centers, allowing (cid:114)(cid:1) (cid:52)(cid:73)(cid:74)(cid:81)(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:71)(cid:86)(cid:77)(cid:77)(cid:90)(cid:1)(cid:66)(cid:84)(cid:84)(cid:70)(cid:78)(cid:67)(cid:77)(cid:70)(cid:69) of Rack Solutions. These open frame racks
companies such as AT&T, Sprint, Level 3, are very competitively priced, starting at Contact:
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Tech Sector Execs Former Hynix Plant NTT Acquires 85%
Optimistic About The Might Become Data Center Of UK Data Center Service Provider
Coming Year
According to a report in the Oregon NTT Communications, a global company
KPMG has released its annual “Technology newspaper The Register-Guard, Seattle- headquartered in Tokyo, continued its growth
Industry Business Outlook” report based on a based Real Property Investors has agreed by acquiring an 85% stake in UK-based data
survey of 122 tech industry executives. This year, to buy the former Hynix plant in Eugene, a center service provider Gyron. Offering colo-
respondents were more optimistic than last year 1.2-million-square-foot facility situated on cation, managed services, and related data
about their companies’ potential revenues and 200 acres of property. Along with two other center solutions, Gyron currently operates a
employment growth for the following year. Of Seattle-based firms, Real Property Investors 3-megawatt data center outside of London
those surveyed, 57% expected their companies has a stated goal of acquiring properties to and is building two more. “Gyron’s data
would employ more people next year (compared transform them into operational data centers, centers will strengthen the NTT Com group’s
to 49% in 2011), and 67% anticipate their com- but the firm has not commented specifically cloud-based one-stop ICT [information and
panies’ revenues to be “moderately higher” next on the Hynix plant purchase. Hynix had run communications technology] solutions in the
year (compared to 60% in 2011). Respondents the Eugene plant for about 10 years and UK,” said NTT’s press release, “and enable
don’t expect dramatic revenue growth, however, employed roughly 1,000 employees the NTT Com group to further accelerate
as 10% anticipate “significantly higher” revenue and 300 contractors when it closed the its offering of increasingly diverse global
next year (compared to 17% in 2011). plant in 2008. cloud services.”
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This information provides a quick glimpse of current and historical stock prices and trends for
STOCKS
15 major companies in the technology market.
% change from
Company Symbol Year Ago May 24 $ June 7 $
previous issue
AMD AMD $7.64 $6.01 $5.76 ▼ 4.16%
Apple AAPL $331.49 $566.46 $571.72 ▲ 0.93%
CA Technologies CA $21.98 $25.14 $25.53 ▲ 1.55%
Cisco Systems CSCO $15.31 $16.48 $16.58 ▲ 0.61%
Dell DELL $15.67 $12.38 $12.13 ▼ 2.02%
Facebook FB N/A $33.03 $26.31 ▼ 20.35%
Google GOOG $516.73 $601.60 $578.23 ▼ 3.88%
HP HPQ $35.46 $21.53 $22.06 ▲ 2.46%
IBM IBM $164.84 $195.07 $194.44 ▼ 0.32%
Intel INTC $21.76 $25.59 $25.94 ▲ 1.37%
LinkedIn LNKD $72.01 $96.50 $94.13 ▼ 2.46%
Microsoft MSFT $23.96 $28.94 $29.23 ▲ 1.00%
Oracle ORCL $31.63 $26.04 $27.18 ▲ 4.38%
Red Hat Software RHT $42.49 $52.66 $54.63 ▲ 3.74%
Symantec SYMC $18.85 $14.88 $14.47 ▼ 2.76%
NOTE: This information is meant for reference only and should not be used as a basis for buy/sell decisions.
