Fast Track to MDX or Build the Best Data Center Facility for Your Business

Fast Track to MDX

Author: Robert Zar

Fast Track to MDX gives you all the necessary background to let you write useful, powerful MDX expressions and introduces the most frequently used MDX functions and constructs. No prior knowledge is assumed and examples are used throughout the book to rapidly develop your MDX skills to the point where you can solve real business problems.

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Build the Best Data Center Facility for Your Business

Author: Douglas Alger

A comprehensive, step-by-step guide to designing and managing robust, flexible, and productive data center facilities

Includes step-by-step instructions on every major decision involved in designing flexible and productive data center facilities

Shows how to maximize infrastructure, avoid downtime, and save millions by extending data center lifespan

Covers strategies for retrofitting an overburdened data center

Addresses common construction errors and includes design templates

Data centers are specialized environments that safeguard a company's most valuable equipment and intellectual property, housing the devices that process business transactions, host web sites, store data, maintain financial records, and route e-mail. A well-planned and effectively managed data center facility supports these functions and increases company productivity by providing reliable network availability and faster processing. This book undertakes all major decisions involved in the design and construction of a data center facility. It also provides instruction on how to effectively manage a data center so downtime is minimized, troubleshooting is easier, and the room's infrastructure is maximized, allowing a company to get more from its financial investment. Chapters are arranged in the order in which decisions must be made when planning a data center project. Part I covers physical infrastructure details: sizing the room, cabinet layout, electrical systems, data cabling, cooling, and fire suppression system. Part II addresses how to successfully manage the environment: organizing equipment, labeling, standardization, operations standards, documentation, and cleaning practices.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Approaching the data center project	5
Ch. 2	Choosing an optimal site	33
Ch. 3	Quantifying data center space	57
Ch. 4	Laying out the data center	83
Ch. 5	Overhead or under-floor installation?	111
Ch. 6	Creating a robust electrical system	135
Ch. 7	Designing a scalable network infrastructure	161
Ch. 8	Keeping it cool	195
Ch. 9	Removing skeletons from your server closet	215
Ch. 10	Organizing your way to an easier job	237
Ch. 11	Labeling and signage	249
Ch. 12	Stocking and standardizing	273
Ch. 13	Safeguarding the servers	293
Ch. 14	Mapping, monitoring, and metrics	317
Ch. 15	Maintaining a world-class environment	335