April 2021 | Mission Critical Magazine

Mission Critical Magazine

2021 April

Learn more about power trends and electrical safety in this issue of Mission Critical.

Colocation

How to Evaluate Colocation Proposals

Part 5 in a six-part series

Kirk Killian

April 15, 2021

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At its most fundamental level, evaluating colocation proposals involves comparing providers’ responses against your organizational needs, as defined during the scoping process, and usually involves confirming four fundamental questions.

Cover Story

Always-On Electrical Assets Require Continuous Monitoring

How electrical test companies can adapt to meet customers’ evolving needs

William Higinbotham

April 16, 2021

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Electrical test companies that evolve can still find plenty of opportunities if they take the initiative to start designing, installing, and maintaining monitoring systems.

Arc Flash Hazard and Risk Management Considerations

When working on energized equipment, personnel should know the magnitude of the hazard

Fred Toepfer

April 14, 2021

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Arc flash — in and around a data center — is a potential risk to personnel, system performance, reputation, and the bottom line.

Data Center Design and Construction Outlook

A prospective to look forward to

Paul E. Schlattman

April 8, 2021

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Typically, edge will be installed from two to 10 rack installations operating at 7 to 25 kW per rack. Whereas engineering companies have been designing for campus installations with 15 engineers per project, now the same 15 engineers will be installing 25 locations within urban and remote regions.

Site Solutions

ServerFarm Calls i3 Solutions for Award-Winning Data Center Modernization Project

The project was completed in five months

April 13, 2021

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The 120,000-square-foot, 6-MW Lon1 data center located in Feltham, London, was acquired in March 2018, and, within five and a half months, i3 had completed the modernization.

Writing on the Edge | ‘Cryptocurrently’

A 'bit' on BFSI trends

Amy Al-Katib, CDCDP

April 12, 2021

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It’s pretty safe to assume that more and more BFSI companies are going to start looking to colo providers for hybrid cloud solutions as capacity continues to increase and the demand for instant access requires additional edge sites to be deployed.

Pushing the Sustainability Envelope

Carbon-neutral data centers by 2030?

Julius Neudorfer

April 7, 2021

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While the PUE metric clearly defines the measurement process for facility efficiency (thanks to The Green Grid!), it represents only a portion of sustainability in the overall data center eco-structure.