Monthly Archives: March 2015

Cooling technologies have evolved a great deal in the 21 years since City Lifeline was founded to colocate telecoms equipment, and have moved far beyond the original CRAC units of 1993. As such, modern London data centres have needed to continuously redesign and regenerate their cooling systems to keep up with an ever fluctuating industry. Location, location, location Data centres located in technology hotspots such as central London have specific cooling constraints due to the high cost of space. Using …

Modern organisations have become defined by the information technology they use, and as a result the data centre is where the key assets of any business now reside. Companies in all sectors now routinely devote resources to collecting, analysing and using the information in a data centre, even when that is not the obvious product of the organisation. Every business is different, and their information technology needs can vary wildly, especially when it comes to how they define and prioritise …