Raxco Software announced that First Data Solutions, a banking data
center in the southeastern United States, chose PerfectDisk and
PerfectDisk for Exchange for its disk defragmentation and storage
management needs.
Emerson Network Power released results from a recent industry survey that provides insight into the actions some data center operators have taken to increase the efficiency of their facilities and identifies the challenges organizations face in driving additional improvements.
UTC Power, announced on June 27th that its PureCell Model 200 fuel cell
system at East Rochester elementary school is helping that school
district improve its reliability while significantly paring its energy
bill.
According to a new study by Opengate Data Systems, a
typical data center running at 5,000 watts per server cabinet will
experience an automatic and thermal shutdown within three minutes and
nine seconds during a power outage. Higher-density data center
applications experience even more rapid heat-up and shutdown times,
with 10,000 watts or more of server equipment shutting down in less
than one minute.
Pentadyne Power Corporation announced on August 6th that one of its flywheels is now part of the power protection system for KDEN-DT’s digital television transmission facility near Denver. The Pentadyne system is operating as the sole source of energy storage for the transmission site’s uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system.
The Aperture Research Institute found that almost half of organizations (49 percent) are not able to track changes across physical aspects of their data center including space, power and cooling and less than one third (29 percent) have implemented ITIL.
FuelCell Energy, Inc. launched a new web site at www.fuelcellenergy.com. The site contains extensive information on the company’s patented Direct FuelCell (DFC) technology and also provides a comprehensive overview of the benefits fuel cell power plants offer for a wide variety of markets and industries such as wastewater treatment, manufacturing, food/beverage processing, and utility/grid support.
BNP Media and Ascend Media announced that BNP Media had acquired the Professional Services Division of Ascend Media in a press release dated August 31st. The Professional Services Division includes the Food, Beverage, and Packaging Group and the Gaming Group of magazines, conferences, web sites, and events.
CyrusOne completed an additional 16,000 square feet of high-density data center space, built to deliver over 250 watts per square foot of computer load, in its Houston technology campus, making it the largest, high-density colocation provider in the Southwest region.
APC-MGE and the STULZ air-conditioning experts in Hamburg have agreed to deliver customers comprehensive, integrated data center cooling solutions and services. Under the agreement, APC-MGE will add an APC-branded perimeter cooling solution manufactured by STULZ to its comprehensive cooling offering, currently lead by its high-density InRow offering.