Patent 9141370 was granted and assigned to Google on September, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and apparatus are provided for updating software one or more control devices in a data center. According to the method and apparatus a data center is outfitted with a plurality of control devices responsible for controlling the operation of a data center component. An update server is configured to update software running one of the plurality of control devices whenever software running on another one of the plurality of control devices is updated.