New Data Center Standard

mstansberry writes to tell us that the Telecommunications Industry Association (the people who brought you the CAT standards for unshielded twisted pair cabling) recently published a 148 page document meant to standardize the design considerations for every single aspect of a data center. The standard covers everything from site selection to rack mounting methods.

Comments

Steal the F*ing Manual

[fyoder]

Just not curious enough to pay the price to find out

Seriously. If all manuals were that expensive there would have been no 'RTFM'. It would have been 'STFM'.

Alternatives to THIS book

[xmundt]

Greetings and Salutations.
          Interestingly enough, a quick google search for "data center design" comes up with more hits than one can shake a stick at, ranging from free to fairly inexpensive (under $100.00). I have to admit that I wonder if THIS magnum opus has anything in it that these OTHER resources do not cover.

          It never ceases to amaze me at the number of books out there that are supposed to be useful learning tools that are nothing more than a slightly changed rehash of the man pages for a given program.

          Regards
          Dave Mundt

This is a really bad idea, sort of

[DaEMoN128]

From TFA, this is a "checklist" for CIO's. Last thing I need is my PHB having a list to check off and thinking they are requirements instead of suggestions. You never give a PHB this much info. They dont know what you are doing a good part of the time anyways... and a little info is more dangerous than none.

It can be a good idea if the techs get a hold of it though and stop giving my 2 inches of slack on these fiber runs and give be a proper service loop with good cable dressing instead of the rats nests I've had to fix recently.

Re:Raised Floors?

[marquis-cablewitch]

But without raised floors where am I supposed to hide the bodies?