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From a simple power failure to a record flood or raging fire, server disasters can damage a business and halt the flow of important information crucial to company prosperity.

A company’s server often contains mission critical data and information vital to the day-to-day running of a business. As data can often be a company’s most important asset, whatever compromises its security also compromises the security of a business.

Server protection can often be ignored, despite the cost of ignorance being so high. With the price of downtime being so great, what can a business do to minimise these risks and protect valuable servers?

Managing your data center, managing your risk/exposure is always going to be a challenge. What’s key to understand is your relationship with the end user community. What level of service is it that the end users expect? 24/7 @99.999% up time? Or is it 9-5 week days? With this in mind, what level of exposure or risk are we comfortable in running internally, and what agreed risk is acceptable to the end user? In terms of risk, how locked down, how process based, and procedural is it we want to be? We want to protect service, to maintain high availability, but we need to in a way that allows IT to be an enabler to your business. With this in mind, what is a change in the data center?

• Decommission/re-racking or moving equipment
• Installation of new equipment
• Changes to your telecoms/networks equipment
• Access to the data center

It’s going to depend on you and your business but worth thinking about, especially if you’re looking at moving to a co-location facility/external data center provider. I don’t care who you are, if you haven’t got a door pass, you aren’t on the list, you’re not getting in – different to how you might manage access if the CIO turns up and asks to see the data center. At the same point, how much margin of edge living are you in power and cooling in your own data center, what margin would you get in an externally hosted facility?

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