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December 30, 2010
FIBERTOWN, Houston colocation provider, Tier IV-designed data center and business continuity campus, published a new eBook that details four major malfunctions in dual-powered data center designs that lead to downtime and excessive costs. “Four Secrets to Avoiding Data Center Downtime” arms IT managers and network engineers with guidelines on how to avoid these breakdowns and reduce power charges.
“Maintaining a Tier IV-designed colocation facility requires fault tolerant network design to ensure 100% uptime and concurrent maintainability,” said Wes Smith, director of data center operations at FIBERTOWN. “This eBook shares our expertise and experience delivering on this guarantee with practical solutions to failures that lead to costly network interruptions.”
Modern data centers utilizing dual-powered designs, or A-B power, have further increased the reliability of IT systems by ensuring reliable power distribution and delivery. However, improper implementation can negate or diminish the effectiveness of a dual-powered design.
A dual-powered data center may be shut down for maintenance or fail without affecting services to the end user by delivering at least two power circuits to each cabinet, one from the A power source and one from the B source.
Failure to properly design, size and implement dual power infrastructure at the cabinet may lead to one of the following outcomes, which are discussed in this eBook:
“Four Secrets to Avoiding Data Center Downtime” is available for complimentary download at http://fibertown.com/about/download-library/four-design-tips-for-the-dual-powered-data-center.
