The critical facilities industry uses service level agreements, or SLAs, extensively. SLAs vary greatly and are used both internally within corporations, between landlords and tenants—especially within colocation (“colo”) facilities
As I write this it is early July, as we are about to move into the dog days of summer, anticipating the usual issues that seem to appear when cooling systems are pushed to their limits—and sometimes beyond.
ASHRAE’s 2011 Expanded Thermal Guidelines has caused a lot of controversy and confused many in the data center industry. Although ASHRAE released the information a year ago in May 2011, it is still highly debated and sometimes misinterpreted.
Kevin Heslin, editor of Mission Critical, elicited some interesting opinions about the state of the data center industry from Cyrus Izzo in this short interview.
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.