DACPROS Insights
Practical guides and field notes from our engineers — smart hands, builds, structured cabling, maintenance and clean, compliant decommissioning. Written for the people who own the racks at 2am.
The edge data centre boom is moving outside London. What nLighten's £100m Bristol upgrade, BlackRock's Gravity Edge JV and 50 new SmartEdge sites mean for smart hands services.
Step-by-step: remote checks, who to call, and how to get a certified engineer to your rack in under 2 hours — even at 2am.
AI GPU clusters are pushing racks past 120kW — far beyond what most data centres were built for. What it means for cooling, power, and smart hands.
Why neat cabling is an uptime decision, not a vanity one — the nine habits that keep a comms room serviceable for years.
Service quality varies widely between providers. Here are the eight SLA terms that separate good providers from those just showing up.
From asset audit to WEEE recycling — the ten steps that keep a decommission safe, auditable and free of nasty surprises.
What smart hands actually covers, how it differs from remote hands, when to use it, and what a good provider does differently on the floor.
The planning phase is the cheapest time to make decisions. Here is what every enterprise IT team needs to define before the purchase order goes out.
Six stages, one continuous process. How thinking about the full lifecycle reduces cost, downtime, and compliance risk.
Human error causes 70% of data centre outages. When the engineer on site isn't qualified, the callout fee is the least of your costs.
AI density, edge deployments, ESG compliance, and a deepening skills shortage are reshaping the industry simultaneously. Here is what is driving it.
The average cost of hiring a new worker is 20% of annual salary. In high-turnover data centre roles, that cost compounds fast. Here is how to manage it.
250 servers, 7 cabinets, a global CDN client, and a 5-day downtime window. DACPROS delivered in 2. Here is how.
60% of CTOs plan to buy new storage. Almost none of them budget for the engineering headcount that managing it requires.