Duration
1 day
What you'll learn
- Introduction to data centers data center types, sizes, and priorities
- Summarized history of technology
- Data Center types & sizes
- Differing priorities of data centers, from financial to search engines to blockchain
- Supporting equipment, systems, and controls
Requirements
Basic understanding of buildings or IT
Description
Learn the basics to enter into the world of data centers, the fastest growing sector in the design and construction industry. By the end you will know the lingo and more about data centers than 90% of those in the industry.
From Google to Microsoft, 5G to blockchain, selfies to self-driving, the internet is expected to become an even bigger part of our lives - and it's all supported by a growing legion of mammoth facilities known as data centers. Our digital footprint grows phenomenally every year and that data passes through, is stored and processed by the contents of these largest of energy intensive buildings on the planet.
This course is intended to give you a jump start into the world of data centers. We will cover the many standards, terminology, and acronyms used when talking and walking through these mission critical facilities.
In this course we cover:
- History, types, and sizes - what are the data centers you may see & walk into
- Standards & goals - what are tiers of reliability, what is important to which type of owner
- Components - the equipment & systems that support the data center
- Terms and acronyms - most common descriptions, definitions, and practices
- Security, safety & more - all of the other major considerations that go into data center
Who this course is for:
- Students and anyone interested in learning more about where the internet lives
- Architects
- Engineering design professionals
- Energy managers
- Facilities operations
- Contractors
Course Content
Data Center Introduction
- History of data centers, evolving to modern facilities;
- Concepts of redundancy, availability & reliability
- Data center types & sizes
Data Center Reliability
- Standards of reliability for data centers as well as the equipment, tiers, and needs to meet those standards.
Data Center Equipment
- Overview of the equipment in a data center: IT, power, cooling, and layouts
Data Center Data Hall Critical Space
- What is the data center critical IT ('white') space?
- Sizes, arrangements, architecture, power, network and cooling
Data Center Support Spaces
- What is in the data center support spaces?
- Power (electrical)
- Cooling (mechanical)
- Network, fire protection, and others
Data Center Security, Safety, Networks and IT
- Access to enter data centers
- Fire detection, water storage, gaseous suppression, and fire alarm systems
- Automated controls
- IT system types and deployments
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.