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ITOM Software Market Shows Continued Growth Researchers Foresee
New Cloud Model For Resources
According to the latest research from Gartner about the ITOM (IT operations management) software
market, the top-earning vendors have shown continued growth in ITOM for two consecutive years. This In addition to infrastructure-, software-, plat-
chart shows each vendor’s percentage of the market share as well as 2010-2011 growth in parenthesis. form-, and other “as-a-service” models for
delivering some kind of cloud computing, a new
model dubbed RaaS (resource as a service) will
soon start to gain in popularity, giving custom-
ers access to specific computing resources,
IBM
such as CPU, memory, and I/O resources, for
17.8%
(4.2%)
as little as seconds at a time. That’s according
Others to researchers Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda, Muli
46.5% Ben-Yehuda, Assaf Schuster, and Dan Tsafrir
(10.7%)
of the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology,
who recently presented a paper on the topic.
The concept extends from IaaS with the idea
that customers will increasingly require specific
individual resources on an as-needed basis.
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Microsoft Sets A Date
CA Technologies
For Carbon Neutrality
12.3%
(9.4%)
Microsoft has announced that it will be carbon
neutral starting on July 1, which marks the
HP
beginning of the company’s 2013 fiscal year.
6.5%
(3.8%)
BMC Software
Microsoft Microsoft will establish a price on carbon and
6.9% 10%(8.2%) use a charge-back model both as a method
(11.2%)
of ensuring that carbon offsets are used and
as an incentive to reduce carbon emissions in
general. COO Kevin Turner wrote in a blog post
that Microsoft will be carbon neutral in all “direct
operations including data centers, software
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IT Concerns Over BYOD development labs, air travel, and office build-
ings.” Turner cited a “smarter buildings pilot” on
For its “Rethink The Risk” report, BT surveyed more than 2,000 IT decision-makers around the world and
the Redmond campus as one of many steps
identified the top concerns related to the current BYOD (bring your own device) trend, whereby employees
toward greater energy efficiency.
are permitted to use their own, often consumer-oriented devices in the workplace. What follows are the
percentages of respondents who indicated certain threats as “challenging” or “very challenging.”
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Web Usage Growing Fast
On Tablets
68%
According to the most recent Adobe Digital
Cybersecurity
Index report from Adobe Systems, tablet users
are browsing the Web in big numbers. Given
68%
the larger screen size of tablets relative to
Preventing data leaked by employees
smartphones, it makes sense that users would
access the Web more frequently on tablets than
61 on smartphones, but the figures separating Web
% Increasing use of personally owned devices
usage on the two devices is striking. According
and social media sites
to the report, Web usage on tablets grew 10
times faster in the first two years after market
57% Preventing or fixing weaknesses within introduction than it did on smartphones. In terms
of ongoing acceleration, the report claims
business systems
that tablet Web usage grew 300% last
year and will account for 10% of
57%
total Web traffic in 2014.
Security in supply chain systems
53%
Industrial or state-sponsored
espionage
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Epicor To Expand visibility solutions. In a press release, Google Wins Copyright Round
Into New Zealand-Australia Market Jay Mastaj, senior VP and GM for EMC’s In France
Infrastructure Management Group, said that
Epicor, an ERP (enterprise resource planning) A French court dismissed a claim of copy-
“insight into every aspect of IT performance
solutions company based in Dublin, Calif., right infringement brought by French televi-
and the ability to manage it without growing
has entered into an agreement to acquire sion broadcaster TF1 against Google over its
staff and with increasing granularity, are no lon-
the operating assets of YouTube ser-
ger optional,” and Watch4net will help enhance
New Zealand-based vice. TF1 had
EMC’s products in this area.
COGITA, also an asserted that
ERP company, for the presence
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an undisclosed Oracle Buys Social Marketing of its videos on
sum. “With the Platform Company Virtue YouTube con-
acquisition, our stituted copy-
Redwood Shores, Calif.,-based Oracle has
customers right infringe-
entered into an agreement to acquire Virtue.
will now ment, but the
Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Atlanta,
have direct French court
Virtue developed its SRM (Social Relationship
access to decided that YouTube is a hosting service and
Management) platform to help organizations use
increased resources, that it is not responsible for what its customers
social media outlets strategically, publish content
not only in Australia and New post as long as YouTube provides a system
for social marketing purposes, and monitor the
Zealand, but wherever they do busi- for removing content that is reported to be
success and efficiency of social marketing cam-
ness,” said Becky Gagas, formerly COGITA copyrighted. Google itself has posted no TF1
paigns. Virtue’s platform, “coupled with Oracle’s
director of operations and now Epicor’s new videos on YouTube, although TF1 has through
leading sales, service, and commerce products
director of New Zealand operations, in a state- YouTube’s Content ID system.
