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At Ascent, we love to be able to share how we’re “Elevating Mission Critical.” To keep up with exactly how we’re doing that, check here for our ongoing critical facilities management, data center and solutions and services news and updates, industry headlines, and more!

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  • periodicity

    Optimizing Periodicity in Preventative Maintenance Scheduling

    Periodicity and its Challenges Welcome to our last blog in our three-part blog series, where we have been discussing key points of Preventative Maintenace (PM) programs. In this blog, we’ll be discussing how preventative maintenance is cyclical by nature, meaning that the work being performed is completed at specific intervals. These intervals are referred to… Read More

    Read more: Optimizing Periodicity in Preventative Maintenance Scheduling
  • International Data Center Day

    International Data Center Day: Empowering Tomorrow’s Data Center Leaders

    Ascent is excited to be sponsoring the 2024 International Data Center Day on March 20. This day, powered by 7×24 Exchange International, is intended “to create awareness of the data center industry and to inspire the next generation of talent” and provides the industry an opportunity to demonstrate what data centers are, why they are… Read More

    Read more: International Data Center Day: Empowering Tomorrow’s Data Center Leaders
  • Chris Cleghorn

    Leadership Perspectives: 25 Years with Chris Cleghorn

    As Ascent commemorates its 25 years in the data center business, I’m humbled to be part of a team that has steadily grown and evolved to support its customers. Upon reflecting on my 16 years here, one of the key ingredients to our success has become increasingly obvious— it’s listening. While simple, the fundamental act… Read More

    Read more: Leadership Perspectives: 25 Years with Chris Cleghorn
  • Uniting engineering teams

    Preventative Maintenance: Uniting Engineering Teams

    Welcome to our second blog of preventative maintenance (PM) three-part blog series, where we will dive into how to unite engineering teams for optimal performance. Preventative maintenance is often based chiefly on manufacturer recommendations. Thus, PM programs within a facility often represent an amalgam of various manufacturer recommendations. Here, the limitations lie in the fact… Read More

    Read more: Preventative Maintenance: Uniting Engineering Teams
  • Leadership Perspectives: Ben Pesek

    Leadership Perspectives: 25 Years with Ben Pesek  

    During my tenure at Ascent, I cannot help but reflect and appreciate how much the company has grown and evolved. Ascent has been at the forefront of ensuring we take a customer focus approach first — consistently delivering to solve their most complex data center challenges through our maintenance programs, 24x7x365 support, and more. We… Read More

    Read more: Leadership Perspectives: 25 Years with Ben Pesek  
  • synthesizing critical data

    Preventative Maintenance: Synthesizing Critical Data 

    Welcome to our latest three-part blog series, where we delve into the depths of mission critical preventative maintenance (PM). Throughout this series, we will provide simple, actionable ways to improve current-state maintenance programs.   First up — data. When crafting preventative maintenance (PM) plans, the more data that is available, the better. However, a lack of… Read More

    Read more: Preventative Maintenance: Synthesizing Critical Data 
  • Jamie Lester 25 Years

    Leadership Perspectives: 25 Years with Jamie Lester

    It is hard to believe that Ascent is already at the 25-year mark!  It is humbling for me to think back on those years, and to think about all that we have been able to accomplish with the help of our staff, our leadership, and our amazing customers.  We have truly come a long way… Read More

    Read more: Leadership Perspectives: 25 Years with Jamie Lester
  • Robert Painter 25 Years

    Leadership Perspectives: 25 Years In Business with Robert Painter

    This year Ascent celebrated 25 years in business, and we are both excited and grateful to reach this milestone.  Back in 1998, Phil Horstmann founded our company with the mission of helping customers manage and maintain mission critical equipment. We’ve stayed true to our mission of improving critical facility reliability, finding customer savings and implementing… Read More

    Read more: Leadership Perspectives: 25 Years In Business with Robert Painter
  • Ascent Elevating Mission Critical

    Ascent: Elevating Mission Critical

    After 25 years of serving the mission critical industry, Ascent is excited to present new branding that communicates not only the depth of our years of service but the promise we are making to our customers and team members for the years to come.  Ascent’s strength is in its core values, which unite a team… Read More

    Read more: Ascent: Elevating Mission Critical
  • Ascent Rebrand

    Ushering in a New Era of Innovation: Ascent Announces Transformative Rebrand

    The company’s rebrand reflects the depth of past experience in addition to its continued commitment to innovation and ‘elevating mission critical’  St. Louis, MO —November 16, 2023 — Ascent, a leading provider of customer-driven solutions in the development, engineering, construction and operations of data centers and critical facilities, celebrates its 25 years in business and… Read More

    Read more: Ushering in a New Era of Innovation: Ascent Announces Transformative Rebrand
  • A Guide Preparing for Outsourced IT Services

    In a recent blog titled “The State of Post-Pandemic Data Center IT Services,” we addressed an issue that McKinsey and Company refers to as “the great attrition.” For a variety of reasons, the pandemic has left the mission critical IT workforce with fewer resources than before it began. This lack of human resources has precipitated… Read More

    Read more: A Guide Preparing for Outsourced IT Services
  • The State of Post-Pandemic Data Center IT Services

    If you have recently reached out to an IT service provider looking for support, you have likely been introduced to the “new normal” in IT customer service: waiting in line. From help desk and troubleshooting at prominent SaaS vendors, to attracting and hiring field technicians and engineers, the talent pool has gotten shallower since early… Read More

    Read more: The State of Post-Pandemic Data Center IT Services

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