Tate®, a market leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of products for raised floor data centers, announces that its DirectAire™ directional airflow panel is now included in Future Facilities' 6SigmaDC Data Center CFD Modeling Tool.

Passionate about data center simulation, Future Facilities is a company dedicated to addressing problems faced by modern mission critical facilities. The privately-owned company, a leading provider of data center infrastructure simulation software, was formed in 2004 with a simple mission: to ensure every data center can be a model data center.

Future Facilities' 6SigmaDC CFD tool is recognized as an industry-leading CFD modeling tool, providing full 3-dimensional CFD simulation techniques in the design and operational management of data centers. The latest Future Facilities' 6Sigma CFD software now allows the user to compare and contrast previous airflow panels to the new DirectAire™ airflow panel, and see the effects of the directional air flow plume provided by the DirectAire™ airflow panel.

Tate's DirectAire™ airflow panel represents a departure from typical vertical plume profile airflow panels by providing an angular flow directly to the face of the rack, resulting in a Total Air Capture (TAC) value of 93 percent. This means that 93 percent of the airflow delivered through the panel enters the face of the rack, providing the highest cooling capacity and energy efficiency of any panel on the market. DirectAire™ eliminates bypass air, which saves operating expenses and reduces (by up to 40 percent) the capital expenditures on cooling equipment in new facilities.

Please click these links to view Tate's new in-floor cooling devices and a white paper on data center cooling. For information about other Tate products and services, please review our Products page or call (410) 799-4200.

ABOUT TATE® ACCESS FLOORS, INC.
Tate Access Floors, Inc. is headquartered south of Baltimore in Jessup, Maryland, and is a member of the Kingspan Group of companies. Activities for Tate include research and development, manufacturing, sales, and distribution, with over 450 million square feet of raised access floor systems installed. Tate products provide service distribution solutions in office, education, equipment/server, public space, laboratory, casinos and clean room facilities.