Computerworld: City Council Chilling Again After Data Center Meltdowns

[BillP]

Abstract: After a series of ugly overheating incidents in the data center it oversees, the Maribyrnong, Australia, city council knew it was time to get serious about the facility's failing infrastructure.

The city council of Maribyrnong, which borders Melbourne and has 63,000 residents and 3,000 businesses, was managing a data center with 23 servers, a multitude of UPS devices, four disparate racks from different vendors and a domestic air conditioning unit.

"The overheating of the data center equipment significantly shortened the life of several servers which subsequently had to be replaced," Bretherton said.

"After the second incident, we had to get serious. We decided to combine two projects -- upgrading the UPS and data center cooling solutions."

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