Lifeline Data Centers provides outsourced data center facilities and services.
* Facilities comparable to the Uptime Institute Tier IV data center specification
* F5 tornado resistant, redundant power and cooling
* Customized private cages and rack space
* Staging, storage and office space
* Underground hardened space
* Multiple carriers and no cross connect fees
* 24x7 NOC with managed services
* Primary data centers and disaster recovery sites
* Improving operational efficiencies
* Reducing risks of managing complex information technology
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Lifeline Data Centers uses chilled water for data center cooling at the Eastgate facility. The heat is reclaimed from the system and used to heat the former mall's concourse and future office space.
Earlier today we wrote about Aquasar, a supercomputer developed by IBM and the Swiss research center ETH, which features a liquid cooling technique that allows for waste heat to be reused to warm buildings at the Zurich ETH university campus. IBM has released a video offering a high-level overview of the Aquasar system, which runs about 2 minutes.
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Rackspace Hosting (RAX) expects to issue customer service credits from Monday’s data center outage of between $2.5 million and $3.5 million, the company said in an SEC filing.
An unusual series of equipment failures contributed to Monday’s power outage at a Rackspace data center near Dallas, in which several parts of the facility lost power. The most significant failure involved a bank of generators that malfunctioned, leaving several computing clusters without backup power. Other failures involved equipment that connects the data center to its two utility feeds, a UPS system and a transfer switch. The outage affected two of the four phases of data center space in the facility in Grapevine, Texas.
Data Center Knowledge articleby Lifeline Data Centers
The ongoing economic recession can help drive adoption of green IT within the data centre, according to a report from Datamonitor.
Slideshow: 5 Tools to Prevent Energy Waste in the Data Center
"The downturn has resulted in green IT trends for data centres, client devices and asset lifecycle management, as well as re-shaped return on investment (ROI) models," Rhonda Ascierto, senior analyst at Datamonitor and the author of the study, Can Green IT Bloom in an Economic Downturn.
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