Dave Fanning is executive managing director for the Global Occupier Services business unit of Cushman & Wakefield. He is the specialty practice leader for the Data Center Advisory Group, focused on delivering real estate solutions for mission critical users, owners, and operators by leveraging the full spectrum of services provided by the company.

Data Center Site Selection Quiz

Dave Fanning

March 11, 2020

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A multitude of variables come into play when selecting the right data center location — from the cost of doing business (think taxes, real estate, and power) to network connectivity, latency, regional infrastructure planning, and more. Find out how much you know by taking this site selection quiz from Cushman & Wakefield.

Sensors at the Edge: Seeing the Big Picture While Feeling and Hearing It Too

With the number of edge sites on the rise, it’s critical for you to know what’s going on in the network at any given moment. However, it’s likely there are sites you have never visited. So, if you don’t know exactly what a site looks like, what security measures are in place, or even where it is located, how can you have true visibility into the physical environment? The answer is by having good sensors in place.

Can your CRAC system be specified to deliver free cooling year-round in a Data Center?

One Wilshire building in Los Angeles, one of the most densely connected buildings in the world, houses 450,000 square feet of data center. Organizing the organic growth of disparate cooling equipment was a major concern for its owners, who were working with the engineering team and manufacturers to increase the cooling capacity. The goal was to achieve 4000 tons of scalable cooling, with a target of 50% free cooling. Learn from the experts who completed this project in 2018 — about how they achieved the basis of design for One Wilshire tenants and exceeded the energy efficiency goals of the project by 25%, which is 62 times the amount required by Title 24 in California.

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Mission Critical Magazine

2020 May/June

The May/June issue of Mission Critical explores cooling options and energy-efficient solutions, backup power, and software-defined data centers. It also features a The Optimal Edge special section.

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2020 May/June