Short UPS runtime, alternative energy storage and microgrid applications were the recurring themes at Critical Power Expo 2015 in Novi, MI, which I attended in September.

Just like when you buy a house or set-up a business, location is paramount when selecting a data center colocation facility.

To make a data center truly resilient used to require significant hardware redundancy.

In the otherwise-forgettable movie, Sex Tape, starring Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel, the couple is in a car, talking about a risqué tape they had recorded, “It went up, it went up into the cloud … You can’t get it down from the cloud? … Nobody understands the cloud … it’s a mystery!”