Data Centre News Update's Press Releases – March 2011 Archive (2)

GSH Completes Black Building Tests for Royal Bank of Scotland

GSH Group has completed black building tests at three critical London office and data centre locations for Royal Bank of Scotland as part of the company’s business continuity and risk avoidance strategy. The testing process was undertaken during a two-month period, as part of an ongoing maintenance programme and was designed to check essential mechanical and electrical systems and building infrastructure whilst minimising operational downtime.…

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Monitoring and Measurement Only Way to Avoid Costly Failures

Many data centres are underperforming due to the incorrect provisioning of plant capacity for the levels of resilience required according to Stephen Lorimer, Data Centre Design Consultant at Keysource. Speaking at Data Centre World, he explained that lack of monitoring and measurement was preventing some facilities from achieving optimum efficiency because of excessive power and cooling capacity.

“With increasing focus on energy consumption, data centre owners and operators are…

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