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.

In the summer of 2011, Time Warner Cable’s mission critical team was presented with a unique problem: How do you build nearly 15,000 sq ft of data center space in one of the most expensive and densely populated neighborhoods in the United States?

The number of mission critical and data center installations is rapidly increasing and these facilities are adopting technology that provides more re-dundancy and scalability than ever before.

In a world of constant IT security combat between hackers and security practitioners, advancement in newer hacking and intrusion methods puts pressure on corporate IT teams to strengthen IT security.