Some New York Rangers fans and Washington Capitals fans recently relearned an old lesson: Don’t leave a game before it is over

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I just finished packing my bags for the Uptime Institute’s Symposium 2012.

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TIA 942 was the first data center cabling standard in the U.S. Many countries either follow or at least use its guidance.

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We have become commoditized in some of our purchasing decisions and very picky in others. Some companies sole source networking gear for instance, then buy the least expensive infrastructure to run it on, and open spec everything else with the least expensive winning the business.

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Some years ago, several conference organizers considered organizing discussion practices comparing west coast/east coast data center operations and practices.

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How do you know that your people are thinking risk mitigation when they perform tasks in the facility?

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Though data center operators talk in terms of reliability, Tier levels, energy efficiency, and cost, most often these conversations take a back seat to site selection.

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I read an article in the marketing newsletter from WiredRE dated, April 20, 2012 titled, “It’s Criticality Dummy” basically citing that aspect of the data center as the most important driver for data center management and measurement.

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I have been digesting the latest vicious assault that Greenpeace has made on the data-centre industry - with their naming and shaming of the social-network operators and their, so called, ‘dirty data’.

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Conversations this week and last with Dave Schirmacher of Digital Realty Trust, Chris Crosby of Compass Datacenters, and Terry Rennaker of Skanska, among others, have convinced me of two things.

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