IT & Data Centers

We often talk about different scenarios where Room Alert is able to provide data center monitoring (among many other types of facilities) and help track temperature, humidity, power, flood, smoke, air flow, and more. Rather than talk in general terms, we wanted to give an exact situation Room Alert is providing data center environment monitoring. […]

Environment factors account for 27% of all data center outages, and can cause losses of over $300,000 per hour! One of the best and easiest ways to help avoid many of those issues is to keep your data center within the recommended acceptable temperature and humidity ranges. To help better understand those causes of downtime, […]

NOTE: An updated version of this article can be found here. In late 2005, we published an article outlining recommended data center temperature and humidity levels. Over the years, that article has been one of our most popular pages and has helped thousands of customers establish, monitor and maintain appropriate data center environment conditions. Since […]

January 23, 2015 (View Original Article) Processor – Vol. 37 Number 2 The many benefits of monitoring environment conditions in data centers have been fairly well documented in recent years. Still, many enterprises fail to implement even basic monitoring until after actually experiencing a problem. Though some reasons why enterprises take a “later than sooner” […]

February 13, 2014 Michael Sigourney Seasonal changes are a part of life. However, should environmental conditions outside impact your plan to protect the data center? Absolutely, even if it is multiple states away. It never snows inside the building although the influences of extreme temperature, rain, snow and ice can challenge even the best organization’s […]

NOTE: An updated version of this article can be found here. By Rick Grundy November 14, 2005 Monitoring the environment conditions in a computer room or data center is critical to ensuring uptime and system reliability. A report from the Gartner Group in late 2003 estimated that the average hourly cost of downtime for a computer […]