More and more frequently, multi-tenant data centers are becoming completely service neutral in order to boost their performance and their attractiveness to potential customers.
In the movies and on TV the hero always knows the right thing to do, even when the required knowledge would seem to be just a bit outside his or her purview.
Commissioning, including acceptance testing, is a somewhat rigid process intended to verify and validate that a project delivers what is required and expected.
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).