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KEVIN ROOF
TITLE: SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER AT NVENT
Kevin Roof is a Senior Product Manager at nVent, where he leads the organisation’ s Data Center Solutions product portfolio for liquid cooling and networking equipment. Roof brings over eight years of data centre infrastructure experience with a focus on developing scalable and sustainable solutions for data centres. He also holds a bachelor’ s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota.
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ADRIAN CHIAM
TITLE: SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT
COMPANY: NVENT’ S HEAD OF SALES FOR THE SEA & ANZ REGIONS
Adrian Chiam is nVent’ s Head of Sales for the SEA & ANZ regions. He has over four years’ experience in data centres where he has delivered large scale deployments from OEMs, colocations, and has collaborated with server manufacturers out of Taiwan. Chiam has over 15 years of sales experience and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Adelaide.
EXPLORING THE BENEFITS OF LIQUID-TO-AIR COOLANT DISTRIBUTION UNITS( CDUS)
Liquid-to-air( LTA) cooling solutions are a central component in helping the data centre industry transition to liquid cooling. Growing demand for AI and High-Performance Computing requires liquid cooling, but facility retrofits and expansions are time- and resource-intensive, not to mention expensive. Kevin Roof, Senior Global Product Manager – Cooling & Networking, nVent, offers his advice for data centre managers when designing and selecting components for LTA cooling systems, as well as priorities for scaling highperformance and AI capabilities. h
How LTA technology works
LTA technology goes by many names in the industry: LTA CDUs, LTA heat rejection units and LTA heat dissipation units are all common. In truth, these all refer to the same kind of system – one that takes air from room cooling and pulls it through fans over a coil, which then cools liquid going
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