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IBM Grants Water-Cooling Intellectual Property License to Vette

Posted on: Monday, 10 December 2007, 12:00 CST

IBM and Vette, a provider of thermal management solutions, have announced a series of agreements for Vette to license IBM's Rear Door Heat eXchanger water-cooling technology. In addition to increasing access to the IBM CoolBlue portfolio of technologies, the alliance is expected to provide end-to-end solutions for data center cooling.

Under the terms of the agreements, Vette will use IBM's Rear Door Heat eXchanger technology to manufacture product and to develop new products that integrate easily with a majority of industry standard 42U racks. The company will also supply ancillary products, installation, commissioning and support services, enabling the delivery of turn-key project deployments. Under the terms of the agreements, Vette also has rights to use IBM's cooling technology logo and patent.

George Dannecker, president and CEO of Vette, said: "Today, Vette offers a solution that leverages over three decades of IBM water-cooling experience and provides the potential for tremendous energy savings. The move makes Vette Corp the first fully integrated electronics company to offer both spot and system level cooling paired with liquid cooling for datacom facility applications."

Mike Desens, vice president of data center development at IBM, said: "IBM pioneered liquid-cooling technology at the systems level and our relationship with Vette Corp will help bring this technology to a broader set of customers and products."

The Rear Door Heat eXchanger is effective at dealing with data center 'hot-spots' and facilitates the deployment of fully loaded racks, offering space savings and flexibility for sites that have often exceeded their cooling capacity.

Source: Datamonitor

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