With each passing month, our critical infrastructures continue to expand, leaving mission-critical professionals with a greater sense of urgency to institute procedures that ensure efficient communication with first responders while building on the lessons learned from past emergencies.

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Discipline, rigor, experience, training, process driven procedures, and a culture of excellence—that’s what it takes to deliver continuous operations over the life of a critical facility.

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Much has been written about “big data,” but should we be asking whether our industry is missing the boat?

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This March/April issue of Mission Critical includes our second 7x24 Exchange supplement.

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I recently participated in a discussion on LinkedIn about the best, most energy-efficient way to control temperature: either the classic sensor in the return of each individual CRAC/CRAH or supply air either by under-floor sensors or sensors in the cold aisles.

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The problem with mission-critical emergency systems is that failures only occur when the systems are called upon to operate.

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Legendary basketball coach Dean Smith of the University of North Carolina defines coaches as either system or flexible coaches.

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In the Jan/Feb issue of Mission Critical, Zinc Whiskers focused on how the “cloud” operates as an automatically virtualized environment that creates very high power densities in processing areas.

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When the Steel ORCA team started planning, it was our intention of being the “Greenest Data Center on Earth,” and, as a data center/services company, we were in the enviable position of being unrestrained by established corporate policies, legacy designs, or outdated facilities.

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Due to the holiday season and other business imperatives, regular readers of Mission Critical go an extended period of time without seeing their favorite data center magazine at this time of year.

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