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STULZ and Cloud&Heat plan global partnership
October 2018 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
STULZ has
announced a new strategic partnership with Cloud&Heat Technologies. As part
of this new technical and sales alliance, the hot water direct cooling
system developed by Dresden-based Cloud&Heat is to be marketed in future as
an equipment option for the STULZ MicroDC series.
In addition to IT cooling, efficient heat recovery is at the heart of
Cloud&Heat’s solution. Its patented technology enables the company to bring
the heat produced by the IT equipment to a constant temperature of 60°C
degrees and exports it for heating buildings and water. This technique not
only lowers the cost of cooling the data center, but also of heating and hot
water. This concept therefore helps to massively reduce the CO2 footprint of
IT systems.
With the Watercooled Micro Data Center, the two companies have designed an
air-conditioned 19" rack for high-density servers with IT loads of up to 40
kW per rack. The modern cooling concept combines the advantages of a hot
water direct cooling system with the recirculation capacity of a side cooler- energy savings of around 60 percent can be achieved compared to classic
circulating air cooling systems. The water cooling system is available in
various versions for blade servers or GPU computing.
The combination of cloud-based computing power and decentralized heat
generation offers STULZ customers a proven solution satisfying a broad range
of applications. Cloud&Heat systems have already been successfully deployed
worldwide in the areas of high-performance computing and on-premise cloud.
The company also supports data center operators and project developers in
the drive for green building initiatives and prosumer solutions in
particular in edge computing architectures, IoT and digitization projects.
As well as the technology for recovering server waste heat, Cloud&Heat will
also be providing STULZ with the software for the pump control, temperature
regulation and remote monitoring. In exchange, STULZ will support the cloud
specialist by providing service and maintenance and assisting with the
international expansion of its sales activities. STULZ currently has 20
subsidiaries in globally important target markets such as the U.S., China
and Brazil, and its extensive partner network has a presence in over 140
countries worldwide. The Watercooled Micro Data Center is available globally
and can be purchased from STULZ and Cloud&Heat.
