Target Participants
Designed for data center professionals operating at the core of IT, Facilities, and Data Center Operations. Ideal for those driving high-availability and manageability in data centers, including:
- Data Center Directors and Managers
- Facility Heads, Operations Leaders, and Floor Managers
- Engineers specializing in Networks and Systems
- Data Center Sales Strategists and Consulting Pioneers
Eligibility
While newcomers are more than welcome, professionals with a minimum of one to two years immersed in data center or facility ecosystems will find the course particularly enriching.
Course Advantages
Site Selection: Identify prime locales for mission-critical data centers aligned with both immediate demands and prospective growth.
Comprehensive Setup: Understand and implement critical components ensuring maximum uptime in your data center environment.
Industry Standards: Navigate and leverage globally recognized standards for optimized operations.
Tech Proficiency: Master technologies integral to the data center: UPS, fire suppression, cooling paradigms, monitoring mechanisms, cabling standards, and more. Harness these to maximize uptime cost-effectively.
Electrical Mastery: Scrutinize and fortify your electrical distribution framework to minimize the risk of expensive operational halts.
Cooling Excellence: Augment your data center’s cooling prowess, marrying traditional techniques with the avant-garde to address tomorrow’s cooling challenges.
Network Architecture: Design networks that epitomize reliability and scalability. Ensure installation is complemented with rigorous testing.
Precision Monitoring: Cultivate data center monitoring practices ensuring critical insights reach the right stakeholders.
Data Protection: Institute stringent security protocols, both procedural and technological, to guard your organization’s invaluable data assets.
Hardware Acumen: Choose racks and components attuned to ICT equipment and cooling imperatives.
Lighting Mastery: Determine optimal illumination levels tailored to diverse zones within the data center.
Fire Mitigation: Integrate sophisticated fire detection and suppression mechanisms, ensuring airtight safety.
In essence, this course delivers a laser-focused curriculum for professionals seeking to amplify their data center expertise, maintaining the highest standards of operational excellence.
The Role and Significance of Data Centers
- Understanding the critical nature of data centers and primary causes of downtime.
Best Practices and Standards in Data Centers
- Adhering to industry benchmarks for optimal operations.
Location, Building, and Designing Data Centers
- Selecting ideal locations and avoiding common mistakes.
- Key components for an efficient data center and support facilities.
Raised Floor and Suspended Ceiling Considerations
- Definitions: uniform, concentrated, and rolling loads.
- Relevant standards and guidelines.
- Grounding essentials: Signal Reference Grid and rack grounding.
- Disability compliance.
- Utilizing suspended ceilings: requirements and benefits.
Lighting Essentials
- Adhering to lighting standards.
- Types and placement of light fixtures.
- Emergency lighting and power supply provisions.
Power Infrastructure
- Tracing power layout from generation to individual racks.
- Delving into ATS and STS systems.
- Mastering redundancy techniques.
- Distinguishing between three-phase and single-phase.
- Inside computer room power distribution.
- Evaluating power cabling vs. bus bar trunking.
- Grounding nuances.
- Quality standards for power.
- Power calculations for data centers.
- Generator essentials.
- UPS systems: types, selection, and energy efficiency.
- Battery selections and testing protocols.
- Thermo-graphics and Renewable Energy Factor insights.
Electro Magnetic Fields (EMF)
- Understanding electrical and magnetic fields.
- Sources and impacts of EMF on health and equipment.
- (H)EMP nuances.
- Shielding against EMF: best practices.
Equipment Rack Essentials
- Standards and criteria for selecting racks.
- Incorporating security measures.
- Power strip options.
Cooling Systems and Strategies
- Maintaining optimal temperature and humidity.
- Defining sensible and latent heat.
- Precision vs. comfort cooling.
- Different air conditioning technologies.
- Cooling techniques: raised floor vs. traditional.
- Air conditioner placements and potential limitations.
- Enhancing cooling: containment and liquid immersion.
- Advanced cooling: Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage (STER).
Water Supply Essentials
- Recognizing the significance and applications.
- Techniques for backup water supply.
Building Scalable Network Infrastructure
- Role of a structured cabling system.
- Planning and considerations.
- Unpacking copper and fiber cable technologies.
- ANSI/TIA-942 cabling standards.
- Testing, verification, and network redundancy.
- Connectivity between buildings.
- Requirements for network monitoring.
Fire Safety and Protection
- Fire suppression standards.
- Employing detection systems.
- Total flooding fire suppression techniques: pros and cons.
- Use of handheld extinguishers.
- Safety signage and best practices.
Physical Security and Safety Measures
- Integrating physical security measures.
- Ensuring safety in the facility.
Auxiliary Systems Overview
- Monitoring needs for data centers.
- EMS, BMS, and DCIM systems.
- Techniques for detecting water leaks.
- Essential alarm systems.