Course Description

This course encompasses the basic principles of data center design, tracking its history from the early days of the mainframe to the modern enterprise data center in its many forms and the future. It has modules on all the major sub-systems of a mission critical facility and their interdependencies, including power, cooling, compute and network.

Students will learn to apply best practice recommendations to site selection, building layout requirements, including resiliency level and space requirements as well as gain a good understanding of relevant standards, regulations, definitions and metrics that apply to the data center industry

Who Should Attend

• Facility engineers and technicians looking to deepen their understanding of the mission critical environment.
• Architecture, engineering and construction professionals up-skilling or transitioning to data center projects.
• Sales and marketing staff from technology vendors and other business professionals looking to build a holistic view of the modern data center.