offers a complete social experience solution to our
ment. COGITA’s operations will remain intact as
customers,” said Thomas Kurian, executive vice
an addition to Epicor. ❙
president, Oracle Development, in a statement. Major Growth Expected
Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. In Mobile Payment Tech
❙
Google Acquires Mobile
Researchers with Berg Insight have pointed
Productivity Company Quickoffice ❙
Study Flags Employee Use out the enormous growth in 2011 of NFC
London-based productivity app developer Of File-Sharing Platforms (Near Field Technology) POS terminals as
Quickoffice recently announced it had been a strong indicator that NFC-based mobile
In addition to providing some new insights
acquired by Mountain View, Calif.,-based payment services are preparing to go main-
into the trend toward consumerization of the
Google for an undisclosed sum. Google stream. NFC is a short-range wireless tech-
workplace (for example, that 77% of informa-
often absorbs or rebrands the companies it nology that has so far been closely tied with
tion workers use personal devices for work
acquires, but for now, according to Google’s mobile payment systems. According to Berg
purposes), a recent SkyDox survey shed some
official blog post on the matter, Google plans Insight, NFC-ready POS terminal shipments
light on a particularly troubling trend: employee
to support Quickoffice’s “strong base of doubled to about 2.5 million units internation-
use of free file-sharing platforms to store and
users” while it works on “an even more seam- ally last year. The research firm forecasts that
share company documents. Broken down by
less, intuitive, and integrated experience.” 43.4 million units will ship in 2017, and that in
sector, the survey found the highest number
At press time, only the Quickoffice Pro HD 2017 NFC capabilities will be found in 86% of
of file-sharing platform users among those in
app remained available via online stores; the POS terminals in North America.
professional services (87%), finance (84%),
company’s other apps had been removed.
and healthcare (57%). Based on job function,
Quickoffice works with multiple desktop office ❙
however, the survey found the lowest number of Text Messaging To Retain
suite file types for viewing, editing, creating,
users among those doing financial work (39%) Its Popularity Despite Apps
and syncing files on mobile devices.
and the highest among those with sales (81%)
Need to message someone? There isn’t just
and legal (77%) functions.
❙ an app for that, there are loads of apps for
EMC Buys IT Performance
that. However, most people are opting to
Management Company
use SMS (short message service, aka text
Watch4net
messaging) instead of turning to an app.
Less than a month after acquiring Further, according to new research from
cloud services company Syncplicity, Informa Telecoms & Media, SMS is likely
Hopkinton, Mass.,-based EMC to remain more popular than messag-
announced it had also acquired another ing apps for the next five years. Informa
cloud-related company: Watch4net forecasts that there will be 9.4 trillion SMS
Solutions. Headquartered in Montreal, messages sent in 2016 compared to the 5.9
Watch4net offers IT performance manage- trillion that were sent in 2011. Informa says
ment services for both data center and OTT (over-the-top) messaging such as IP
cloud-based infrastructures, as well as messaging apps will grow dramatically, too,
multiple network performance but will not surpass SMS.
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F E AT U R E D P R O D U C T
A Whole New Level Of Storage
Aberdeen’s Petarack Offers More Than A Full Petabyte Of Fast, Flexible & Secure Storage
For most SMBs and enterpris- eight JBODs, each with 45 SAS drives with Fibre cards and you wouldn’t be able
Aberdeen Petarack
es, there is an ever-changing target for holding 3TB of storage apiece. With a to reach its full potential,” Levitas says.
total storage capacity. It used to be that total of 360 drives, the Petarack provides
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with technology evolving faster than eficial features of the product is how much Aberdeen designed the Petarack to be
ever before, there is always room for data center room it saves, because all of used in a variety of industries and envi-
The Petarack is a high-capacity storage solu-
additional storage. Aberdeen saw this this storage is available in a single 42U ronments. But according to Levitas, vir-
tion that supports a petabyte or more of stor-
need for almost unlimited storage and rack. This gives you enough space in your tualization and cloud computing are two
age and provides high-speed performance
is attempting to fulfill it with its new data center to hold multiple Petarack con- areas where the Petarack can shine based
for even the most demanding data centers.
