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Mention downtime, in any context, causes problems for IT managers.
All too often the datacentre facility fails to perform before the infrastructure audit is commissioned, that like driving your car year in - year out, and expressing surprise after it breaks down, often at an very inconvenient time. For cars there is a mandatory annual inspection, yet the datacentre infrastructure often escapes attention until it is too late, downtime hits operations hard.
There are several opinions for the cost of downtime, US$ 1 million hour for a financial institute, perhaps more depending on which way the market is moving. Whatever the exact figure downtime is not cheap.
A datacentre project is not like other projects, they evolve over time with the equipment regularly refreshed, and a few years after opening bears will resemblance to the original.
New technology including blade servers and the like conspire to defeat the existing infrastructure pressing increasing loads in an environment that was perhaps designed many years before.
So how can IT managers avoid downtime? an annual health check or audit is
essential to manage the risk. After a failure it is too late, and the first
question arises when was check-up.
Risk
An audit helps you manage the risk, a fresh pair of eyes can point out simple fixes to potential downtime.
Kelcroft datacentre solutions - avoid datacentre downtime
The Uptime Institute, creators of the Tier I-V datacentre classification recommend annual infrastructure audits.
Documents
Datacentres are, most possibly, the most dynamic built environment, the facility is in a constant sea of change, and the document management is often overlooked. That is why management documentation for the facility infrastructure is absolutely critical click here to learn more about avoiding the pitfalls.....
Further Information
If you need any further information regarding Kelcroft's datacentre consultancy solutions, including data centre, planning, design, peer review, annual auditing, due diligence and thermal analysis contact the experts, call John Herbert at our Hong Kong office, the telephone number is (852) 2335 9830, the fax number is (852) 2335 9862, or simply email us.