Data center power management startup Power Assure recently announced that it has raised $2.5 million in Series A funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and individual investors.
Is resistance to off-hours downtime to maintain power systems increasing the likelihood of a prime-time outage? And are historic tensions between IT and facilities contributing to the problem?
Eaton Corporation today announced new configurations of its Eaton 9390 and Eaton 9395 uninterruptible power systems (UPSs) using a 400/230V AC power scheme.
Emerson Network Power expects to reduce the power bill for its new data center in St. Louis by 1 percent by using slightly higher voltage for the facility's power distribution.
Here's a video tour of the PowerHouse, a 40-foot container from Active Power (ACPW) that houses a diesel generator, flywheel UPS and switchgear to support a data center container.
Here's a video tour of the PowerHouse, a 40-foot container from Active Power (ACPW) that houses a diesel generator, flywheel UPS and switchgear to support a data center container.
Emerson Network Power's new data center in St. Louis features a 7,800-square-foot rooftop solar array, which can generate up to 100 kilowatts of supplemental power for the data center.
Google has begun operating data center in Belgium that has no chillers to support its cooling systems, which will improve energy efficiency but make local weather forecasting a factor in its network management.
Google has begun operating data center in Belgium that has no chillers to support its cooling systems, which will improve energy efficiency but make local weather forecasting a factor in its network management.