Are Your Cables Under Control?
April 17, 2014 Written by JohnTech
Okay, here are a couple of scenarios…If you are a girl (or a hippy dude sporting lovely locks) with long hair and you don’t use conditioner, is it manageable or is it a giant rats nest that takes FOREVER to untangle? If you are a guy (or a girl in charge of the family finances) and you throw your junk mail, paperwork, bills, and important documents in a pile on your desk, do you have hours or organizing (or maybe even days) when tax time rolls around (kinda like right now)? Well, the cables in your data center are no different.
If you don’t manage the hundreds of cables flowing from your racks, you will have a mess that…
Will take hours to untangle
Make it difficult to add new cables
***IMPORTANT WARNING*** Heat Will Not Be Properly Removed From Your Equipment, which as we all know, can cause expensive damage.
Don’t worry, Johnston Technologies is your go to company for all your cable management accessories and needs. If you visit their website at www.johntech.com, you will see they carry all D-Rings, vertical or horizontal ladders, and cable trays to manage your company’s cables.
So how exactly do cable trays and ladders help to organize and manage your data center? Easy.They place all your cables (And believe me, there are more than you can imagine.) in a train like track assembly that runs either above the racks or below the raised data center floor. This keeps your cables organized, untangled, and most importantly, it keeps them from piling up behind you equipment.
I am only going to mention airflow management again because it is so important. YOU DO NOT WANT ANYTHING BLOCKING THE BACK OF YOUR EQUIPMENT. Last week’s blog talked about this; heat needs to be safely removed from your computers, etc. and not recirculated back into them. The heat situation could be even worse if it can’t escape at all. Irreparable damage could occur which would cause you money not only in down time, but also in repair or replacement costs.
Here’s another way to look at cable management accessories. You know how it’s spring cleaning time, right? Well you know the feeling you get when you accomplish cleaning off your desk and step back to look at it? It is clean. It is clutter free. It has neat, organized bins. You can find anything you need on it quickly. Well imagine getting the same feeling at work.
You step into your data center after a weekend after Johnston Technologies has provided horizontal ladders and cable trays. You can see the floor…free of tangled cables. The clutter is gone and a feeling of organization overwhelms you. You know your equipment is now running properly because the airflow is not restricted. Plus, you have been needing to add a few things but have been putting it off because you weren’t sure how to go about handling the cable mess first.
Not only is that “rats nest” now untangled, but Johnston Technologies actually used trays (one of your many options) that separate the different types of cables like power, fiber, and communication. You data center looks so sleek now. A warm, happy feeling is overcoming you, isn’t it? It’s okay; you can admit it.