An extremely important aspect of the physical protection of data collected in each server room (or data center), is the question of adequate security facilities before the host fire. Of course, modern offices are equipped with more or less advanced detection systems and extinguishing the fire, but, because of the extremely important function servers, it should be equipped with an additional system of fighting, which will ensure the safety of its business data - as a result of their possible losses, the position company on the market may be far-reaching destabilization.

Fighting systems, depending on their destination can be divided into three subgroups: the failure of the systems of fire, anti passive fire protection and detection systems and extinguishing the fire (for R. Pawlak, "structural wiring network. Theory and Practice."). These first, to isolate and prevent the spread of the fire in the room (or the whole building), are used only in the largest serwerowniach which the area is still at least hundreds of square meters. Smaller premises server as a considerably more compact structurally, does not require this kind of technology.

Passive anti-fire systems are used primarily to prevent an outbreak of fire or curtail its effects. Security in this category might include, above all, fire-resistant walls and doors, which provide one of the dozens of facilities minute resistance to external fire performance. In a similar manner, non-paint work, which paints both internal and external walls servers.

Detection systems consist of detectors which are designed to detect the fire as soon as possible, setting up a fire-fighting equipment and transmission signal to fire the fire service.

Firefighting systems installed in the premises of sensitive electronic equipment must be specially equipped to extinguish fires in this type of environment. To avoid losses caused by fire after the fighting, in, they use such substances, which do not destroy electronic equipment. Most are called. Inert gases such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen, or Argonite halogenopodobne hydrocarbons. They act in two ways; indent into the room of CO2, nitrogen or argonitu lowers the concentration of oxygen to a level which makes it impossible to sustain the fire, while the hydrocarbons halogenopodobne absorb heat from the combustion process, with an outcome that is exactly the same as in the case of the first group of gases. Currently, the most widely used means of extinguishing agent is in serwerowniach gas HFC-227ea (FM-200) - are fully indifferent to the environment and safe for electronics, hydrocarbon gas halogenopodobny. Installations using this type of gas are relatively expensive at the truth, but also regarded as the most efficient and safest equipment accumulated in the server room.