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In critical environments, appearances can deceive. Like the blind man of folklore who touched an elephant's tail and proclaimed, "The elephant is like a rope," critical facility managers who rely on narrow sets of operating data fail to get the whole story.
Failure can have severe consequences: inefficiency, wasted energy, server malfunctions, network outages, unhappy customers, negative publicity, lost revenue, erosion in stock price.
Much more so than ordinary floor space, critical environments rest on complex interactions between equipment, controls, configurations, maintenance habits, operating philosophies, and business imperatives. There is no way ...