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Datacenter Fire Frequency
The catastrophic fire that occurred at OVHcloud’s SBG2 data…

Learning from the OVHcloud data center fire
The fire that destroyed a data center (and damaged others) at…

Datacenter Fire Frequency
The catastrophic fire that occurred at OVHcloud’s SBG2 data…

Learning from the OVHcloud data center fire
The fire that destroyed a data center (and damaged others) at…
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Rack Density is Rising
Density is rising
The power density per rack (kilowatts [kW]…

Common Factors for IT venue selection (Choosing In-house or Outsource)
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Data center capacity is rapidly expanding in outsourced, third-party…

COVID-19, air filtration and energy use
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused concerns about data center HVAC…

Why ASHRAE is concerned about edge data centers
There are few organizations that have had as big an impact on…

PUE: The golden metric is looking rusty
When the PUE (power usage effectiveness) metric was first discussed…

Why data center operators are investing in more redundancy
When Uptime Institute recently asked over 300 data center managers…

Job Projections, 2019-2029, Macro shifts, Gig work and the Baby-Boomers
In mid-September 2020, The US Bureau of Labor and Statistics…

Increasing data center temperatures to reduce energy costs
Periodically we get questions about data center temperatures…


Data Centers and Thunder, Lightning, Wind and Rain
Data centers are built and sited to withstand all that Mother…

Will the pandemic accelerate the move to public cloud?
As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, many people have suggested…

Data Centers and Wildfires
As will be discussed in our upcoming note about managing data…
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Explaining the Uptime Institute’s Tier Classification System (April 2021 Update)
September 2014Note: This is an April 2021 update to an article previously published. Uptime Institute’s Tier Standard and it's Tier Classification... -
The Making of a Good Method of Procedure
February 2015By Kevin HeslinGood MOPs (method of procedure) help humans manage the complexity inherent in data centers By Alfonso Aranda with Lee Kirby... -
A Look at Data Center Cooling Technologies
July 2015By Kevin HeslinSabey optimizes air-cooled data centers through containment By John Sasser The sole purpose of data center cooling technology is to... -
Data Center Cooling: CRAC/CRAH redundancy, capacity, and selection metrics
November 2014By Kevin HeslinStriking the appropriate balance between cost and reliability is a business decision that requires metrics By Dr. Hussein Shehata This... -
Is PUE actually going UP?
May 2019One of the more intriguing results of the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2019 concerned energy efficiency. For years,... -
Implementing Data Center Cooling Best Practices
June 2014By Kevin HeslinStep-by-step guide to data center cooling best practices will help data center managers take greater advantage of the energy savings...