Petarack storage solution, complete with figurations or to simply fit it in to your on sheer capacity. Because Aberdeen’s
The Petarack is also flexible enough to adapt
a total capacity of 1,080TB, or 1 pet- existing server and storage environment. storage solution is scalable, it can be
to and grow alongside your company to fulfill
abyte. But the company knew it couldn’t When designing the Petarack, Aberdeen used to support cloud computing envi-
all future storage needs.
hastily design its product and ship it not only set out to reach the highest stor- ronments of different sizes and grow
out to market before it was ready, so it age capacity, but also some of the highest depending on the current needs of the
took ample time to find the perfect balance network and transfer speeds possible for company. Instead of investing in mul- important feature of the Petarack is its
of storage and data protection features. a storage solution. “Petarack can act as a tiple racks and storage solutions, you flexibility. In addition to its stan-
“Putting a petabyte together and actually Ferrari or it can pull loads like a big rig, can simply add more storage or Ethernet dard configuration of 360 drives and
making it work was a challenge,” says Niso depending on your configuration,” Levitas cards to increase and improve cloud per- 1,080TB of storage, there is even
Levitas, manager of research and develop- says. “It is configured with Intel® Xeon® formance. With virtualization, a petabyte room in the rack to add an addition-
ment at Aberdeen (www.aberdeeninc.com). Processors, can be configured with up to of storage can be used to serve hundreds al 45 drives for an extra 135TB with a
“To my knowledge, no regular OS can rec- 192GB of memory and utilize most of it as of virtual desktops, if it is set up and ninth JBOD. And if you choose to stick
ognize and serve that amount of storage with the original configuration, you
securely and no hardware RAID controller have plenty of extra space for Ethernet
can combine more than 32 drives as a single networking cards or host bus adapt-
array. We started with a no-limit ZFS file ers to improve speed and performance.
system, which was the only one that could Ultimately, the Petarack is designed
protect all this data and present it outside to fulfill your current needs but is also flex-
the box at an incredible speed. It took eight ible enough to grow with your company.
months and a team of engineers to deliver a “You can start with terabytes of stor-
product we could be proud of.” age and then easily grow it to petabytes,”
Levitas says. “You can add cards to
Customers Inspiring Innovation
increase the connectivity and bandwidth,
At Aberdeen, innovation always starts while only incurring the costs of the cards
with the needs of the customer, so the com- themselves. You can add another Petarack
pany set out to find the most important fea- and replicate it onsite or offsite. You won’t
tures customers were looking for and com- hit capacity limitations, you have unlimited
bine them into one solution. “Our customers snapshots, and you can grow the Petarack
loved our Linux NAS and Windows NAS to your liking. It’s a no-limits system.” P
products but demanded more sophisticated
shared or block-level storage with enterprise
Data Protection
features, such as unlimited snapshots and
volume mirroring,” Levitas says. “They
& Downtime
wanted to be able to share more than 64TB
of storage, which was the single array limit, Prevention
as well as have file system flexibility, server
houses, video houses, and shared storage If you’re storing up to a petabyte of data
with native file systems.” cache, and it can be configured with enter- configured correctly, Levitas says. on one system, you’ll want to ensure that
Aberdeen understood the frustration prise-level SSDs as a second layer of cache Levitas also points out that the Petarack data is thoroughly protected. That why
of customers that needed high-capacity for demanding NFS.” And Levitas says that is perfect for “video applications and broad- the Petarack “uses the incredible ZFS
storage solutions that wouldn’t skimp on Aberdeen is working on accommodating up cast companies with Mac and Windows file system with copy-on-write technolo-
speed but also wouldn’t break a business to a terabyte of memory in the future. editing workstations” as well as for high- gy and an end-to-end checksum method
