It’s time facility managers take another look at server rooms and data closets.
With so many companies putting critical applications and databases on the cloud, or housing their IT footprint in a colocation facility or private data center, facility managers might think that server rooms and data closets have gone the way of typewriters, VCRs, and pay phones. But these kinds of mission-critical data rooms are more common than initially realized. Every remote office or branch location owned by a company has a server room or data closet, whether those terms are used to describe it or not. It is the place to house the mission-critical IT and/or network equipment that is specific to the needs of that particular site. Some IT professionals are now using the term “edge room” to describe a room that houses servers connected to an edge network.
Article By: Robert S. Lindsay
Facility managers should first make a list of every remote office, branch, or edge location that the company owns. Then ask the following six questions regarding each site:
- What types of mission-critical equipment does the company have at each site?
- What mission-critical infrastructure (if any) do FMs already have at each site, and how much redundancy is there?
- What are the uptime requirements for each location?
- What is the cost of downtime for each location?
- How much mission-critical infrastructure would you need at each location to make it fully redundant?
- What is the TCO of mission- critical infrastructure vs. the cost of downtime for each location?
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