June 6, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Dedicated hosting provider The Planet (theplanet.com) announced on Tuesday it plans for a $3 million investment in new backup generators for its six data centers.
As part of its initial investment, The Planet has added two new high-performance Cummins generators to its Dallas, Texas data centers for increased backup capacity and redundancy.
In the event of a utility failure, the Dallas data center can continue to operate for 3.5 days without refueling, and even longer if needed with its fuel-delivery contracts. The new generators offer high reliability and will be installed across all of The Planet's data centers.
"Uptime is critical to business operations, and we understand the important role we play in maintaining the IT infrastructure backbone for our more than 22,000 customers," says chairman and CEO Douglas J. Erwin. "The Planet continues to make significant investments that support the more than 45,000 dedicated servers housed across six world-class data centers so that our customers have access to state-of-the-art facilities."
So the generating systems they had before where obviously under powered if they are having to outfit the DL2 location again. I guess they have been misleading clients and investors the last 4+ years telling people the existing systems could handle the entire DC. Which is clearly not the case if the DC has not changed nor the hosts inside it but they still require more generating capacity. posted by: Josepth P Blowsepth | June 06, 2007 11:23PM
The existing generator systems at D2 easily handle the entire facility and have done so, as we have lost utility power a few times in the last 3 months. The new generator and paralelling gear we are adding to D2 is for additional redundancy only and is not to expand the actual capacity of the generator system. posted by: Jeff Lowenberg VP-Facilities The Planet | June 07, 2007 09:54AM
