The Data Center is an integral and essential part of an organization’s and we need to ensure the safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of a Data Center, periodic security assessment or auditing of IT hardware, peripheral and security equipment, and supporting hand from corporate services such as power and cooling is required.
Data centers must up and running maximum time. Outages of Data Center can be expensive in both financial and Business terms. Data centers need to be organized to prevent such problems or at least to detect them at the earliest possible. Also best way to handle using failover Mechanism. Data center must equipment with Environmental sensor as it will have many different types Equipment which will generate Heat and other Air pollution.
Below are the Main Category where you need to focus while building Data Center or review Data center Checklist , Details Checklist available for download in below link.
- Datacenter operating policies and procedures.
- Capacity planning , power and AC requirements.
- Physical security controls , Access card , CCTV .
- Rack layout/Asset deployment.
- Environmental controls.
- Incident management.
- Infrastructure maintenance.
- Cabling, rack, and telecommunications management.
- Asset , Equipment Logistics and Movement
- Service monitoring and availability management.
- Business continuity management.
- Disaster recovery planning
- Power supply adequacy and redundancy
- Security and emergency procedures