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A fire at a major carrier hotel in Toronto left several data centre customers offline for hours over the weekend. Peer 1 Networks reported that a fire broke out at 2:26 am Sunday in an eighth-floor electrical room at 151 Front Street, the city’s primary telecom hub. The fire broke out in a section of Peer 1 Networks’ colocation facility housing UPS equipment, causing power to be shut off to the seventh and eight floors, and prompting a vigorous response from Toronto emergency services, which dispatched at least 17 fire units to the building.

“There was a fire which was localized to the 802 Suite UPS room within the 151 Front Street Facility,” Peer 1 reported on its forum. “The Fire Department mitigated the fire with dry chemical and CO2 extinguishers. No water was used, and all PEER 1 equipment (with the exception of the UPS), and ALL client equipment is unharmed.” Peer 1 said it was able to bypass the UPS system – which typically is positioned between the utility feed and the data centre – and restore power to the affected areas by 5 am Eastern time Sunday morning.

Source: Data Center Knowledge

Rackspace Hosting expects to issue customer service credits from Monday’s data centre outage of between US$2.5 million and US$3.5 million, the company has announced in an SEC filing.

A series of equipment failures contributed to the power outage at a Rackspace data centre near Dallas, where several parts of the facility lost power. The most significant failure involved a bank of generators that malfunctioned, leaving several computing clusters without backup power. Other failures involved equipment that connects the data centre to its two utility feeds, a UPS system and a transfer switch. The outage affected two of the four phases of data centre space in the facility in Grapevine, Texas.

Source: SEC

Peak 10 opens Cincinnati data centre

Peak 10 has announced that its Cincinnati data centre grand opening attracted more than 200 local business and thought leaders. The opening showcased the enterprise class facility to attendees through interactive guided tours provided by Peak 10 executives.

Attendees of the grand opening event got a firsthand look at Peak 10’s Cincinnati facility, which boasts 24×7 customer access, biometric, card and PIN protected access, redundant network infrastructure, multiple UPS systems and backup generators, and redundant Tier-1 and local Internet access. The data centre also ensures an unparalleled level of stability and facility integrity through a rigorous commissioning process prior to customer installations, which establishes the capability and reliability of the facility’s mission-critical infrastructure.

Source: dBusiness News