The Mission Critical Site

Downtime and it's consequences
1. Data Centres created a huge loss for businesses and it's customers, especially where one is becoming more reliant on IT
Data Centre Value at stack
1. Quick estimate calculation is Revenue/(hr/year) eg: Revenue/8760
  1. Conduct a business impact analysis annually
Risk fators
1. Heat
  1. Cold
    1. Flooding
      1. Eathquake
        Lightning
        Air polution contamination
2. Equipment failure
  1. Human errors
    1. Sabotage
      1. Terrorism
        Network saturation
        Viruses / Hackers
Main Causes of Downtime and failures
1. Human error and hardware main causes of downtime
Predominant causes of Downtime and failures
1. Human Error
  1. No or pooly executed processes and work instructions
    1. unauthorized access
      1. Accidents
        Unnoticed Alarms
2. Power quality issues
  1. Poor voltage/current/frequency regulation
    1. High level of common and normal mode noise
      1. Harmonics
3. EMF
  1. High radiation levels from power cables/UPS/transformers/PDU
    1. Lightning,etc
4. Environmental Conditions
  1. Temperature / Humidity
    1. Wrong cooling principles
      1. High levels of contamination

Zusammenfassung der Ressource

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