Could be good option as we move on towards greening the mother earth

Rgds,

Pradeep

Thanks for the comment. As the Iceotope boxes are made from commodity parts they are a similar price to other blade systems. When looked at end to end, the capital costs will be lower. There is no need for CRAC units or refrigeration plant at all.

In an enterprise environment folks don’t do memory upgrades. Replacement cycles are 18 – 36 months as more advanced and efficient hardware is released. The key thing about the Iceotope solution is that blades can be swapped without changing the rack out.

Steve

I’ll tell that to a few sysadmins that I know. They will get a chuckle out of that.

You are obviously an operations guy, practical and to the point. Simple answer is yes, every critical component is backed up. Nx2 approach. Similar approach to fans and power supplies. SNMP traps are issued if components fail.

The guys who pulled this together are Data Centre professionals and have the scars.

Thanks

Steve

I know that you have run some of the biggest IT shops in the planet and it is incredible that a UK company has been able to innovate and deliver this game changing technology.

Steve

The Hot Aisle was able to scoop the news and hit the press early with this amazing new technology. The website is up, Iceotope are well funded and executing on a plan to change blade server packaging forever. The press launch has been amazing and the Internet is buzzing with these new ideas.

Believe Iceotope will be in touch to get help.

Steve

You need to be really proud of what your team have achieved here. Smart, innovative technology that delivers a joined up solution that matters.

Well done.

Steve

Given the high density design and heat generated it would not take long for the motherboards, drives, etc to overheat if the primary cooling fails.

The IP is NOT in the immersion, it is in the smarts around integrating it into a data centre. We have seen lots of kitchen experiments and game player hardware but this is the first and best technology that just gets the end to end solution. How do you make something that can be integrated into a data centre – I love it fantastic smart well though out technology.

Steve

Interesting comment. High quality heat is a genuinely important feature and Iceotope can deliver water hot enough to shower in or run under the floor as a heater. When we get to liquid channels embedded in the silicon then we might actually be able to look at leveraging this to make a negative PUE. Watch this space.

Steve

I agree. Even my TV equipment makes too much noise because it generates heat and we need to dump it. Liquid cooling is silent, reliable and inevitable – watch the consumer space. We will see high end kit running liquid first and then it will become table stakes.

Steve

Iceotope are a server packaging company, so yes the intellectual property is indeed in the plumbing – extremely smart and joined up plumbing for sure. Game changing plumbing.

Steve

I used to run BT’s IT with 70,000 servers. In my entire career I have NEVER upgraded a server. I doesn’t happen. Google does great with air cooled solutions, and some refrigeration when they need it. They also are working out how to do follow the moon to keep their data centres cool. Unfortunately in the real world that isn’t practical. Liquid cooling is inevitable, wake up and smell the coffee pal

Steve

Don’t you mean “the plumbing”?

NEBS is apparently on the radar along with the many other compliance issues the firm needs to sort out.

Steve

Component accessability is not an issue. No one EVER upgrades a server in an Enterprise Data Centre. No one ever attempts a fix in situ, not ever. In fact having these systems encapsulated protects them from thermal and mechanical shock making them more reliable.

Cooled front doors are a good thing but they tend to interfere with the CRAC units in the room and still depend on air to move the heat for the last few feet or inches.

Encapsulating equipment in dielectric fluid is absolutely not new technology. Lots of folks do it because it is smart and enables lots of heat to be removed efficiently. Iceotope have patented much of the associated technologies that make a liquid cooled blade system viable in a real data centre.

The real intelectual property is the nature of the end-to-end cooling process that starts at the capsule and ends at the free cooler.

Believe me this is game changing stuff

Steve

Hendrik

For example a liquid cooled front door on the rack itself is a better way to move the cooling closer to the heat etc…..

Congrats on getting VC funding for this but you ain’t going to sell any and the idea is not patentable as people have been doing this with oil for decades – first match I came across: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/strip-fans,1203-11.html

The firm is well funded and will now progress onto the next stage – launch and customer acquisition. Iceotope have had a huge response from the market and it is clear that the time is right for liquid cooling. (We have been saying that here on the hot aisle for a long while – don’t forget we introduced data centre curtains).

Iceotope tell me that they are actively looking for customers now.

Steve

Thanks for your comment. I am told that the products are priced competitively and that the costs of encapsulation are sensible and comparible to a server chassis. The key thing is these machines do not need refrigeration or CRAC units. Overall the capital costs will be staggeringly lower.

Equally the operational costs will be significantly lower even in a highly efficient data centre we will see electricity costs dropping 50 or 60%. In sites that have no cooling capacity left these will be a Godsend.

Steve

As the UK’s not-for-profit cleantech support resource, we’d be happy to offer assistance if required. Even to the Sheffield area!

Thanks for the great promo – we’re very excited and can’t wait to hear and build on the comments from both The Hot Aisle and SC 09.

Iceotope have filed and had granted a number of patents both in the UK and US. The end-to-end design is brilliant and innovative. It makes the Data Centre obsolete – no need for all of the raised floors, fans, refrigeration and other cooling plant. Energy efficiency is stunning. It is totally silent – no fans screaming at high airflow rates.

The design fits right between IBM’s innovative cold plate technology and the new liquid channel designs for high power chips. Both of these approaches are expensive to implement and manufacture. The Iceotope solution is simple and clean. Cheap to manufacture and totally reliable.

Steve