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Top 10 Mistakes in Data Center Operations and Maintenance

By George Melas AIA posted Dec 03, 2012 03:15 PM

  

Selecting the right design and construction team for any facility is crucial but even more so for  a data center. But the buck does not stop when the building is up. The human factor in maintaining reliability and availability in Data Centers (as reported in Schneider Electric white paper) is equally important.  After all, downtime can cost your company thousands of $$$ per hour so better pay attention to properly organize the Operational phase.  Top 10 mistakes listed below:

Big Mistake #1: Not including your operations team in facility design

Big Mistake #2: Relying too much on data center design

Big Mistake #3: Failure to correctly address the staffing requirement

Big Mistake #4: Failure to train and develop your talent

Big Mistake #5: Failing to consistently drill and test skills

Big Mistake #6: Failure to overlay your operations program with

documented processes and procedures

Big Mistake #7: Failure to implement appropriate processes and

Procedures

 

Big Mistake #8: Failure to develop and implement Quality Systems

 

Big Mistake #9: Failure to use software management tools

 

Big Mistake #10: Thinking you can build a best in breed program as

quickly as a data center

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