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KEN'S KORNER - Data Center Environmental Monitoring
Selecting a Monitoring System Monitoring can range from electrical power equipment supporting critical load such as UPS systems, diesel generators, PDU/RPP’s down to individual branch circuits within power panels. When evaluating a monitoring system consider what type of graphics are desired and available. Pictorial diagrams displaying individual monitored components are helpful, especially ones that change color or light up in... -
KEN'S KORNER - Disaster Recovery Planning
Disaster Recovery Planning Click here to view, print and share a pdf of this article. The average cost of an unplanned data center outage is $7,900 per minute, a 41% increase since 2010. The average outage lasted 86 minutes resulting in an average cost per incident of $690,000. Ponemon Institute: 2013 Study on Data Center Outages With data center downtime... -
KEN'S KORNER - Remote Data Center Site Evaluation
Remote Data Center Site Evaluation Click here to view, print and share a pdf of this article. Before you can assume responsibility for managing a remote data center, you first have to prepare yourself for the newly acquired data center. Preparation involves getting to know the people and equipment in the new data center, and then fixing problems in...