Data Center Systems and Operation Training

Otomatica provides special training on electromechanical systems used in Critical Facilities, particularly in Data Centers, and on Sustainable Operation. Added-value is provided through relevant site-specific surveys, assessments and solutions in accordance with the principles of confidentiality when organization-specific trainings are provided in special classes.

The contents of the training are available at the following links. Please feel free to contact us if you are interested.

DC Infrastructure Design Fundamentals:

Data Center Infrastructure consists of the integration of 15 to 18 different electro-mechanical systems.  The interaction between systems is structured in a way that fulfills the goal of high availability (business continuity) and maintains the capacity in use.  Each system has dependencies on other systems and all activities by the data center management team are aimed to be carried out concurrently in a way that does not cause disruption to critical IT devices.

In the formation of the infrastructure that meets the data center service provider and end-user business objectives, the stages of feasibility, planning, design and implementation are passed, respectively.  At these stages, the investor needs external consultants, designers, project management companies, main and subcontractors, as well as different corporate departments within the company.  Investment management has to coordinate these internal and external teams to work together and value engineering.

Awareness of different issues specific to the center such as from business continuity level to energy efficiency, from system requirements to components, from determining selection criteria to comparison methods, from current standards and best practices to which subject to refer to, from topology to system selection, from site selection to white space layout, from testing and commissioning to sustainable operation becomes important.

The aim of this training is to provide a holistic view to investors, end users, main contractors, project design and management companies who are planning to take part in the feasibility, planning, design, implementation, or holistic coordination processes for the data center infrastructure facility and support the completion of the project on time and within budget by meeting their business objectives at the maximum level. is to provide information.

Sustainable Operation Training:

The value provided by the data center critical infrastructure management to its internal or external customers increases in parallel with its dependency on Information Technologies. If the quality of products and services provided by enterprises is highly dependent on the performance and continuity of the information technologies, the responsibility for critical infrastructure operation is elevated to a responsibility that directly impacts the “whole business continuity of the organization”. An incorrect action by a new member of the infrastructure operation team (10-30 people) is critical enough to impact the efficiency and effectiveness of the whole enterprise (tens of thousands of employees and up to millions of customers).

The main purpose of this training is to provide guidance to ensure that the whole DC operation team elevates their operations to the level of sustainable operation. The main theme of this training is to guarantee that returns on expenses such as staff, service agreements, fuel and resource consumptions, and consumables budgeted for data center operation are received as high business continuity and efficient operational capability. It helps prioritization for limited budgets.

Data Center Mechanical Systems

Mechanical cooling systems that contain the most important element of the Data Center Critical Physical Infrastructure are an important matter for both business continuity and data center efficiency. Reducing cooling power and water consumption without increasing business continuity risk requires specialization. Mechanical systems are not easily understandable and trackable like electrical systems. They are complicated and may inflict high losses in the organization receiving the services unless planned using the correct methods.

Understanding complex systems and structures is important for reliable capacity management particularly for organizations that focus on “data center sustainable operation”. The know-how of the team staff will enable reducing human errors, tracking causal failures and increasing efficient operation capabilities.