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A pair of Nasa astronauts ventured out on their second spacewalk in under a week to complete a four-year effort to modernise the International Space Station’s power grid.

“We’re proud that our Series 4000 generator sets will help Space DC meet the special demands of the location and ensure the highest levels of reliability for their customers.”

Chris Cutler of Riello UPS explains how UPS remote monitoring offers data centre operators the added reassurance of a ‘virtual’ power engineer onsite, 24 hours a day.

Power protection is not just about the UPS, it’s about your plan should there be a power outage, writes Louis McGarry, sales and marketing director at CENTIEL UK Ltd, explains

A UPS failure was behind the data centre outage at Equinix’s IBX LD8 data centre on Tuesday that caused network issues for a raft of customers.

The former Telecity facility is home to the London Internet Exchange (LINX), one of the world’s largest Internet Exchanges with over 700 members including ISPs such as BT and Virgin Media.

Issues at the London data centre were first reported around 4am Tuesday morning and impacted companies including Giganet, Epsilon, SiPalto, EX Networks, Fast2Host, ICUK.net, and Evoke Telecom apologised to impacted customers throughout the day on social media.