IT & Data Centers

A prolonged heat wave can be disastrous for your business. Environmental conditions can lead to health concerns for your employees, reduced office productivity due to the heat, and power outages due to overworked power grids can lead to server failure, hard drive crashes, and data loss. Heat waves occur all over the globe and regardless […]

Consistent, clean power is the heartbeat of every organization that relies on technology in any way. Without primary power, your phones are most likely down, your data center is dark, your server room is silent, and you are effectively closed for business. Being able to earn revenue is a key reason that power monitoring in […]

Data centers are the lifeblood of many organizations. Whether their primary focus is supporting the organization’s data and infrastructure or providing services to clients, any downtime they suffer will have a hugely negative impact. It’s important to have a clear view of all the factors that can potentially lead to data center downtime. Outside and […]

Data center environment monitoring has been a core focus of ours for nearly 30 years. Room Alert and our sensors & software are designed to monitor, log, alert, and report on a wide number of environment factors that can cause downtime and damage in your data center (or nearly any other type of facility). Monitoring […]

Individuals and organizations alike rely on data centers to be up and running 24x7x365. With the emergence of cloud-based technologies, data center infrastructure and uptime has become a prominent factor when it comes to internet-based tools. As a result, business continuity factors for data centers have become increasingly important, and downtime prevention is more critical […]

Data center environment monitoring should be a major factor in your organization’s business continuity plan. As part of that proactive monitoring, automatic corrective action should be a key component to help keep your data center up and running, and to quickly recover from issues when they are detected. Automatic corrective action can go a long […]

Data center monitoring has become an entire industry on its own over the last 20 years. Uptime, performance, and reliability are all critical to data centers, whether it’s a small local server room or a large multi-tenant facility. Any number of environment factors can spell disaster for data centers and facilities, however temperature will always […]

Customers who install Room Alert  are usually most interested in monitoring temperatures in their facilities, based on the questions our Product Specialists are usually asked during an initial call from a new user. It remains the top environment factor most customers are initially concerned with. Temperature is a critical environment factor to monitor regardless of […]

Over the past 10 years, many businesses have made a push to store their data in the cloud. Costs have dropped, while availability and reliability have increased. However, there are still many organizations that maintain their own local data center to house critical data and equipment. For those businesses, disaster recovery becomes a primary concern […]

Data centers are heavily guarded against intrusion and network data loss. Cyber-attacks and cybercrime remain among the top reasons for data center outages, and data center owners as well as businesses that operate their own data center have multiple safeguards in place to protect them. Unplanned data center outages come from many sources, however. Environment […]