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 […]
Capitoline, the leading independent specialist data centre auditor, and Internet Exchange AMS-IX have renewed the certifications for most of its data centres for the next two years. The audits of the data centres took place according to AMS-IX’ updated Data Centre Standard. Again certifications are assigned to Telecity, Global Switch, Equinix, EvoSwitch and Interxion. Only […]
There are two main reasons for conducting an electromagnetic and radio frequency survey or audit of a facility; [unordered_list style=”bullet”] To meet regulations and recommendations concerning the exposure of people to high levels of non-ionising radiation, better known as electromagnetic fields e.g. EU Directives on EMC exposure Ensure the reliable operation of information technology equipment […]
Capitoline has introduced a new thermal imaging service for computer rooms and data centres using state of the art forward looking infra red, FLIR, imaging techniques. Thermal imaging uses the infra-red light emitted from warm items to indicate their temperature in an easy to comprehend visual format. Thermal imaging, also known as thermography, is especially […]
Capitoline has become an endorser of the EU code of conduct for data centres reinforcing our approach to green and sustainable design for IT infrastructure. The Code of Conduct was created in response to increasing energy consumption in data centres and the need to reduce the related environmental, economic and energy supply security impacts. The […]
To develop our data centre services to help our client to achieve better continuity of services in their data centres we decided a good place to start would be to try and analyse why data centres go wrong. Information on this has been published before but usually by manufacturers who have a specific interest in […]
Capitoline, an independent data centre design, audit and training company, is pleased to announce that founding Director Barry Elliott has been awarded the new Up Time Institute Accredited Tier Designer status. Capitoline thus becomes one of the few companies in the world to achieve this prestigious award. The UpTime Institute created a widely recognised measure […]
