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Data Center Containment

Data center containment is the separation of cold supply air from the hot exhaust air from IT equipment.

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AI Data Center Airside Economizer ASHRAE Thermal Guidelines Auto-Discovery

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B

Blade Chassis Blade Server Branch Circuit Monitoring

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C

Cable Spaghetti Calibrated Vectored Cooling Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE)Certified Data Center Management Professional (CDCMP®)Certified Data Center Professional (CDCP®)Close-Coupled Cooling Cloud Computing Cloud Repatriation Cold Aisle Containment Cold Plate Cooling Colocation Data Center Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC)Computer Room Air Handler (CRAH)Configuration Management Database (CMDB)

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D

Data Center Data Center Asset Audit Data Center Asset Management Data Center Automation Data Center Busway Data Center Cable Management Data Center Capacity Planning Data Center Carbon Footprint Data Center Chiller Data Center CMDB Data Center Components Data Center Consolidation Data Center Containment Data Center Cooling Data Center Cooling Tower Data Center Energy Consumption Data Center Energy Efficiency Data Center Environment Monitoring Data Center Evaporative Cooling Data Center Floor Plan Data Center Generator Data Center Gray Space Data Center Heat Rejection Data Center Hot Spots Data Center Immersion Cooling Data Center Infrastructure Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)Data Center KPIs Data Center Liquid Cooling Data Center Maintenance Data Center Management Data Center Migration Data Center Monitoring Data Center Operations Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI)Data Center Physical Security Data Center Project Management Data Center Rectifier Data Center Redundancy Data Center Service Management (DCSM)Data Center Services Data Center Sustainability Data Center Switchgear Data Center Tiers Data Center Uptime Data Center Water Cooling Data Center White Space Delta-T Digital Twin Data Center Direct Current Data Center Direct Current Power Direct to Chip Cooling

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E

Edge Computing Edge Data Center Edge Infrastructure Electronic Door Locks Enterprise Data Center Environmental Sensors

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F

FedRAMP Compliance Requirements Floor PDU Free Cooling

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G

Ghost Server Green Data Center

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H

High-Density Data Center Hot Aisle Containment

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I

IDF Closet Intelligent PDU IT Asset Management (ITAM)

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L

Liquid Cooled Server

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M

Main Distribution Frame (MDF)Managed PDU MDF and IDF Meet-Me Room Metered PDU Micro Data Center Microchannel Cooling Modular Data Centers Moves, Adds, and Changes (MAC)

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N

N+1 Redundancy Network Documentation Network Topology Diagram

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O

Oil-Cooled Servers

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P

PCI Compliance Requirements Power Distribution Unit (PDU)Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)Psychrometric Chart

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R

Rack Diagram Rack Elevation Rack PDU Rack Server Rack Unit (RU)Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM)

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S

Second-Generation DCIM Server Rack Server Virtualization Single-Line Diagram Single-Phase Immersion Cooling Smart Hands Smart PDU Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)Structured Cabling Submerged Server Cooling Switched PDU

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T

Telecommunications Closet Telecommunications Data Center Temperature Sensors Three-Phase Load Balancing Three-Phase Power Tier 1 Data Center Tier 2 Data Center Tier 3 Data Center Tier 4 Data Center Two-Phase Immersion Cooling

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U

U Position Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)

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W

Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE)Water-Cooled Server Rack Waterside Economizer What-If Analysis

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