Black Friday is one of the retail industry’s biggest days. It’s the unofficial start of the Christmas shopping period and Americans, sated from Thanksgiving, go into a retail frenzy. So imagine the headache when a major data centre – which processes millions of retail transactions each day – had to upgrade its cooling system during this time.

Without full data centre availability, retailers wouldn’t be able to process transactions. Every 10 minutes of downtime could mean losses of more than $200 million. Plus, downtime would deliver nationwide notoriety – for all the wrong reasons. The facility needed a temporary system for climate control over the holiday period.