In the movies and on TV the hero always knows the right thing to do, even when the required knowledge would seem to be just a bit outside his or her purview.
Commissioning, including acceptance testing, is a somewhat rigid process intended to verify and validate that a project delivers what is required and expected.
The market demands on the data center industry seem to push multi-tenant data centers (MTDCs) and enterprise data centers toward higher density computing, efficiency, and increased speed to market.
A long time ago in the mid-1990s, Ken Brill, Jedi Knight, brilliantly created the concept of a “tier system of availability” based primarily on the redundancy level of the facility power and cooling infrastructure, and subsequently founded the Uptime Institute (UI).
If you are not aware of Mission Critical’s webinars then you are really missing out on presentations ranging from temporary cooling solutions to generators to IoT given by industry leaders like Ed Spears, Julius Neudorfer, and Peter Panfil.