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Check Your Blind Spots: Unleashing Your Building Management Systems Potential
Read more: Check Your Blind Spots: Unleashing Your Building Management Systems PotentialMost data centers rely on Building Management Systems (BMS) to monitor and control critical infrastructure, but few fully utilize the operational efficiencies these systems can deliver. The common challenge? Your blind spots. While BMS tools are essential to any operation, focusing solely on failure prevention is like never checking the rearview mirror, which can lead… Read More
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Strategies for Long-Term Operational Excellence in Your Mission Critical Facility
Read more: Strategies for Long-Term Operational Excellence in Your Mission Critical FacilityOperational excellence is the foundation of any successful mission critical facility. Downtime can’t become a reality as a data center or critical facility. To maintain uptime, mission critical facilities must implement strategic best practices that optimize, protect, and adapt to evolving pressures and needs. Here are four key strategies to achieve long-term operation excellence: Assess… Read More
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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