2023 August

Mission Critical Magazine

Check out our August 2023 issue featuring the 2023 Top Tier Products award winners. We also look at thermal management solutions for battery energy storage systems, and much more!

2023 Top Tier Products Award Winners

The best in mission critical technology

Amy Al-Katib, CDCDP

August 11, 2023

Mission Critical’s 2023 Top Tier Product Awards showcase the best in data center edge technologies, generators, IT equipment, management systems, power solutions, safety, security, software, thermal management, and UPSs.

Data center energy storage improves resiliency and sustainability

Build a microgrid today to keep the outages away

Scott Childers

August 16, 2023

Rack-level access technologies enhance data center security

There are now ranges of electronic locking, access control devices, and systems designed to protect servers

Sonny Van Ngo

August 15, 2023

Electronic locks are actuated by external access control devices, which validate user credentials and produce a signal that initiates the unlocking cycle.

Site Solutions

Data center pipe dreams come true

An Aquatherm case study

August 14, 2023

Novva data center offers more than just a location. Inside is a cooling system that features Aquatherm PP-RCT piping, which will provide virtually leak-free service for decades to come.

Low-code platforms accelerate government service digitalization

There’s an increased demand for public e-services and a shortage of IT specialists

Michailas Traubas

July 24, 2023

The attitudes of institutional leaders toward return on investment and the flexibility of implemented systems are changing.

QUIZ | Cryptocurrency

Amy Al-Katib, CDCDP

August 8, 2023

What exactly is cryptocurrency, are there different kinds, how do you get it, how do you use it, and what are the risks?

Thermal management solutions for battery energy storage systems

The key to better performance, durability, and safety

Adam Wells

August 10, 2023

The hot market for BESSs is challenged by the basic fact that electrochemical energy storage is notoriously vulnerable to overheating.

A data center industry challenge

Let’s practice sustainability

August 7, 2023

I encourage everyone reading this to practice in all aspects of both their personal and professional lives — practice being healthy, kind, understanding, empathetic, resourceful, etc. But, I'd also like to challenge you to practice being more sustainable.

The digital infrastructure monstrosity

The data center and cryptocurrency industries are married in the court of public opinion

Melissa Reali-Elliott

July 14, 2023

Bitcoin mining is regularly painted in a poor light in the media. This should be an alarm bell for the broader data center industry. Why? Because the issues raised aren’t specific to crypto.

On Demand This course discusses the performance properties of cellular glass insulation ideal for these facilities as well as example assemblies to help achieve redundancy and durability.

EARN: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 0.1 IACET CEU; 1 PDH

Mission Critical Magazine

2023 August

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2023 Top Tier Products Award Winners

Feature Articles