18 Sep 2020
Posted byDSI
CategoryBlog, Data Center News, Data Centers, Power Quality, Press Releases

With Record Wildfires on the West Coast, DSI Renews Its Commitment to Data Center Uptime and Power Readiness

Yesterday, DSI announced its commitment to ensuring the Data Center ecosystem with uptime and power readiness.  With the record number of wildfires throughout the State of California and the Pacific Northwest, DSI is once again renewing its commitment to data uptime through our Power Check-Up Service.  You can read more about yesterday’s news in Mission Critical Magazine. Between the threat of wildfires, as well as the...

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27 Aug 2020
Posted byDSI
CategoryBlog, Data Center News, Data Center Services, Data Centers, Power Quality

California Power Emergency: Protecting Your Data Center

Because Data Centers rely on a continuous uninterrupted electrical power supply to function, the current heat emergency in California presents a significant risk for Data Center owners and managers. With temperatures in some parts of the state expected to reach, and stay at, triple digits in late August, and cities all across the Western US under high heat alerts, the grid is unable to handle...

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18 Aug 2020
Posted byDSI
CategoryBlog, Data Centers, Design, Monitoring

The Importance of Monitoring in the Data Center

Data Centers are complex facilities, with significant amounts of equipment—including servers, cables, power supplies, and cooling systems. To successfully manage and operate a Data Center requires a keen understanding of what's happening in the room, beyond the data storage and management services you're providing. You need to know what is physically happening - a complete picture of the equipment, the power, and the environment -...

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07 Aug 2020
Posted byDSI
CategoryBlog, Data Center News, Data Center Upgrade, Data Centers

DSI Delivers Upgraded Data Center and Armory for the City of Chico Police Department

The City of Chico Police Department, with 140 full-time employees and 100 police volunteers responsible for protecting the town of almost 100,000, needed to upgrade their existing Data Center to continue to protect critical dispatch and life safety response operations. They needed to ensure that the upgraded Data Center was wired for a future redundant UPS and to make room for additional server cabinets as...

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31 Jul 2020
Posted byDSI
CategoryBlog, Cooling, Data Centers, Energy Efficient Data Centers

Liquid Cooling: Creating an Energy Efficient Data Center

Cooling accounts for almost half of the energy needs in a Data Center. In addition, many Data Centers are increasingly focused on high density computing to deal with increased workloads from modern applications like Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things and Bitcoin Mining. This increased rack density uses more energy, which creates more heat, adding to already significant energy needs for cooling. While air cooling remains...

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24 Jul 2020
Posted byDSI
CategoryBlog, Data Center News, Data Center Services, Data Centers, News, Power Quality

July Newsletter Released

Earlier this week, we released our July newsletter. The newsletter summarizes what DSI has been up to over the last few months and offers tips you can implement at your own facilities. While the spread of COVID-19 has changed the way we work, it has also provided us with an opportunity to ensure that our customers’ Data Centers are operating with no downtime! For the last...

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17 Jul 2020
Posted byDSI
CategoryUncategorized

Data Center power: Avoiding pitfalls during power outages

Power is the lifeblood of a Data Center—to operate and maintain the critical data and applications housed in the facility. Yet where the power enters the Data Center is a single point of failure. Anything that threatens that steady flow of electricity, planned or unplanned, is a risk. Because downtime, from any cause, can result in damage to the organization, in reputation as well as...

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10 Jul 2020
Posted byDSI
CategoryBlog, Data Center Services, Data Centers, Safety

Cleaning and Maintaining Your Data Center in the Era of COVID-19

Regular cleaning and maintenance are essential to making sure that your Data Center works properly and that you're meeting your uptime requirements.  As well, it protects your investment in your mission critical IT equipment. With the primary risk being airborne contaminants, like dust, which can damage sensitive electronics or cause fires, cleaning is a simple step that can reduce the risk of downtime or loss...

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15 Jun 2020
Posted byDSI
CategoryBlog, Data Center News, Data Centers, Energy Efficient Data Centers, Monitoring

POWER SYSTEM PERFORMANCE: BE ON TOP OF IT!

Drew Latimer of Schneider Electric presented a very informative webinar called Power System Performance: Digitization and Actionable Insights. He addressed power management trends, electrical distribution components, capacity management, and data points. The webinar also included a discussion about how critical facilities owners and operators can collect and analyze power system performance data to improve efficiency and operations. As the digital economy grows, so do the...

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29 May 2020
Posted byDSI
CategoryBlog, Data Center News, Data Center Services, Data Centers, Events

AFCOM Southern California Chapter Meeting Goes Virtual

Not a group to let the COVID-19 pandemic slow them down, AFCOM So Cal’s Quarter 2 Educational Series was held online on May 14th. In typical AFCOM So Cal fashion, the online event was both excellent and informative. There was a lively discussion between multiple guest speakers about the current state of the Data Center world, with executives sharing thoughts and experiences about how the COVID-19...

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