Over the last three years we have been trending one client’s data center power consumption from weekly power readings taken by their operations staff. We use the trends to predict failover scenarios, identify capacity constraints and plan infrastructure upgrades. We also use the readings to observe the overall data center power consumption. Over the past three years the data center saw a steady decline in overall data center power consumption. July of 2015, the total data

The National Fire Protection Association, NFPA 75 Standard for the Fire Protection of Information Technology Equipment requires all Data Center air ducts and air transfer openings that pass through the fire rated construction be provided with fire and smoke dampers. A combination fire/smoke damper installed at the fire rated assembly meets this requirement for ducts serving the Data Center. Ducts passing through the Data Center but only serving other rooms are only required