Fire Department to learn how to fire-resistant data center

Fire Department to lea how to fire-resistant data center From fresh technology in a data center, there is a system that nobody wants, or even tested the fire. Of all the threats of a bank of machines, smoke and flames up the rank with floods and natural disasters as one of the main conces of IT managers. Fortunately, there are ways to minimize the threat of careful planning and, above all, the right products. Must-haves for the good fortune to be able to create a new data center options for fire protection. Thanks to the growing importance of technology and more visibility for data centers, architects and builders are aware of the fact that these centers are specific issues. That? S led to the creation of more clean-agent fire suppression, the use of chemicals in water. The systems work by the chemical reaction of fire. Every product of this strategy is based on a slightly different, but most of oxygen, used to spread the fire. Without the oxygen molecules, which essentially suffocates the fire and is safe, why? And there are no toxic chemical residue or damage to the tactical. Systems include inergen, sapphire, and ECAR-25th When the construction of a new center on planning, as it is, says Peter Sacco, president of the company to design PTS Data Center Solutions. ? If you? Once again, a new you? King will be in a different system than the rest of the building will be? He says. ? It is very likely that any other part of the building has a sprinkler, as an IT manager in the planning for that? S does not automatically included in the data center, as well. One of the most recent is the fire suppression aerosol of a base, he adds, in the data center from the world space industry. These systems, such as Aero-K, is a tu off oxygen aerosol gases or aerosols used for other types of propulsion gas, hanging in the atmosphere and basically just about a blanket protection systems. Although these aerosol-based systems are just beginning to be introduced in building the new center, Sacco believes that it should be more widespread in coming years. (For more information about Aero-K, which? The best thing: Aero-K? Sidebar below.) Caution If the buyer of a company colocating or relocate their data center, fire protection should be already there, but Sacco was that it should receive special attention at the time of signing the lease on a place that, as a Halon 1301 fire suppression system. Halon is odorless and colorless, which extinguishes the fire of gas to optimize the combustion process. E 'state from places such as centers, libraries, museums and art, why not they? T residues. But in the late 1990s, Halon was as ecologically harmful, but also as potentially harmful for all is to tu off? Not a good situation for the IT staff who may be in the data center, if a fire breaks out in a building. Although Halon has been banned for the new building, which was not? T and not fill the tanks are still available for systems that are still in force. This means that if a data center manager is trying to colocar, and the matter was before the middle? Anni'90, it is possible that a system is halon. In addition to environmental and health problems, is worth about stripping the system or looking for another subject, notes Sacco, halons, because it is often considered an alteative to a poor water system. For halons for work, the chamber must be airtight, since the gas is heavier than air. This means that all plans or air vents, the system could be less effective. Data Center Makeover for companies that are not? T build a new data center, but you want to spiff their existing facilities, fire protection issues more complicated. The replacement of a system with another is not? T just a discussion, the architect and director of the IT department, but also the local fire authority must be involved. Sometimes it is a community? Nonsprinkler T is a system set up, no matter how effective it is in other plants. ? Unfortunately, the standards adopted by the municipality in which the data is? Sacco says. ? The fire inspector may be a chemical system in the building, but did not approve the reduction of sprinklers in a wet processing. That? S quite frequently. In this case, Sacco notes that data center managers should work with the architects to develop a first, the water keeps under control until it is absolutely necessary. This system will populate the tubes with water, but won? T is of liberation? Saturday considerable heat in the room. In general, Sacco recommended that each data center, new or old, should be a complex system for fire safety. This includes the latest fire suppression, but also make the regular testing, allocation of responsibility for the maintenance of the system, and integration of fire with different temperature controls. About the Author None