Have you been paying attention to the media’s coverage of the accelerating migration of enterprise and internet data center operations into colocation facilities and to the news about the roll out of more and more data centers across the country in service of the internet?
Commissioning is a quality control process performed by a team with representatives from all the major entities involved in a construction or upgrade project.
Eighteen thousand feet of welded steel HVAC piping; 30,000 weld inches; 60 tractor-trailer loads of piping delivered to the jobsite: truly, building out a mechanical system for a large-scale data center can be a mammoth undertaking.
While it can be argued that not every business needs to be fully operational 100% of the time, for public safety agencies that are in the “business” of serving the public and saving lives, the need to be on 24/7 couldn’t be more true.
Data centers are built to support operations that are highly available and reliable, and security is a key element of data center operations to help ensure critical operations are protected.