The Institute for Data Center Professionals scheduled three courses required for its Associate Certificate in Data Center Facilities Management

A conference presenter recently shared an alarming statistic which served to validate a serious challenge many critical facilities owners have described over the last five years. For every seven open critical facilities positions in the United States, only one candidate is actively looking for a position.

As I write this column it is only a few days before my daughter’s wedding.

Since energy efficiency numbers for the data center facility infrastructure have improved so much over the last few years and have begun to approach the perfect PUE of 1.00, the pressure to improve has moved to the IT side of the equation.

Cannon Technologies’ has released its Incremental T4 Modular Datacentre — a complete external grade data center building that can be almost any size or shape

Polargy, Inc. has added the PolarPlex P2 sliding door to its suite of data center containment solutions.

Rackwise, Inc. announced that the company has executed a license agreement with Sandia National Laboratories to install and deploy Rackwise DCiM X in Sandia’s multiple data centers located at its principal facilities.