Disaster planning can't be taken lightly in the data center -- the contents are too valuable to lose. Having a good plan in case of a fire is critical to saving the hardware and the information stored within. In order to preserve your critical assets planning and equipment must work together to ensure that when disaster strikes not everything will be lost. Presented here are the top five fire protection tips that we have gathered over the past few months.
- Seven steps to data center fire planning
- What are the recommended standards for fire protection of data tapes?
- Water versus gas-based data center fire suppression
- Limited combustible cabling could thwart possible regulation nightmare
- Halon or FM-2000?
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This was first published in May 2006