Markets for the product include the manufacturing, engineering, utility, physical security, facility management, contracting and construction sectors.

There are several approaches to protecting a BMS from downtime and disasters — using fault-tolerant (FT), high-availability (HA) solutions, and disaster recovery (DR) solutions — but determining which approach is best depends upon multiple considerations.

This release features a new enterprise summary page that displays enterprise summary and facility comparison information with colorful, easy-to-understand graphs and icons.

Richard Zbin, facilities director at the Kaiser Permanente Silver Spring Data Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, was named Mission Critical’s 2019 Facility Manager of the Year, and three honorable mentions were recognized for their award-winning qualities. 

Six years ago, Richard Zbin was asked to “fill in” as facility manager while his company searched for a permanent replacement. Today, he is the proud winner of the 2019 Facility Manager of the Year contest. So how did he get from point A to point B?

I am really excited this month to introduce Mission Critical Magazine’s edge data center supplement, “The Optimal Edge”. Edge data centers, according to Sunbird, meet four different criteria.

Matt Spencer, chief technology officer for Cologix in Denver, has been named the 2017 Mission Critical magazine Facility Manager of the Year.

Jim Serafin, facility manager of the Computational Facilities Complex (CFC) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named 2016 Mission Critical Facility Manager of the Year Runner-Up.

Daryl Hoelscher has been named 2016 Mission Critical Facility Manager of the Year. Daryl is a data center manager with Digital Realty based in Richardson, TX.