Fires in Data Centers: The Nature of the Beast by Axxana
Up until now IT managers could not care less about the exact nature of a possible fire in their data centers. Questions such as: what will the maximum temperature of a fire be in the data center; what will the duration of the fire be and; can I influence the above parameters were irrelevant to IT managers. The only question of any interest was Can I extinguish the fire before it evolves? The reason is obvious. If a fire is not extinguished before it develops then, regardless of its temperature and duration, equipment will be destroyed, data will be lost and application outages will be experienced. Equipment can be replaced, but data in another story. If, indeed, a fire develops and data is l...