Monitoring temperature and humidity during a preventative maintenance audit is crucial to ensuring the health and longevity of your equipment. Without proper temperature and humidity control, your data center is at risk of equipment failure, downtime, and potential loss of revenue. Here are some tips on how to monitor temperature and humidity during a preventative maintenance audit.

Preventative maintenance is the key to ensuring that the data center operates at optimal levels, reduces downtime, and avoids costly repairs. But what do you include in a good PM routine? This article covers a high level view of how to conduct a good PM check.

One of the critical factors that contribute to the reliability of a data center is its maintenance. Preventative maintenance is the key to ensuring that the data center operates at optimal levels, reduces downtime, and avoids costly repairs. This article explores what exactly is preventative maintenance and what are the benefits.

Overcooling is a common issue in data centers, which can lead to unnecessary energy consumption and higher costs. This checklist can help you identify if your data center is over-cooled and provides solutions to avoid overcooling.

Are you aware that overcooling your data center can have negative consequences on both reliability and availability? In this article, we'll break down why keeping your data center temperature within Ashrae limits is crucial, and how Purkay Labs' thermal audits can help you optimize your cooling and save money on electricity.

Overcooling is a common issue in data centers that often goes unnoticed. It can waste energy, increase operating costs, and decrease the lifespan of your equipment. By using a tool, like the AUDIT-BUDDY and the Static Heat Map, you can identify areas of overcooling and adjust your cooling strategy to optimize energy efficiency and equipment performance. The data will help you to adjust your cooling strategy to save energy, reduce operating costs, and extend the lifespan of your equipment.

By applying the Six Sigma DMAIC process & the AUDIT-BUDDY system, data center operators can systematically improve their cooling systems and achieve significant improvements in efficiency and reliability

Monitoring the environment of a network closet is essential for ensuring the proper functioning and longevity of the equipment housed within it. To do this, it's important to regularly check the temperature, humidity, and airflow within the closet using the AUDIT-BUDDY system.

The demand for storage and processing of digital information has never been greater. Yet, Data Center managers are being challenged to “do more with less.” This article covers how to create a simple cooling optimization strategy.

While evaporative humidification systems are more energy efficient than legacy steam humidification, how do you know that the humidification is dispersed evenly across the white space?

You need to monitor your data center environment to ensure the reliable operation of your IT equipment. However, there are thousands of environmental monitors on the market. How do you pick the right one? This article covers the two types of environmental monitors - permanent and temporary — and there pros and cons.

As the price of gas continues to rise across the globe, operators are searching for new methods, technologies and strategies to save on electricity costs. One simple solution is to use baseline your existing environment to identify simple airflow inefficiencies. With AUDIT-BUDDY, it’s simple to collect data and take action.

Server delta-T is a powerful indicator of your facility’s cooling performance, and yet it is rarely monitored. This article explores how measuring the server delta-T can determine how much cooling is required for the current IT Load, and how much is being wasted due to bypass and recirculation airflow.

Regardless whether you have a new construction or legacy facility, regular thermal audits should be a part of your standard preventative maintenance routine.