Mission Critical Magazine

2018 November/December

Read the November and December 2018 issue of Mission Critical, cover story of Putting Commissioning Lessons Learned Into Practice In Real Time, and our 2018 Facility Manager of the Year and much more.

Putting Data Center Commissioning Lessons Learned Into Practice In Real Time

Commissioning large, high-profile data centers offers a unique opportunity to get it right even while getting it wrong

Joshua J. Gepner

December 3, 2018

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Commissioning (Cx) one piece of equipment, or even one system in a data center, can be a fairly straightforward process.

Data Center Chiller TCO

There are many factors to consider when deciding between air or water cooled chillers, which can impact TCO and swing the decision.

Seemant Sharma Mukul Anand

December 10, 2018

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To understand the sensitivity of different parameters — such as capital cost, power cost, water cost, and weather — consider the model of a typical 1,200-ton plant for a data center application operating 24/7 in four cities, representing different weather profiles:

Edward Dirnberger Named Mission Critical Magazine 2018 Facility Manager of the Year

Past winners include a who’s who of leaders from the mission critical facility industry.

December 3, 2018

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Edward Dirnberger, IT facilities manager for a global automotive manufacturer, was named Mission Critical Magazine’s 2018 Facility Manager of the Year.

It’s Not Easy Being A Green Data Center

Will renewable energy at two cents help?

Julius Neudorfer

December 10, 2018

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Energy efficient, renewable, sustainable, carbon neutral, and of course the catch-all, going green — all make for great sound bites, but how do we really quantify how well we are doing in the age of gigawatt scale data centers?

On Demand This webinar will present the mechanical and electrical options for on-site energy storage for your mission critical environment. These options include grid-level battery storage, thermal energy storage, zero-net energy, solar, and critical power stored energy.

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.

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