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Schneider Electric has announced the public availability of reference designs for data center infrastructure systems.

Cisco has announced its intent to acquire privately held WHIPTAIL.

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) has announced the launch of the ODCA Flash Webinar Series.

Smoke detection in data centers is critical, not only for life safety reasons, but also to reduce fire-related business interruption and property damage.

With today’s aging electric infrastructure, data centers, airports, critical care centers, and the like are investing a considerable amount of time, effort, and money into the selection of their backup data and power systems to protect critical information.

Think back to 2000. What did the data center look like? New, higher density server technology was trending, but adoption rates weren’t particularly impressive.

Uninterrupted operation is the name of the game in mission critical facilities, such as data and telecommunications centers.

By now, if you have not already seen the impact on your data centers cooling systems from the dog days of the summer’s heat and humidity

The Dakotas are generally not the first area that comes to mind when considering where to develop a new data center.

This next column addresses the selection of a data center colocation/wholesale provider. This selection becomes the basis of comparison between building one’s own data center and outsourcing to a data center provider.