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Selecting the right design and construction team for any facility is crucial but even more so for a data center. But the buck does not stop when the building is up. The human factor in maintaining reliability and availability in Data Centers (as reported in Schneider Electric white paper) is equally important. After all, downtime can cost your company thousands of $$$ per hour so better pay attention to properly organize the Operational phase. Top 10 mistakes listed below: Big Mistake #1: Not including your operations team in facility design Big Mistake #2: Relying too much on data center design Big Mistake #3: Failure to correctly address the ...

Attended an interesting conference focused on Data Centers from 11/11to 11/14 in Phoenix with over 700 attendees. Many presentations focused on facilities improvement and reducing the energy consumption of Data Centers (new and existing). Hot aisle/cold aisle, economizers, building in cold climates, selecting more efficient systems and predicting IT demand were all topics of interest. With data centers consuming vast amounts of power and water it is critical to engage knowledge teams to optimize the building solution. Data is getting bigger (you heard of BIG DATA) and consumers want immediate access. These are primary drivers for the growth of servers ...

Here's a presentation Keith Perske and I made last night at the December Chapter meeting for the Northern California Chapter. Click on the arrow on the bottom in the middle- and keep clicking. It takes a second to get ready; It's not your father's powerpoint....

Currently, Cisco is embarking on deploying all go forward projects leveraging over 8 years of research/test/pilots and learnings. My questions is who else in the large scale enterprise level is deploying such projects ( shared/mobile/integrating collaborative technology) ? What lessons are being learned and how are they building scalable, repeatable standards with a continuous improvement/feedback look in them. If you are interested I can send the latest Cisco customer testimonial/video of who our Next Gen Workplace is increasing productivity, talent attraction/retention and building on collaboration. Peggy Stritch, Sr Manager, Workplace Research ...