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Supply chain shortages, product outages and long lead times continue to be a factor in most, if not all, areas of business around the world. Just when you think you have a wrinkle pressed flat, another seam begins to crease. At the same time organizations and employees still feel the [...]

Written by Nate Josephs Sr. Systems Engineer/Data Center Manager In the previous articles on policies, processes, and procedures, I defined policies as guidelines or rules for all work impacting the data center.  Processes are high-level steps needed to perform a desired output.  Procedures serve the distinct role of explaining in [...]

Written by Nate Josephs Sr. Systems Engineer/Data Center Manager Within this series of articles on policies, processes, and procedures, I’ve discussed the importance of implementing all three documents in order to minimize risk in the data center.  The first article explained the differences between each document and the second one [...]

Written by Nate Josephs Sr. Systems Engineer/Data Center Manager In the previous article, I discussed the importance of implementing all three documents (policies, processes, and procedures) to minimize risk in the data center.  I further discussed that policies differ from processes and procedures as policies are guidelines and rules based [...]

Policy, Process, and Procedure: Why You Need All Three Written by Nate Josephs Sr. Systems Engineer/Data Center Manager You may have heard the statement “Human error is the leading cause of most data center outages.”  An effective way to minimize human error is by implementing three documents: policies, processes, and [...]

Three Tactics to Successfully Deploy Your DCIM Software Written by Nate Josephs Sr. Systems Engineer/Data Center Manager In the previous Tips from a Data Center Manager blog, I discussed how to pick the right DCIM product and how to compare costs.  Once an organization overcomes the challenge of picking the [...]

How to Pick the Right DCIM Software and Compare Costs Written by Nate Josephs Sr. Systems Engineer/Data Center Manager In the previous Tips from a Data Center Manager blog, I discussed the benefits of DCIM by describing six valuable features it provides.  These features include: floor plans and rack views, [...]

Six Valuable Features Offered by DCIM Written by Nate Josephs Sr. Systems Engineer/Data Center Manager Prior to data center infrastructure management (DCIM), data center managers struggled to gather data center infrastructure data to understand existing capacity, view monitoring points, predict and proactively plan for future capacity needs, or integrate with [...]