{"id":8027,"date":"2023-04-20T15:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T14:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.future-tech.co.uk\/?p=8027"},"modified":"2023-04-20T15:27:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T14:27:14","slug":"the-importance-of-data-centre-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.future-tech.co.uk\/the-importance-of-data-centre-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Data Centre Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the biggest areas of contention when it comes to data centres, is \u2018who looks after it?\u2019 – is it Estates, the IT department, or somebody else entirely?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In reality, this doesn\u2019t matter; what does matter is that maintenance is done properly and that a Data Centre Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedule is created to ensure operational uptime and efficiency is optimised throughout the life of the data centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My good friend Scott Roots from Uptime Institute helped me with some interesting data, that emphasises the importance of Planned Preventative Maintenance in data centres:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poor, or no, data centre maintenance is one of the main causes of unplanned downtime for businesses. If a business cannot operate for an extended time, the financial impact of a data centre outage on a business is somewhere between \u00a3100,000 to \u00a31 million, in both direct and indirect costs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is estimated around 45% of data centre failures could have been avoided if Planned Preventative Maintenance had been implemented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Regular data centre maintenance is an essential part of data centre operations. When deploying a data centre, ongoing care should be as essential as the deployment, and not an afterthought once constructed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if you have a legacy data centre, you should still implement Planned Preventative Maintenance to ensure an older facility still operates as originally designed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, the older a data centre becomes, the more important the maintenance becomes as critical equipment ages and approaches the end of reliable life. In short, a well-planned and proactive data centre maintenance schedule is essential to keep any data centre operating efficiently and effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are the benefits of Planned Preventative Maintenance?<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

These are listed below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. PPM will ensure any new equipment maintains its warranty status.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Prevent small problems from escalating into larger issues or outages.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Maximised equipment lifecycle and reliability and make the best possible use of the capital deployed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Improve energy efficiency and operating expenditure.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Ensure that the data centre continues to operate as originally designed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Keep up to date with the latest software and firmware updates, systems technology, and emerging data centre best practices.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Better sleep at night.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    While I joke about better sleep at night, Future-tech maintains over 100 data centres across England, Ireland, and Scotland, with the purpose of ensuring our client\u2019s data centres operate at peak performance according to their original design parameters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    A Data Centre is a complex thing and is generally built to provide reliability and resilience for business operations, so it is essential that it operates correctly in order to properly support business-critical services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Do you have the experienced electrical and mechanical engineers required to run a data centre, and do you want to directly take on the business risk of managing a data centre without the correct skills and experience?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The purpose of Planned Preventative Maintenance is to catch small problems early and avoid them escalating into much bigger ones; while ensuring that if an issue does occur it is resolved quickly, efficiently and by Data Centre qualified engineers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If you are not already doing this, contact Future-tech<\/a>; we will help you find a suitable solution to ensure that you do not suffer unexpected downtime in your data centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Next in the series ( next week \/ Month \/ Year ): Equipment-Specific Maintenance<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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