Power and Cooling in the Age of the 'Hypescale' Data Center
With Intelligent Foundation, Emerson Power claims it delivers a more efficient, reliable, scalable and secure data center.
With Intelligent Foundation, Emerson Power claims it delivers a more efficient, reliable, scalable and secure data center.
Some Australian and New Zealand end users of data centre services are looking to switch providers after experiencing scale, power and downtime issues, according to an IDC study.
Thirty-nine per cent out of 100 Australian data centre employees surveyed by Campos Research & Analysis indicated that they were not measuring power usage in their facility.
A study released by Stanford University professor Jonathan Koomey pegs growth in energy use among US data centers at 36 per cent from 2005 to 2010 - which is slower than some had predicted but nonetheless significant.
Westpac has restored its online banking service following a prolonged outage, caused by an air-conditioning fault at a data centre. The bank’s group executive for retail and business banking, Rob Coombe, has also apologised to customers, promising a review of the events that caused the system failures.
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