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.

Backup Power For Data Servers

Explore the different options.

Ilyas Ayub

August 19, 2019

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Just as we need backup power for our sump pump systems to ensure our basements do not flood during a power outage, data servers need backup power to ensure they do not lose data during any loss of power.

Mission Critical Staff

State of the Mission Critical Industry, Part 3

Mission Critical Magazine’s ongoing deep dive into the mission critical industry.

Herb Villa Carrie Goetz Jake Ring

September 16, 2019

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What is happening in the state of the mission critical industry? In this ongoing feature, we ask industry leaders their thoughts on where the industry is headed and what will happen along the way.

Meeting Cooling Challenges In The Mission Critical Facility

To achieve energy efficiency and sustainability, dynamic data center workloads require a dynamic cooling solution.

Andrew Schaap

August 21, 2019

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As anyone in our business is all too fully aware, it takes an enormous amount of electricity to cool a data center.

Flywheels And Data Center Power

Lowering data center carbon footprint by greening the power protection infrastructure.

John Jeter

September 2, 2019

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The enormous demand for data storage is driving exponential data center growth in markets around the globe.

Securing 5G Infrastructure

Use electronic access control for physical security management.

Mike Fahy

August 26, 2019

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The 5G era of mobile computing and communications is rapidly moving forward. 5G stands for the fifth generation of wireless infrastructure — a massive upscale of network technology.

The Case For Software-Defined Power

Intelligent power reporting vs. intelligent power delivery.

Carrie Goetz

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.

The Critical Facilities Labor Market

A culture shift is needed.

Terry L. Rodgers CPE, CPMP

August 26, 2019

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There is a crisis developing in the critical facilities labor market. The available pool of qualified and experienced talent is not keeping up with the demand.

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

New Date 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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