The UAE based pioneer of revolutionary data center solutions TechXact, has announced plans to unveil for the 1st time in the region, live demo of Fire Prevention System replacing the legacy Fire Suppression Systems, to protect the server farms, data centers, disaster recovery sites etc… from risks associated with potential fire-related incidents. The new product [...]

one of the things I have found is the name “data center” is not an accurate description to the layman of what data centers do. Are data centers the “center of data”?  In the past there was one corporate building that was the place where data was housed for the corporation. The standard for Fortune [...]

At Tuesday’s Green:Net 09 conference, Jonathan Koomey of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Stanford University shared his research on the amount of electricity used by data centers. K. In this talk, Jonathan makes a key point that often gets lost in discussions of IT energy efficiency. “The biggest environmental story is not the actual electricity [...]

Rackspace reports that parts of its Dallas data center lost power early today during testing of power distribution units (PDUs) during scheduled maintenance. This resulted in downtime for sites hosted on SliceHost and The Rackspace Cloud, including the leading tech blog TechCrunch, which ensured that the outage was widely noted on blogs and Twitter. The [...]

Data centers today are undergoing unprecedented change, as new technologies such as virtualization, cloud computing, and voice over IP help lower operating cost, conserve floor space and simplify management. Yet those same technologies are also impacting the data center power chain in significant and varying ways. Some companies, for example, consolidated their servers only to [...]