The staff that’s entrusted to operate and maintain critical facilities are the most critical and valuable assets there are in the overall scheme of sustained continuous operations.
I had the pleasure of playing golf with Scott Widham, CEO of Alpheus Communications, at a little event we put together with Schneider Electric’s Data Center Solutions Provider business.
As the world of technology continues to evolve around us and the boundaries between network and systems become less defined, systems administrators and network administrators need to evolve their monitoring practices to take on a more application-centered focus, rather than the traditional silos of systems monitoring or network monitoring.
There has been a heated debate around the data center service provider business model: will large centralized data centers that pop up near major fiber hubs or distributed data centers that bring proximity and geographic flexibility dominate the future of the multi-tenant data center industry?
As an owner’s quality assurance program, commissioning verifies and documents that a new data center, including all of its systems and assemblies, meets project requirements.