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Name: Server Room Environments Ltd
Address: St. Andrews Business Centre, Bromfield Industrial Estate, Queen's Lane, Mold, UK, CH7 1XB
Telephone: +448000306838
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Any organisation operating IT infrastructure and processing data must establish robust measures to safeguard the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information being processed. This principle lies at the core of ISO27001, the information security management system developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Unlike Cyber Essentials, a UK government-based certification, focused solely on an organisation’s information technology network, ISO27001 provides a more comprehensive framework, addressing all information, both internal and external, requiring security measures.

Which IT Asset Management (ITAM) tracking system do you use for your network devices? It may or may not surprise you that many smaller computer and server room operators use spreadsheets to track their IT assets. Whilst this approach may be fine for smaller IT operations with assets running into the 10s, it is not efficient and can lead to out-of-date information, duplicates, inaccurate serial numbers and tag overlaps. The average error rate for spreadsheet-based IT asset management is around 15%. Larger facilities and datacentres have to take a more software-based approach due to the number of IT assets involved and some use smart tagging systems to track and improve physical asset security.

When you install an uninterruptible power supply you are removing a single point of failure from your critical power path; the mains power supply itself. When there is a power outage your IT systems will continue to run on battery power. The runtime available should be long enough to ride through the power outage, start-up a local standby generator or initiate an orderly shutdown. But how resilient is your UPS and should you consider installing a parallel or modular UPS system?

In the UK, the weather extremes we typically experience can place extra stress on the systems used to manage building environments. Weather conditions change daily with weekly tracking of weather events sometimes showing extremes from sub-zero temperatures and spring-like temperatures.

Earlier this year, almost every organisation in the UK had to initiate their business continuity plans and move to widescale remote working in a bid to protect the NHS and general population from COVID-19. For many, the speed and scale of the move increased the pressures on already stretched IT teams. It also brought a greater focus to an area associated with larger-scale datacentre operations and one that up to now has typically received more investment than is made in small-to-medium sized computer or server room installations; remote monitoring solutions.

With many businesses and organisations shifting to remote working during the lockdown period, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of server and computer rooms supported remotely. This is a major change in how organisations work and for many means that their critical IT infrastructures are even more reliant on remote monitoring and control solutions.

Whether you operate a comms room or server room it is important to ensure you have a power protection plan in place that will prevent unplanned for downtime to a power outage. Many IT networks expand rapidly, and the rooms and racks used to house their critical servers and network devices can quickly become cluttered. This can lead to several health & safety issues from trip to fire hazards. It can also lead to single-points-of-failure in terms of power continuity planning as some new devices may not be supported when there is a mains power supply failure.

The power electronics circuits used within an uninterruptible power supply continue to evolve as UPS manufacturers develop their designs to be more energy efficient and compact. However, the overall size of a UPS system is limited by its battery pack and the amount of runtime that is required by the critical load when the mains power supply fails. How much runtime is required depends on the business continuity plan in place for any given organisation.

The next few months will see many of us take part in the biggest home working experiment ever. Our local fibre and broadband connections should be able to supply the levels of connectivity needed for remote working. Many local communications services have already been upgraded to support greater use of the internet and media streaming. However, home working could leave remote workers more vulnerable to local power outages. So, what can we do to ensure power availability and uptime?

There are several hazards within a server room or data centre that can disrupt operations, lead to down time, and potentially cause personal injuries. A formal risk assessment process is a way to identify the hazards and implement control and monitoring measures to mitigate the potential risks. Risk assessments should be carried out by suitably trained personnel in order to comply with health & safety requirements and can assist in improving the overall resilience of a server room or data centre.

For many organisations, the need to provide secure and reliable IT facilities has never been greater. Many are now operating a hybrid mixture of on-premise and Cloud IT services using products such as the office packages available from Google and Microsoft, in addition to video conferencing and webinar platforms. IT managers and the support services they provide therefore need to look for low-cost tools that can help them deliver the service uptime expected and to manage several operational locations.

Many businesses and organisations are rapidly checking their IT systems in preparation for remote working and instigation of their business continuity plans. At the best of times constantly running and accessible IT infrastructure underpins operational performance. In testing circumstances like these, it is even more important to ensure server room resilience and ensure that you can safely monitor and control remote systems.

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