budget. Through extensive research and The Petarack comes preconfigured performance data clusters with “powerful to avoid silent data corruption,” accord-
development, the company was able to with 10 Gigabit Ethernet, which can be CPUs and massive amounts of memory ing to Niso Levitas, manager of research
give customers everything they wanted, directly connected to backbone network configurations.” These uses are only the tip and development at Aberdeen.On the
including more than a full petabyte of switches. Companies can also choose to of the iceberg, because almost any company hardware side of things, Aberdeen has
storage, for only $495,000. add more 10GbE cards or InfiniBand for that is searching for an ultra-high-capacity taken measures to help companies avoid
HPC, according to Levitas. If you prefer storage can take advantage of the Petarack. downtime and make sure that their mas-
High-Capacity Storage &
Fibre connections, you can install Fibre sive amount of data is always available
High-Speed Performance Flexibility For The Future
Channel adapters and use the Petarack to them. “The Petarack has redundant
With the Petarack, it all starts with for RAW Fibre SAN storage. Even then, The Petarack is packed with capacity head units so that a complete head unit
capacity. To reach the large capacity goal there is still room for more performance. and prepared for even the most demand- or other component failure will not affect
of 1PB, Aberdeen’s solution comprises “You could fill all the slots in a Petarack ing storage needs, but perhaps the most productivity,” Levitas says.
“Putting a petabyte together and actually making it work was
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The Cruxial Cooler™ series of A/C Rackmount server The MovinCool Office Pro 60 and 63 deliver up to 60,000 Portable air conditioners from AmeriCool are a great solution
racks have been preventing IT hot spots and contami- BTU/hr of cooling capacity. These portable air condition- for most heat related applications. Our portable units can
nation from dirty environments for over 8 years. Built to ers are designed to manage temperatures for computer handle everything from mission critical to harsh industrial
NEMA 12 standards, these racks work equally well in a networks, communications equipment, and office electron- environments. These units can also be used to dehumidify
data center, warehouse, manufacturing area or any envi-
ics. The self-contained Office Pro 60 and 63 are easy to and are very effective in drying out water damaged buildings.
ronment where the ambient temperature is too warm to
install—just position the wheeled unit, plug it in, and turn
sustain the heat generated by hot IT equipment.
it on. (cid:114)(cid:1) Highest capacity at 115V (16,800 BTU/hr)
(cid:114)(cid:1) 4,000 BTU to 20,000 BTU models (cid:114)(cid:1) Removable nozzles with integrated grill
(cid:114)(cid:1) Sidemount or Rackmount, depending on the best con- (cid:114)(cid:1) Programmable digital controller enables weekend (cid:114)(cid:1) 12” flange included
figuration and aesthetics required and after-hours cooling (cid:114)(cid:1) Operating range: 64-104 deg
(cid:114)(cid:1) Each unit includes external LED temperature monitor (cid:114)(cid:1) Office Pro 60 operates on a 220V power source; (cid:114)(cid:1) Spot cool and room cool modes available
with (2) sensor leads built into the front door Office Pro 63 uses 460V
(cid:114)(cid:1) 36” and 42”d cabinets
(cid:114)(cid:1) Provides cooling in the low 60s to maximize the life Best For: AmeriCool portable air conditioners have many
(cid:114)(cid:1) 42U, 45U, 48U, or custom as needed
span of heat-sensitive electronics commercial and industrial applications including; server
(cid:114)(cid:1) Ship next day on some configurations
(cid:114)(cid:1) Condensation pump included for uninterrupted operation rooms, hospitals, laboratories, process cooling, multi
(cid:114)(cid:1) Made in the USA
(cid:114)(cid:1) UL Listed for safe operation workstation cooling, special events and much more.
Best For: Areas where room temperature is warm or when
AC is occasionally turned off. Dirty or warehouse envi- Best For: Large office spaces and computer rooms filled Price:$3,595
ronments requiring NEMA 12 dust, water, debris, and lint with heat-sensitive electronics.
equipment protection.
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Price:$9,995 (Office Pro 60); $12,495 (Office Pro 63)
Price: Full size 42U units start at $4,918
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