How Protected is Your Equipment Room from Downtime?

SAN/NAS/Object/Tape/Hyperconverged/Converged/On Premise/Hybrid/Cloud/Edge What do all of these technologies have in common? They all run on hardware that draws power and generates heat. The newest, fastest versions draw more power and generate more heat. So, why not place them in an environment that will keep...

Seven Steps to Selecting a Rack PDU for Your Data Center

As you can imagine, a wide variety of rack power distribution unit (PDU) configurations are available based on parameters such as: number of phases, voltage, total amps, branch circuits, number of outlets, socket type, plug type, rack units consumed, and physical dimensions. Beyond the functions of the basic rack...

Distributed heating gets a backer

Slicing a data center up into domestic heating systems may be an extreme idea, but it just got backed by a conventional data center firm. After years of work, it looks like the idea of distributed cloud heating is gaining some acceptance: the French pioneer...