Calgary – CoolIT Systems, a provider of liquid cooling solutions for data centers and HPC, announced an expansion of its product portfolio to include what the company said is the industry’s first direct liquid cooling (DLC)-enabled rear door heat exchanger (RDHx). This announcement follows the recent news of KKR’s acquisition of CoolIT. In today’s rapidly […]
CoolIT Systems Introduces Direct Liquid Cooling-Enabled Rear Door Heat Exchanger
OLCF’s Paul Abston Named Data Center Manager of the Year
Paul Abston, leader of the HPC Infrastructure Operations Group of the National Center for Computational Sciences and manager of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s data center, has been named Data Center Manager of the Year for 2023. The award, sponsored by Data Center World, the global conference for data center facilities and IT professionals, recognizes […]
KKR to Acquire CoolIT Systems
CALGARY, Alberta & NEW YORK– KKR investment firm and CoolIT Systems, a provider of scalable liquid cooling solutions for demanding computing environments, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement under which KKR will acquire CoolIT. The investment is intended to support the company’s ability to scale and serve its global customers across the data […]
Trane Technologies Executive Holly Paeper Joins LiquidStack’s Board
BOSTON – April 19, 2023 – LiquidStack , a liquid immersion cooling for data centers company, today announced the appointment of Trane Technologies executive Holly Paeper to its Board of Directors. Paeper is president of Trane Technologies’ global Life Science Solutions business. As a member of the board, Paeper will apply her experience in growth, operations, […]
Report: Former Intel Exec Koduri, Now at Generative AI Start-up, in Acquisition Talks with Indian Data Center Operator
Raja Koduri, the former senior Intel architect who led the company’s accelerated computing and graphics chip efforts, is in acquisition discussions with a major data center operator in India for the generative AI software company Koduri joined after leaving Intel in March. According to a Reuters story, Koduri’s still unnamed startup could partner or acquire […]
Hyperview Appoints Bill Kleyman to Advisory Board
VANCOUVER — March 14, 2023 Hyperview, a cloud-based data center infrastructure management (DCIM) platform provider, has named award-winning industry analyst Bill Kleyman to its advisory board. Kleyman, who has spent more than 15 years specializing in the cybersecurity, virtualization, cloud and data center industry, brings a deep understanding of emerging technologies to Hyperview. “Bill is […]
Vertiv Introduces Chilled Water Thermal Wall for Slab-Floor Data Centers in EMEA
London — March 07, 2023 — IT infrastructure vendor Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) has introduced the Vertiv Liebert CWA, a thermal management system for slab floor data centres. For decades, hyperscale and colocation providers have used raised floor environments to cool their IT equipment. Simplifying data centre design with slab floors enables the construction of new white […]
GIGABYTE Announces OCP-Compliant Enterprise Products
March 2, 2023 ─ High performance server company Giga Computing has announced new GIGABYTE enterprise products that follow the Open Compute Project (OCP) Open Rack Version 3 (ORV3) standards. Supporting the latest CPU advancements on both x86 and ARM platforms, these new solutions have been designed for open, scalable and efficient designs that are used […]
GlobalConnect Claims First with Submerged Cooling Colo in Europe
Copenhagen — Feb. 16, 2023 — Digital infrastructure provider GlobalConnect Groupsaid today it is the first colocation provider in Europe to offer submerged cooling to its customers, reducing datacenter power consumption for cooling by up to 90 percent. The cooling technology was recently installed in GlobalConnect’s data center in Copenhagen and will be rolled out […]