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Modular chiller plants can provide some surprisingly significant benefits to a data center’s operation. Similar to “stick built” plants, modular designed chiller plants can be specified by the MEP design engineers and the data center owner/operator with similar equipment. As…

Winter Storm Jonas pounded the east coast this past weekend with up to three feet of snow and 60-80 mile per hour winds. Widespread power outages affected a large swath of the area with hundreds of thousands impacted in North…

Sentinel’s Co-Founder Josh Rabina presented his keynote presentation “Overbuilt & Overbought” at NANOG 65 in Montreal, Canada. The presentation touched upon on the current data center trends as they relate to multi-tier deployments and how overprovisioning has become one of…

Among the most important inputs into a data center TCO analysis is a data center capacity demand forecast, ideally measured in kilowatts. Yet accurately forecasting data center capacity requirements beyond a 12-24 month horizon is virtually impossible. So what happens…

Imagine if someone had offered you the following proposition back in your early 20s: swap your roommate-filled studio apartment for a luxury custom home and save on monthly rent. Too good to be true, right? We believe that for large…

While the cultural divide between IT and Facilities teams has been gradually closing, it is far from entirely gone. With respect to data center and colocation procurement, this cultural divide can, at times, undermine good decision making. In order to…