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centres themselves. This is where the
services of a Commissioning Authority
(CxA) can greatly aid project success.
While the owner maintains decision-
making power and thus control over
the process, a skilled (CxA) team can
deliver the expertise, guidance, and
direction needed to make informed
commissioning decisions.
Gary Williams, Director of
Commissioning at AESG
integrated system. This will involve
a complete power down and an
automatic restart.
Bringing in the experts
The manner in which commissioning
is executed is strongly dependent on
the particular organisation’s needs. But
often due to lack of time, resources or
expertise, in-house teams are unable
to properly commission their data
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The objective of commissioning is to
ensure the highest level of reliability
and it provides organisations with a
reassurance that their critical physical
subsystems are tightly integrated and
work together. Any enterprise designing
and deploying a data centre should
leverage this high-return service to
realise greater availability, efficiency and
security through the entire duration of
their data centre’s operation.
About the author
Gary is the Director of Commissioning in
AESG, a firm specialising in the provision
of commissioning, commissioning
management, energy and sustainability
consultancy in the Middle East.
He practiced the highest level of
Commissioning Project Management
extensively in Europe, Near East and
Middle East. n
“Well integrated systems that
have been tuned and optimised
offer better performance, reduce
maintenance and administrative
overheads and even scale back
energy requirements.”
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