Reasons Why Fire Protection Measures are Important in Data Centre Environments
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Fire stopping in Data Centre is a critical safety measure designed to prevent the spread of fire, smoke, and toxic gases within the facility. Given the importance of continuous operation and the sensitive equipment housed in Data Centres, effective fire stopping is essential to minimize damage, protect personnel, and ensure business continuity. Some Key Aspects […]
Data Centre Construction: Controlling Contamination
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Managing the Demand The construction of hyperscale Data Centre’s is at full throttle right now with DC’s being built across the globe for the biggest companies in the world. The onsite management of construction contamination throughout the build phase is vitally important to ensure the best cleanliness standards are achieved when handing over the white […]
Clean PUE Results
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Energy is the new currency according to Data Centre owners and operators. With demand for power on the increase, data growth can only accelerate in the future. With such demand, it’s vital that IT equipment is kept in clean spaces as to ensure the optimum running of the machines and hardware are not compromised in […]
Data Centre Planned Preventative Maintenance
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Question, why do you have your car serviced regular? The answer is to ensure it runs smoothy and reduces the risk of it breaking down and incurring an expensive and unexpected repair. Maintaining Data Centre’s and the critical space that supports these buildings are just like maintaining cars. ASHRAE realized that all Data Centre’s should […]
Data Centres Monitor & Manage Contamination
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Data Centre cleanliness is fast becoming a recognised requirement across the globe, and the impact that contamination and particulate matter have on mission critical equipment could be catastrophic for Data Centre owners, users and end clients if not managed correctly. Dedicated Associations Dedicated associations like the DCA’s Specialist Interest Groups (SIG’s) that are created for […]
Data Centre Cleaning: What Company Should you Hire?
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Data Centre’s today hold vast amounts of sensitive and critical equipment carrying an infinite quantity of data and information all kept operational by a life line of power, cooling and other related services fed to it 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The cost of an “outage” to financial, telecommunications, and co-location Data […]
IT Outages: Is human error to blame?
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Downtime in a critical space is something that all Data Centre owners and operators fear, this could be a catastrophic event which may affect tens of thousands of users, or cost tens of thousands of pounds (£/$). Whilst the service remains out of action, this number could escalate very quickly indeed. With reliability of Data […]