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Art Carapola

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President and CTO, NewVista Advisors

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Certified Data Center Design Professional

Feb. 8, 2012

Art Carapola and 6 other people answered this question

Who is the rightful owner of your corporate email address?

I agree with the previous posters that the EMAIL address and everything that goes into and out of it belongs to the company. As previously stated, that fact should be clearly stated in the employee manual.
I will add here that this also applies to ... more

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Corporate Email Address

Sept. 8, 2011

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Does your organization make use of process improvement methodologies like six sigma, KAIZEN, etc.?

I will give my personal perspective on this, which may differ from the party line.
I have worked at organizations that require certifications in methodologies - specifically a giant financial services company that required Six-Sigma certification. All of the project and functional managers become six-sigma certified ... more

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Change Management

Sept. 8, 2011

Art Carapola and 5 other people answered this question

How does consideration of disaster recovery impact data center planning?

I’m going to take a slightly different, more hardware specific perspective in answering this question since the Webinar was about building a data center.
Regarding support for Disaster Recovery in a NEW data center, I begin the process by focusing on redundancies and diversities to ... more

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Disaster Recovery

March 14, 2011

Art Carapola and 6 other people answered this question

What's the hardest type of project to manage?

The hardest projects for me is when there are a number of unrelated businesses involved that refuse to see or embrace the "bigger picture". The challenge is when the project has obvious dependencies between the businesses, however few or none are neither measured on nor ... more

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Project Management

March 14, 2011

Art Carapola and 23 other people answered this question

Do you look at who has viewed your profile on Linkedin?

I look at who has viewed my profile about once a week. I find it very useful when I am prospecting for new business or in the proposal phase of a new project to gauge the potential client's interest.
I would like to see more ... more

Jan. 25, 2011

Art Carapola and 1 other person answered this question

Data Center Best Practices: What are your 3 tips for building a green data center?

Building a green data center is by definition making it as efficient an environment as possible. Some easy tips would include:
Virtualization – obviously this reduces the absolute number of physical servers thereby reducing the power consumption of the environment
Remove Zombie Servers – most ... more

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Jan. 25, 2011

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What problems, if any, does data center power consumption cause to businesses?

Depending on the business location, excess power consumption can cause other limitations within a company site. Most commercial leases include limitations on how much power and condensed water a tenant can consume. If the data center requires an unusually high amount of power and hence ... more

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Data Center Costs

Power Consumption

Jan. 25, 2011

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How do you know when it's time to own your own data center?

Data Centers can range from smaller rooms of a few thousand square feet to huge separate buildings of several hundred thousand square feet.
When you are talking about the smaller rooms, which I might define more as “server rooms”, every company of reasonable size will ... more

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Data Center Management

Jan. 25, 2011

Art Carapola and 6 other people answered this question

What do you prefer and why?: vendor-agnostic consultants or consultants who take commissions?

I have to agree with Fred’s comments on this subject. As a consultant in the data center space, where my team is tasked with architecting a data center and managing the implementation, I am often approached by vendors that want to build a form of ... more

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Marketing Automation

Jan. 25, 2011

Art Carapola and 2 other people answered this question

business continuity plans

Curtis, preparing for a disaster must start with a comprehensive Disaster Recovery plan that is agreed to by all stakeholders. Phil is on target with his comment that the plan must start with the business goals, specifically the business continuity plan if one exists. I ... more

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Nov. 17, 2010

Art Carapola and 5 other people answered this question

What should I be concerned with when developing my data center?

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For both the electrical and mechanical systems, make certain that the design takes into consideration what happens when there is scheduled (or unscheduled) shutdowns of the supplies. In a multitenant building electrical and condensed water risers are occasionally shut down ... more

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