IDCA’s core mission is to aid in standardizing the approach, selection, design, feasibility, operation, and various processes and methodologies of Data Center. Formed by data center industry veterans who realized the problems facing the industry and decided to do something about it, IDCA has perceptively identified the gaps and shortcoming of the data center industry. Hence, while it brings together the best-of-breed practices and principles currently existing within the industry, it caters to the data center stakeholder the proper outlook of it on a broader-scale as well as in-depth details of the data center purpose, discipline, and organization. IDCA utilizes the core-competencies of a wide range of international standards that are specific to their domain, such as International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), European Standards (EN), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), American National Standards Institute (ANSI), American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), European Committee for Standardization (CEN), European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC), European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), Building Services Research and Information Association (BSRIA), Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), British Standards (BS), International Standard on Assurance Engagements (ISAE), etc., to name a few. However, in IDCA’s view, even the aggregate of earlier disciplines do not render a value which is greater than the sum of its parts, meaning none of the above alone, or even combined can deliver the data center vision that IDCA portrays to shape and maintain the data center industry. IDCA is the organization solely focused on the data center in order to a) conduct data center research, b) develop data center standards, c) provide data center education, and d) offer certification of data center, data center components and equipment as well as data center professionals. IDCA is becoming the standard reference point for the data center industry in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Middle East, and Africa, gaining overwhelming rapid global popularity. IDCA works with affiliates around the globe to achieve the optimum delivery of data center “discipline”, data center “life-style”, data center “knowledgebase”, data center “expertise”, data center “culture”, data center “efficiency”, data center “vision” to pave the “high-way” for the ever-evolving parturition of one of the most crucial industries for mankind, which is just at its outset.
