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http://www.itpro.co.uk/news/123612/data-centre-confusion-threatens-business.html

A new survey has found that organisations are not adequately documenting the physical, hardware layer of the data centre.

A lack of formal standards and configuration management of changes to space, power and cooling in the data centre has led more than half (54 per cent) of respondents to experience between one and five outages at the physical level.

In the study, the Aperture Research Institute (ARI) researched 100 data centre organisations across a range of industries including banking, government, insurance, healthcare, data services, retail, and telecommunications.

Of those, nearly half (49 per cent) admitted they are not able to track changes across physical aspects of their data centre, while almost two-thirds (62 per cent) thought that more than 10 per cent of their configuration information was incorrect.

Managing your data center, in terms of the assets, the connections and configurations is an important part of the due diligence process, knowing server specifications, locations and configurations allows you to view the big picture, to know where your data center is today, where we think it will be tomorrow (in terms of load and capacity), adequate planning, data center management tools (like aperture as well as the others), and the right processes in place help achieve this goal. Consider that if you know which switches/ports power which connections, connect which servers, when there’s an outage on that port, we know what’s affected not just from an infrastructure level, but a business/application level as well, do check out the article.

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