subject: Do You Need to Protect Your Computer Rooms From Fire? by:Alan Benney [print this page] If you are in business can you honestly say that you are fully protected in the event of a fire? Discover secrets today to why you should not let fire suppression take a back seat and how it could save you going out of business.
The protection of data centres from fire is essential, however not to many business owners are aware of this.
The facts are that 43% of businesses that suffer with a significant fire never reopen for business. This begs the question, why is it an issue that in many cases it can take a back seat?
Its understandable in business there are always expenses to be considered and the cost of fire suppression is often overlooked. It is a proven fact that this is a big mistake, many business owners have realised this unfortunately after the event.
If you have a data centre of any substantial size then you will have an air conditioning system in place to control the temperature. The reason for the air conditioning is data centres create a tremendous amount of heat. In the event of the air conditioning system fails to function this could catch fire at any time, and the results could be devastating all data could be lost in just a few minutes which has taken years to build.
So what is the conclusion we have to arrive at to evade this?
Then answer is simple and that is to get protected with a fire suppression system. It's remarkable that the word fire suppression is under a misapprehension, and not many individuals have a clue in this regard.
Water and computers are not a good combination this is why the word suppression is to be taken note of. In order to restrain a fire it is essential to decrease the oxygen in the atmosphere by releasing gas through a valve using extreme pressure.
The gases used in these situations can vary from man made gasses which is FM200, this would be described as a synthetic gas Other gases used could be natural gasses such as IG55 which is made up of 50% Argon and 50% Nitrogen.
Let's consider where fire suppression would be affective and is widely used.
Primarily data centres and computer rooms are top of the list, and the main reason is this cannot be protected by water, because that would not be described as protection, all that would achieve would be to extinguish the fire when it is underway.
Further areas to be protected with fire suppression are art galleries, museums, antique centres, power generation plants just to name a few.
Many people are concerned to the safety of human life when the gas is discharged. The facts are the with regard to IG55 this is made up of the air we breath so it is perfectly safe. Having said that so is FM200 and has been in use for the past 15 years in 65 nations throughout the world in a human environment.
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