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Data centres: Why They Need Water Leak Detection Systems

Water leak detection is commonly installed in datacentres, communications rooms and other information technology dependent structures. After all it is crucial to protect these critical assets from both fire and floods by receiving the earlier possible notification of an incident, allowing action to be taken quickly to take preventative measures. Leaking water from HVAC, AC units, water pipes, drainage or even ground water can cause significant disruption. By Graham Jarvis, Freelance Business...

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Visual air quality indicator care for data centres

Technology Care LLC has launched an air quality card which changes color when exposed to air particles and corrosive gases. The card can be affixed to data center walls and inside racks.

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Data centres urged to re-evaluate contingency plans due to increasing outages

Many data centres are in danger of experiencing significant downtime during a power failure as it’s revealed that one quarter of UK energy decision makers do not have a contingency plan in place.

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V-Lock security system from Siemon improves cabinet access control

Unplanned data centre downtime can cost the business thousands of dollars per minute. Whilst power outages and network failures range amongst the most common causes, industry reports show that data centre outages are often attributed to human error. In a colocation facility human error can be as simple as accidentally accessing the wrong cabinet for patching and maintenance work.

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Why teams are still living in the dark ages?

How to solve the disconnect between manual and digital asset management. By Mark Gaydos, chief marketing officer, Nlyte.

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Certification tackles growing sustainability issues of data centres

The environmental impact of data usage is growing fast. Carbon dioxide emissions from data centers are now equal to those of the global air travel. To help tackle the problem, the sustainability certification TCO Certified will be expanded to include network equipment, data storage products and servers.

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Keysource has launched its sixth annual State of the Industry Report which gathers the views and...
Siemon has introduced a new WheelHouse® Interactive Data Centre Guide designed to help managed...
Following its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on December 14th, the European Data Centre Association...
Acquisition will drive accelerated global expansion of Serverfarm's data center portfolio and...
New technology shows in simulation that flow completion times can be shortened by up to 95%.
Opengear is launching its new family of console managers, the CM8100. As the latest addition to its...
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Australian fish farm undergoes IT upgrade by investing in edge infrastructure

Australian fism farming company Tassal looked at harnessing IT to make its business of growing salmon more sustainable and cost-effective. It invested in an integrated IT solution powered by Vertiv and Dell EMC for its business in Tasmania.

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