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Where and how to operate a data center
A data center’s location is the hardest decision to reverse, and its operations are what most determine its real availability. Discover the keys to choosing the right site and building reliable operations.
Cool to Avoid Failure
Heat works silently: it raises temperatures, causes errors and shuts down equipment without warning. Explore the complete guide to data center cooling: psychrometrics, cooling technologies, free cooling and airflow management.
When the Data Center Goes Down
Human error causes 25% of unplanned outages. UPS systems cause another 25%. Discover the full anatomy of a failure: root causes, the chain of impact, and how to keep fire, a cyberattack or a poorly executed procedure from bringing your critical infrastructure to a halt.
The Data Center's Invisible Enemy
Dust and corrosive gases cause silent failures that compromise your infrastructure’s availability. Learn how to detect and control them before they cause damage.
Thresholds and Alarms Guide
Data centers require constant monitoring of critical variables such as temperature, power and humidity to ensure service continuity. Thresholds and alarms help you detect anomalies early and act before failures impact operations.
Retrofitting en Data Center
A guide to modernizing data centers through retrofitting to improve availability, efficiency and capacity without stopping operations. It covers risks, technologies, sustainability and execution best practices.
Digital Transformation and the Technology Infrastructure of the Future
This guide offers you a clear map of the cloud, security and key trends so that your business stops merely operating and starts leading.
A practical guide to DCiM integrations
A standalone DCiM already adds value, but a connected DCiM is when it becomes a true automation tool for your Data Center: a living component that receives signals, puts them into context and turns them into action.
The Risks of Implementing a DCiM and How to Mitigate Them
Implementing DCiM isn’t just a technology project. It’s a change in how you understand and manage your infrastructure, and like any significant change, it brings doubts, resistance and risks.
The Future of Robotics in Data Center Maintenance
Robotics is revolutionising Data Centres: greater efficiency, security and autonomy to ensure the future of digital infrastructure.
Data Center Staff Roles
One of the things we see most often in these environments is that roles aren’t always clearly defined. And that ends up causing problems that could be avoided.
EED: Sustainability in the Data Center
Do you want to know how the new European EED regulation affects your Data Centre? We give you a simple guide to the requirements you need to comply with that regulation.
Green Deal in European Data Centres
European regulations establish new standards and obligations for data centres with the aim of improving energy efficiency and promoting sustainability across the entire European Union.
DCiM: Your Partner on the Road to ISO 50001 Certification
In this ebook, we discuss how DCiM and the ISO 50001 standard can transform your IT infrastructure. Learn how to maximize energy efficiency and comply with environmental regulations.
Asset Identification with NFC technology
We explain how NFC technology helps us manage and control all our IT assets in the Data Center, thanks to its security, ease of use and versatility.
Technology maturity model for the data center
Technical description of an Industry 4.0 consultancy service focused on the management, design, operation, monitoring and maintenance of data centers, based on their maturity level.
Data Center Failures
Now is the time to optimize and automate your critical infrastructure and prepare it for potential outages. Investing in this today could ensure your Data Center's sustainability tomorrow.
Automation: The Solution to Data Center Staff Shortages
The incorporation of new technologies and market demands are making critical infrastructures be forced to rethink their business model, renew their assets and..
Equipment naming conventions
Good management of nomenclature is vital in order to establish useful communication and to facilitate communication for all those involved. There is no path to automation without the standardisation of names within each company.
Data Center Cabling
Data centers are critical, complex infrastructures that require multi-vendor solutions and a wide range of skills to manage. They must have very clear objectives that minimize any risk.
Infrastructure Migration in Data Centres
We present a practical guide that demonstrates the effectiveness of critical infrastructure management technologies, in DCiM data centres, in infrastructure migration processes.
UNE 50600 Standard
We present a practical guide for understanding the European EN/UNE 50600 standard in the field of critical infrastructure management..
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Operational Sustainability of the Uptime Institute
This document aims to present a practical guide for understanding the American Operational Sustainability standard of the Uptime Institute.