Data center owners vs. designers: Common dysfunctions

Uptime Institute Symposium 2014 video investigates.

In the culmination of a year-long project detailed at the Uptime Institute's Symposium 2014, the consortium's COO Julian Kudritzki addresses common mistakes that can be caused by dysfunctional communications between data center owners and designer/engineers, and offers lessons learned from Uptime's accredited tier designers, network members and tier certification owners.

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