The market demands on the data center industry seem to push multi-tenant data centers (MTDCs) and enterprise data centers toward higher density computing, efficiency, and increased speed to market.
A long time ago in the mid-1990s, Ken Brill, Jedi Knight, brilliantly created the concept of a “tier system of availability” based primarily on the redundancy level of the facility power and cooling infrastructure, and subsequently founded the Uptime Institute (UI).
If you are not aware of Mission Critical’s webinars then you are really missing out on presentations ranging from temporary cooling solutions to generators to IoT given by industry leaders like Ed Spears, Julius Neudorfer, and Peter Panfil.
In part one of this series, I highlighted the first five of what I think are the top 10 underutilized or less understood data center security best practices.
If you look at the evolution of critical facilities you will see a fairly consistent increase in complexities as the requirements and expectation of sustaining continuous operations became more and more demanding.