Mission Critical Magazine

July/August 2019

Mission Critical’s 2019 July/August issue focuses on green data centers, intelligent power management, cooling options, and another installment of our State of the Mission Critical Industry roundtable article.

Green And Clean, Meet Lean And Mean

Data centers find sustainability and operational efficiency can help each other happen.

Dennis Schmidt, CDCDP

August 5, 2019

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The green data center market is forecast to grow from $43.24 billion USD in 2018 to $147.88 billion in 2024.

The Case For Software-Defined Power

Intelligent power reporting vs. intelligent power delivery.

Carrie Goetz, RCDD, N TS, CDCS, CDCP

August 12, 2019

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For those who know me, I have long stated that waste is abundant when it comes to power and provisioning in data centers as the IT load capabilities for failover and self-healing are rarely examined or included in the power supply design.

Defining Mission Critical

Fifty years later: Apollo 11 — from the Earth to the moon — and back.

Julius Neudorfer

August 12, 2019

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In my last column I discussed the new space race by Amazon and SpaceX to launch tens of thousands of satellites to provide internet access from anywhere on earth.

Powering Edge Data Centers

On Demand An edge data facility is still a data center. One still and must consider design, construction, and operational habits that result in high levels of system availability, maintainability, and resiliency. The disaggregation that edge poses will distribute compute and storage assets, and the challenge will be placing edge assets into sufficiently robust facilities or enclosures outside of traditional data centers where those local solutions can equally sustain those IT operations and systems.

Planning For Power Density Challenges

Load densities in data centers continue to increase. In response, designers and operators need to get creative about how to accommodate power density challenges and how to reject excess heat. What operational modifications can be made or what infrastructure additions need to be provided to address these increasing load densities and the ability to cool at increasing densities?

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