The International Data Center Authority (IDCA) brings together the world's existing standards and best practices to establish guidelines for the design, build and operation of Data Centers throughout their full life-cycle.



IDCA is focused on Tiering, Standardization, Certification of Data Center Designs, Certification of Data Center Builds, Certification of approved Data Center Auditors and Certification of Data Center Infrastructure…

Servers haven’t changed much in recent years. This may be a common misperception, but it’s a huge misperception.

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Hiring the right data center manager is critical for customer acquisition and retention. Thorough candidate interviews with several members of your management team are indispensible. Also, making sure you have two to three positive industry references will improve your chances of getting the best candidate for this important customer-facing position. Here are seven areas to consider when hiring a data center manager.…

We hope you like the look of the new features that allow you to easily find & connect with industry subject matter experts.  This is partial view of what you get if you search for SMEs on the network.  

If the 'expert' in question…

Data center operators face many and constant issues requiring persistent attention, great solutions, and necessary relationships to facilitate those solutions.

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Have a problem and need some 'expert' advice? But where do you find experts with the specific expertise and experience you need? .... and how do you assess if they are any good?

Sometimes your just looking for…

Data centers are undergoing a tremendous evolution in an effort to improve infrastructure efficiency, flexibility and cost-effectiveness, as well as to streamline cloud computing  and high performance computing (HPC) services. Key trends include I/O consolidation, server virtualization, integration of higher speed Ethernet, and convergence of Internet storage and HPC traffic over a unified Ethernet network.



Testing next-generation data center switches, servers, CNAs (…

I have been in the IT Service Industry for 25 years and I am still surprised on how many articles I have read regarding Independent Service Organizations / TPM’s that continue to only emphasize saving clients 30-60% on hardware service contracts for IBM, Dell, EMC, Cisco, HP, etc.



This type of selling and marketing was pretty effective 10 years ago due to the extreme costs the manufactures were charging for service. Typical scenarios from a service company would be to obtain a…

I have been in the IT Service Industry for 25 years and I am still surprised on how many articles I have read regarding Independent Service Organizations / TPM’s that continue to only emphasize saving clients 30-60% on hardware service contracts for IBM, Dell, EMC, Cisco, HP, etc.



This type of selling and marketing was pretty effective 10 years ago due to the extreme costs the manufactures were charging for service. Typical scenarios from a service company would be to obtain a…

As a mission critical systems/facilities designer the last 20 years, I have found that most of the time (my earliest designs) my approach was as an "expert" on HOW the facility/system MUST operate. As many proffesionals that start designing I assumed that I Knew everything, but the reality crashed very quickly against my position, then I understood that for doing an efficient but more than that an effectiveness design I should gather those people that really new on each subsystem involved in…