Data Center Power Professional

  • Framework: Level 3
  • PDHs 21
  • Duration: 3 day intensive classroom
  • Locations:
    New York 21/05/2012 3 Days Book now
    San Jose 11/06/2012 3 Days Book now
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  • Languages: English / Spanish
  • Fees: $2250 / €1725 / £1425

Within the built environment, data centers, often referred to as mission critical facilities, have particular power requirements that significantly impact how they are designed and operated. Balancing energy costs and infrastructure availability has become a key practice for data center professionals across the globe. This course has been developed to give individuals a more granular understanding of the key challenges that data center operators face when making infrastructure investments as well as the complexities of managing change.


The course is NOT intended to teach an individual to be able to specify or operate ALL aspects of a
data center’s power infrastructure without the assistance of technology area experts. However upon
successful completion of the course (and framework) they should be a more informed participant in the design and operations process, and in the management of third party subject matter experts.

Course outline and main topics covered

  1. Nine (9s), Tiers and Ns: Data center power strategies for high availability
  2. Understanding the limitations of utility grid power supplies
  3. Designing mission critical power architectures
  4. Right-sizing power infrastructure, resilience level and provisioning
  5. Concurrent maintainability and operational procedures
  6. Codes and regulations and safe methods of working
  7. Uninterruptible Power Supplies [UPS] types, operation and maintenance
  8. Switchgear, static transfer switches, PDUs and cabinet supply best practice
  9. Emergency back-up, onsite power generation and renewables
  10. Power systems monitoring, metering and cost allocation
  11. Failure scenarios and Emergency Operational Procedures [EOPs]