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Cheaper way to deal with the waste heat at data centers?

Feb 21, 2013 |
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Philly.com

At any given moment, millions of financial transactions, e-mail, and online videos may be coursing through the circuitry of one of the massive computer server farms that have proliferated in the Internet age. In Alfonso Ortega's thinking, it's a lot of hot air. He's not talking about spam...Gary W. Aron, a vice president of software provider Asset Vue, said that, in earlier incarnations, data-center operators responded to excessive heat conditions by simply cranking up the air-conditioning so much that the wind would "make your hair stand on end."

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Sean Cotter is President of Asset Vue, bringing 27 years of experience in IT leadership, business development, and entrepreneurship. He leads the company’s strategic direction and team, helping organizations simplify inventory management through RFID and barcode technology, automated data capture, and asset lifecycle tracking.

Sean’s expertise spans RFID and automatic identification technologies, process optimization, data center infrastructure management, and environmental monitoring. Before Asset Vue, he founded and grew an outsourced IT business and later served as Director of IT and CIO at the DVL Group. He has also taught Operations Management as an Adjunct Professor at West Chester University and holds a master’s degree in business from Saint Joseph’s University’s Haub School of Business.

His writing draws on this operational and technology experience to explore practical approaches to asset visibility, inventory accuracy, and more efficient IT asset management.

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