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The worlds of IT and facilities arose from different business needs -- IT, concerned with the flow of information; facilities, with requirements for space, power and cooling. In this era of virtualized data centers, the two ivory towers need to come together to ensure long-lasting business continuity, according to midmarket CIOs and other experts.
"The biggest challenge is building something that will last for years," said Kathleen Agnew, who recently worked on a data center consolidation and virtualization project as ITS operations manager at King County Library System (KCLS) Service Center in Issaquah, Wash. King County spans 2,134 square miles on Puget Sound (including Seattle), nearly twice the geographic size of the average U.S. county. Home to more than 1.9 million people, it's also the 14th most populous county in the nation. During the KCLS consolidation project, the IT and facilities departments worked together to bring in an electrical engineer to help define the request for proposal, particularly with regard to the UPS system; an architect to assist with pulling permits; and a mechanical engineer to ensure that the consolidated data center is structurally sound, Agnew said. "In this day and age, you... More... |
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