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Optimizing Periodicity in Preventative Maintenance Scheduling
Read more: Optimizing Periodicity in Preventative Maintenance SchedulingPeriodicity and its Challenges Welcome to our last blog in our three-part blog series, where we have been discussing key points of Preventative Maintenace (PM) programs. In this blog, we’ll be discussing how preventative maintenance is cyclical by nature, meaning that the work being performed is completed at specific intervals. These intervals are referred to… Read More
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International Data Center Day: Empowering Tomorrow’s Data Center Leaders
Read more: International Data Center Day: Empowering Tomorrow’s Data Center LeadersAscent is excited to be sponsoring the 2024 International Data Center Day on March 20. This day, powered by 7×24 Exchange International, is intended “to create awareness of the data center industry and to inspire the next generation of talent” and provides the industry an opportunity to demonstrate what data centers are, why they are… Read More
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Preventative Maintenance: Uniting Engineering Teams
Read more: Preventative Maintenance: Uniting Engineering TeamsWelcome to our second blog of preventative maintenance (PM) three-part blog series, where we will dive into how to unite engineering teams for optimal performance. Preventative maintenance is often based chiefly on manufacturer recommendations. Thus, PM programs within a facility often represent an amalgam of various manufacturer recommendations. Here, the limitations lie in the fact… Read More
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Preventative Maintenance: Synthesizing Critical Data
Read more: Preventative Maintenance: Synthesizing Critical DataWelcome to our latest three-part blog series, where we delve into the depths of mission critical preventative maintenance (PM). Throughout this series, we will provide simple, actionable ways to improve current-state maintenance programs. First up — data. When crafting preventative maintenance (PM) plans, the more data that is available, the better. However, a lack of… Read More
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2023 – An Eventful Year for Ascent
Read more: 2023 – An Eventful Year for AscentIt may not be easy to tell from the outside looking in, but there’s a buzz of excitement in the hallways of Ascent’s corporate office these days, as 2023 promises to be a big year for our company. First off, there’s the upcoming Pacific Telecommunications Council’s annual conference in Hawaii, PTC’23, which takes place from Jan.… Read More
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Preparing Data Centers and Mission Critical Facilities for Emergency Events
Read more: Preparing Data Centers and Mission Critical Facilities for Emergency EventsIn a world that’s always on, data center operational readiness is vital. According to meteorological records, there’s been a consistent rise in weather-related disasters since 1980. Extreme weather can take place just about anywhere, with hurricanes, heat waves, ice and snowstorms increasing in frequency. If a natural disaster strikes your region, how prepared is your operations… Read More
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DCIM for Infrastructure, DCOM for Data Center Portfolios
Read more: DCIM for Infrastructure, DCOM for Data Center PortfoliosIn our recent blog about workflows and improving operational reliability in data centers, we made the statement: “While DCIM and other monitoring packages have taken great strides in providing real-time, current-state information, they aren’t designed to help manage your equipment portfolio.” We’d like to use this blog to provide a little more support for our… Read More
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How Do You Improve Your Data Center Workflow?
Read more: How Do You Improve Your Data Center Workflow?While uptime is a given, the challenge in daily data center operations is seldom the equipment itself, but rather the management of workflows designed to ensure its proper operation. In some ways, the CRAH units and UPS system run themselves. But to ensure that they continue to do so day after day means managing the… Read More
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Key Definitions for Understanding Asset Evaluations, Pt 2
Read more: Key Definitions for Understanding Asset Evaluations, Pt 2Particularly in the mission-critical industry, predictive spending is preferable to a break/fix approach; furthermore, managing to known risks is the key to uptime and reliability. Here we conclude a two-part series on the importance of understanding – and truly evaluating –each mission-critical asset in your portfolio. In the first blog, we focused on six ways we… Read More
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Key Definitions for Understanding Asset Evaluations, Pt 1
Read more: Key Definitions for Understanding Asset Evaluations, Pt 1In a recently released whitepaper “Beyond Current State: Asset Evaluation for Better Capital Planning” we argue that understanding both the condition and the criticality of your data-center infrastructure is necessary for making the most informed capital-investment decisions. Yet, many operators are challenged when it comes to being able to plan for future growth or investment. Here we… Read More
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Navigating the Supply Chain with Better Capital Planning
Read more: Navigating the Supply Chain with Better Capital PlanningToday’s supply chain issues and delays are a humble reminder to all data center project managers and critical facility managers that nothing can be taken for granted. Even prepandemic, the data center industry was pushing the time-to-market envelope with prefabricated assemblies and techniques for managing production around long-lead items. But what about anticipating the project… Read More
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Top 10 Emergency Response Procedures Most Critical to Your Incident Response Plan
Read more: Top 10 Emergency Response Procedures Most Critical to Your Incident Response PlanExtreme weather conditions and disasters can strike at a moment’s notice, and data center site teams face the brunt of preparing for, and addressing these challenges. The past year of rapidly changing operating conditions, and most recently, extreme weather conditions, have taken a toll on the site teams. Even with advance planning, strategic sourcing and… Read More