This issue of Mission Critical takes a look at cabling in the data center and mission critical facility.

Future Facilities North America has launched a significant update to its predictive modeling suite, 6SigmaDC. Release 8 delivers predictive modeling of data center environments five to six times faster than the previous versions.

Honeywell has released the availability of a universal replacement Low/Medium Torque Actuator for fire and smoke dampers.

SoniTech’s NDT pipe inspection service uses ultrasonic localized guided wave testing to test pipes in mission critical facilities for corrosion buildup

Snake Tray has introduced the hand bendable Mega Snake to bend around obstacles in buildings.

So here we are at the end of another year — by the time you read this you may have already completed your 2014 plans and budget requests (as well as your fallback budgets and plans).

Many corporations and other large operations that previously would only consider owning and operating their own data centers are now considering moving at least parts of their enterprise into collocation sites.

Over the last year, our road trip has evaluated the six steps in creating an effective TCO model to build or lease a new data center.

Berk-Tek Leviton Technologies has announced an end-to-end fiber optic cabling system for data center networks.

Many data centers, including most built before 2001, are at risk of outstripping their power and cooling capacities.