What is your opinion on ceiling tiles in the data center? We are building new facilities and there have been questions regarding the usefulness of a drop ceiling in the data center. Other than reducing the cost of gas fire suppression, are there other reasons a drop ceiling should be used? ...
What is the cost of implementing FM-200 on a square foot basis?Do you need a purge system, like Halon? Can the FM-200 be used in electric room, and what is the recommended concentration? How can you kill the electric power to a large electric room prior to preaction discharge?
Hi, we're working on 2 new datacenters to provide datavault/DR services to clients in three service tiers: cold, worm and hot. This will also be a traditional service provider DC with internet and hosting services. DC1 will be 2-3K Sqm. DC2 will be very small running as backup. there is a plan for...
Hi, we're working on 2 new datacenters to provide datavault/DR services to clients in three service tiers: cold, worm and hot. This will also be a traditional service provider DC with internet and hosting services. DC1 will be 2-3K Sqm. DC2 will be very small running as backup. there is a plan for...
A SearchDataCenter.com member recently asked: I am looking for the industry best practices regarding California data center rack protection against earthquakes. Many locations bolt the racks to the floor. Has there been any studies or industry acceptance of seismic isolation platforms? What is...
A SearchDataCenter.com member recently asked: What is best practice for staffing an enterprise level data center in terms of FTE numbers? Is there a model that states a minimum of 2 FTE's per shift for safety and then an FTE per number of monitors?
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How do I create a network design for a large business? The following is the scenario and the requirements, I need so help please. An Ice Cream Factory with 5 stores, citywide and has connectivity to the corporate office in Austin. Each store is responsible for maintaining its inventory locally,...
We only want one monitor in our IT production environment: CA Unicenter NSM Console. Therfore we want that all irregular events of Domino Administrator Server Monitoring are sent to CA Unicenter NSM Console. Has anybody done this or can give hints or tips? Thanks a lot.
TorontoMCS wrote: Has anyone actually been able to fully populate an HP blade server rack with 5 enclosures and 40 BL20p-G2 blades and manage to keep them cool? If so, how?? The numbers we get from HP would suggest the entire rack would put out more BTU's than a large backyard BBQ. Thnx. ...


