Chris Wellfair, Projects Director at Secure I.T. Environments Ltd, outlines the key maintenance areas that should be covered in a maintenance programme, so data centre managers can think about whether it’s time to update their regime.
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In any one enterprise organisation right now, there may be four or five separate asset management tracking systems or, more likely, several separate spreadsheets with different naming conventions and probably some overlaps and out-dated information. Many data centers are still managing their assets on spreadsheets, which is, in our opinion, sub-optimal. By Venessa Moffat, Head of Product Marketing, RiT Tech.
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Data centres comprise a complex and changing collection of IT and communications equipment housed within an environment that’s also multifaceted and challenging. Yet a host enterprise’s viability often depends critically on its data centre’s uninterrupted availability as a resource. Accordingly, the centres’ managers must have sophisticated tools to give them visibility and control of equipment and environment status at all times, even when they’re remote from the equipment. By Alex Emms, Ope...
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Water leak detection is commonly installed in datacentres, communications rooms and other information technology dependent structures. After all it is crucial to protect these critical assets from both fire and floods by receiving the earlier possible notification of an incident, allowing action to be taken quickly to take preventative measures. Leaking water from HVAC, AC units, water pipes, drainage or even ground water can cause significant disruption. By Graham Jarvis, Freelance Business an...
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How to solve the disconnect between manual and digital asset management. By Mark Gaydos, chief marketing officer, Nlyte.
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The pace in which technology is advancing makes it near impossible to predict what the business landscape will look like in five years’ time. One thing is for certain: IT requirements are changing and will continue to do so for the unforeseeable future. By Tom Adams, Director of Product Marketing at Cogeco Peer 1.
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