Capitoline consultant and founding Director, Matt Flowerday, becomes the latest Capitoline consultant to be awarded Accredited Tier Designer status from the Up Time Institute. The Uptime Institute tier scheme is an extension of long established critical systems engineering principles aimed at simplifying the categorisation of data centres with varying levels of resilient design. There are […]
Capitoline LLP, the independent data centre consultancy, maintains a rolling four year statistical analysis of catastrophic data centre failures around the world and has just published the 2012 review to subscribing customers. 108 complete loss of service failures were analysed across all the continents. Perhaps the biggest surprise was the rise in serious fire events […]
Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust becomes the latest NHS department to adopt audit, design and training services from Capitoline. They are added to NHS Lothian, NHS Wales and Medway NHS Trust who have all become customers of Capitoline. Capitoline has audited the NHS data centre and computer room facilities to ensure compliance to […]
Using the practical experience derived by Capitoline from auditing, designing and commissioning computer rooms and data centres Capitoline LLP has launched a new on-site service to assist customers in the full commissioning and technical handover of a data centre. So many data centres are designed and built by unconnected companies that the essential process of […]
Capitoline LLP, a data centre engineering consultancy from the UK, and local partner KITS Technologies, based in Lagos, have commenced the roll out of industry leading data centre expert, DCE® certification qualification in Nigeria. The DCE® programme was the world’s first Data Centre facilities engineering training which started in 2005 and has been presented in […]
Capitoline’s Data Centre Design, DCD, and Data Centre Operational Management, DCOM, courses together make up the Data Centre Expert, DCE qualification. These have now been recognised as Approved Units within the UK government‘s approved Qualification and Credit Framework, or QCF. Qualifications and Credit Framework, QCF The Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) contains vocational (or work-related) […]
Capitoline has been recognised as an Approved Training centre by OpenAwards in a scheme recognised by the British Government’s Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation, Ofqual. OpenAwards expect centres to have robust Quality Assurance systems to support the award of qualifications and so this is a significant endorsement of Capitoline’s course development process and the […]
At the beginning of August the long awaited data centre standard TIA942:2012 was released. Formally known as ANSI/TIA-942-A-2012 it contains some interesting changes. The TIA942 standard was originally published in 2005 and was the first data centre standard giving recommendations on facility design. It contains recommendations for many aspects of data centre design including a […]
Capitoline LLP, the UK-based market leader in data centre design, auditing and training services, has appointed Data Structures SC, based in Madrid, to represent Capitoline’s range of data centre design, auditing and training services. Capitoline offers data centre auditing to TIA 942, BICSI and other standards and is a member of the new EN50600 standards […]
Capitoline consultant Matt Flowerday has achieved the status of BICSI DCDC Data Center Design Consultant. Matt is already a certified BICSI RCDD Registered Communications Distribution Designer and a BICSI Registered Telecommunications Project Manager. This qualification adds to Capitoline’s formidable armoury of data centre and electrical engineering qualifications from Europe and America. Capitoline’s training already qualifies […]
