451 Research - Direct liquid cooling is mounting a comeback as the next big thing in datacenters. Vendors, established and emerging alike, sense an opportunity for (or threat from) real change this time around as the technology and business environment puts datacenters under increasingly more pressure to deliver online services for less money and less energy. A key obstacle, beyond even the huge market inertia around air-cooled facilities, is perception: Customers identify liquid cooling with specific implementations they’ve come across (and likely rejected) rather than the broad category it is, with a diverse set of possible approaches to fitting out and running a datacenter. This view needs to change if liquid cooling is to become standard in datacenters.
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