{"id":10819,"date":"2017-12-12T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/12\/12\/news-4591\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T17:00:13","slug":"news-4591","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/12\/12\/news-4591\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a Crisis in a Data Center Can be Considered a Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Guest Blogger| Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:16:59 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Facebook builds some of the most advanced, energy-efficient data centers in the world. Yet doing so at scale \u2014 enough to support billions of people \u2014 doesn&#8217;t come without challenges. One of these challenges brought James Swensen, head of global data center facility operations at Facebook, and I to 7&#215;24 Exchange as co-presenters.<\/p>\n<p>In our presentation, we discussed an arc flash incident that took place in Facebook&#8217;s Lulea, Sweden location.\u00a0 The Lulea Data Center has a high amount of voltage in a comparably small square footage space and used a unique busway configuration to meet <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/?feed-stats-url=aHR0cHM6Ly9nby5zY2huZWlkZXItZWxlY3RyaWMuY29tL05BTV9JVEJfVVNfMjAxNjA5X0RDLUd1aWRlLVBsYW5uaW5nLWFuZC1EZXNpZ24tV2ViXzAxLUVib29rLUd1aWRlLXRvLURDLVBsYW5uaW5nLWFuZC1EZXNpZ24tV2ViLVBGLUxQLmh0bWw%2Fc291cmNlPUNvbnRlbnQmYW1wO3NEZXRhaWw9SFZDZGNwbGFubmluZw%3D%3D&#038;feed-stats-url-post-id=43914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data center specifications<\/a>.\u00a0 Such complexity means when there&#8217;s an incident, the cause is complicated as well.<\/p>\n<p>Typical questions asked after a failure in the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/?feed-stats-url=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2NobmVpZGVyLWVsZWN0cmljLnVzL2VuL3dvcmsvc29sdXRpb25zL2Zvci1idXNpbmVzcy9kYXRhLWNlbnRlcnMtYW5kLW5ldHdvcmtzLz9tcmtnY2w9OTg2JmFtcDtnY2xpZD1FQUlhSVFvYkNoTUk0Y1huNk1mMjF3SVZXMWdOQ2gyZ3h3Q05FQUFZQWlBQUVnSnYzUERfQndF&#038;feed-stats-url-post-id=43914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data center<\/a> are: What happened? Who was there? Why did it happen? That can turn into a finger pointing exercise, with any involved stakeholders hoping it&#8217;s not their work or equipment at fault.<\/p>\n<p>However, when collaborating on a solution to mitigate future arc flashes, the Facebook team took a different approach and set a tone of learning (versus finding fault).\u00a0 Instead of assessing blame, they created a culture of collaboration in order to get the gift of knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>This gave everyone permission to be open. \u00a0In that spirit, and even though Schneider Electric was mainly a components provider to Facebook at that time, we took the opportunity to become a bigger part of the solution.<\/p>\n<p>To hear a first-hand account of the arc flash and find out what we learned, watch the video highlights from our presentation. We invite you to open the gift.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.com\/embed\/medias\/ou6bl3e236.jsonp\" async><\/script><script src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.com\/assets\/external\/E-v1.js\" async><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_padding\" style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_wrapper\" style=\"height:100%;left:0;position:absolute;top:0;width:100%;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_embed wistia_async_ou6bl3e236 videoFoam=true\" style=\"height:100%;width:100%\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Bill Westbrock<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43915 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BillW.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Westbrock\" width=\"208\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BillW.jpg 208w, https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BillW-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bill is the Strategic Account Executive for Facebook at Schneider Electric, responsible for leading the sales efforts at the account &amp; ensuring a positive customer experience. Prior to joining Schneider, he served as Vice President of Sales for Apparent Inc renewable energy business, responsible for system sales and business strategy. Before that, Bill held sales and management positions over a 17 year period with Schneider Electric, Power Measurement Ltd., MGE UPS, Westinghouse and Johnson Controls. Bill is co-author of numerous white papers and patents. Bill graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He also is a member of IEEE. Bill lives in San Rafael, CA where he enjoys cycling, running, tennis, swimming and surfing.<\/p>\n<p>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/?feed-stats-post-id=43914\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" style=\"display: none;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/co-location\/2017\/12\/12\/crisis-data-center-can-considered-gift\/\">Why a Crisis in a Data Center Can be Considered a Gift<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\">Schneider Electric Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/co-location\/2017\/12\/12\/crisis-data-center-can-considered-gift\/\" target=\"bwo\" >http:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Guest Blogger| Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:16:59 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Facebook builds some of the most advanced, energy-efficient data centers in the world. Yet doing so at scale \u2014 enough to support billions of people \u2014 doesn&#8217;t come without challenges&#8230;.  <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/co-location\/2017\/12\/12\/crisis-data-center-can-considered-gift\/\" title=\"ReadWhy a Crisis in a Data Center Can be Considered a Gift\">Read more &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/co-location\/2017\/12\/12\/crisis-data-center-can-considered-gift\/\">Why a Crisis in a Data Center Can be Considered a Gift<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\">Schneider Electric Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[12389,12388],"tags":[12390,12817,12391,12400,12500],"class_list":["post-10819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scadaics","category-schneider","tag-colocation","tag-colocation-provider","tag-data-center","tag-data-center-operations","tag-data-center-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}