Saint Mary’s Hospital, a Catholic, not-for-profit, community teaching hospital has served patients in Waterbury, CT and the surrounding communities since 1909. Part of Trinity Health Of New England, and member of one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the nation, Saint Mary’s is committed to patient safety and satisfaction, offering the latest in cutting-edge technology, and providing high quality care at the lowest possible cost. Over its 110-year existence, Sain

If you have been around the data center industry you have no doubt heard claims of Tier III and Tier IV rated data centers. Sometimes, companies want or need to know how their own data centers measure up. Many co-Location providers will market their data centers referring to Tier levels. You will hear people refer to Uptime tiers and TIA-942 tiers, certifications and compliance but what does this all mean? What is the difference? In this article we hope to make some sens

A client needed to address power and cooling issues with their 5,000 square foot server room. The facility was the single most critical piece of real estate for the global media company. An outage at the facility would mean damage to the brand and complete and instant loss of revenues until services could be restored. Study Phase While FEA did not design the original power and cooling systems, having been working with the client since 1995, we were aware of the data center’

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 design of the Atlanta airport incorporated the best practices of airport design, but this did not provide the necessary system resiliency required to avoid a massive power outage. It is also interesting to note that the design documents were reviewed by the contractor, the power company and FAA based on airport design concepts so the deficiencies that contributed to the outage were not recognized nor properly addressed. This airport along with many other public faciliti