Best Practices For Preventing Data Center Outages

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Best Practices For Preventing Data Center Outages

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Maintaining data center uptime is a challenge enterprises can’t overlook. The repercussions of data center outages are significant, impacting operations, customer trust, and revenue.

At Premier Data Center Services, we understand the criticality of uninterrupted operations. In this article, we’ll delve into the reasons behind data center outages and share invaluable best practices to prevent them.

The Reasons Behind Data Center Outages: A Multifaceted Challenge

Data center outages can stem from many factors – from hardware failures and software glitches to power fluctuations and environmental concerns. Regardless of the cause, the consequences are uniformly detrimental. Premier Data Center Services recognizes that a holistic approach is essential for mitigating the risks of outages.

Best Practices For Preventing Data Center Outages

  • Regular Resiliency Analysis: Conducting routine resiliency analyses across data center components helps identify vulnerabilities before they escalate.
  • Temperature Monitoring: Monitoring temperature is paramount to prevent equipment breakdown or shutdown due to overheating. Implementing sophisticated cooling systems and real-time monitoring tools ensures optimal conditions for hardware.
  • Comprehensive Power Management: Implement redundant power systems and uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) to safeguard against power-related outages.

The Preventable Nature Of Data Center Outages With Premier’s Data Center Assessments

Data center outages are preventable with proactive assessments and meticulous execution of best practices. With the right evaluation, businesses can significantly enhance their data center’s resilience and minimize the risk of costly downtime. Premier offers a comprehensive and innovative solution.

Unlock the full potential of your data center with Premier’s comprehensive evaluation. Our experts will assess your space layout, power distribution, HVAC systems, and operations to establish a baseline for capabilities and risks. You’ll receive a tailored plan for remediation, ensuring optimal performance for your systems and operations. 

With our analysis, you’ll gain a comprehensive view of your data center and a roadmap for enhancements that will immediately boost your facility’s performance.

Contact Premier Today: A Data Center Services Provider With The Expertise You Need

The stakes of data center outages are high, but the power to prevent them lies in adopting best practices and proactive measures. With Premier’s Data Center Assesments, data center management is seamless, fast, and effective. Contact us today and learn how we can help keep your operations running smoothly. 

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Featured Testimonial

“Premier Data Center Services performed unbelievably when moving our infrastructure and equipment from one facility to another in the Boston area. We shut down our servers at 8PM and Mark Dunn’s team broke down our infrastructure, loaded their truck into a pre-designated shelving transport system that they had conceived, drove the equipment to our new location, loaded the new rack, re-cabled the rack – and we were up by 3AM.

Some of the work they did that was surprising to us included the following:

  • The move execution was seamless. With VERY LITTLE input from us, they planned the move, the re-organization and re-cabling of our infrastructure.
  • Prior to the move they guided us through the ordering of power and network cables that are appropriately lengthened for our server locations. Previously, the bottom of our cabinets were a puddle of very long heavy black power cords.
  • They delivered to us an infrastructure that was cabled in an organized way we could have previously only imagined. Over the years servers come and go and the network cabling can become a “rats nest”. When Mark’s team was cabling in the new location, we found that they had pre-sized and pre-labeled every network cable we would need for the new location. Now we have great airflow.

In summary, if your time has any value, you cannot move your own equipment more affordably than with Premier Data Center Services. You will spend countless more hours doing the work that they can execute so quickly because of their experience. Further, even if you wanted to move your own system, there is no way that the end result of your efforts will be an infrastructure of equipment that is so well organized, cabled and labeled.”

Mark BlagdenChief Executive Officer, AccountTECH

About Us

Premier Data Center Services, LLC was established in 2010 by data center experts Mark Dunn and Jim O’Hara. Headquartered near Boston, Massachusetts, Premier provides a full range of data center consulting and managed services including greenfield data center design and construction management, infrastructure optimization, operations and management consulting, migrations and managed services.

Premier’s team has several decades of experience in the managed services field and has successfully completed projects for Fortune 500 and world-renowned organizations in a wide variety market verticals including healthcare, financial, government and academic institutions.

MARK DUNN

Co-Founder & President

 

Mr. Dunn has spent over 30 years in the high technology field, focusing in the design, construction, and operation of computer data centers and critical information technology operations. Mr. Dunn is the co-founder and President of Premier Data Center Services, LLC, a data center consulting and managed services company based in Somerville, MA.

Prior to Premier, Mr. Dunn was Co-Founder and Vice President of Operations of Media Point, Inc. a colocation data center located in Medford, MA. Mr. Dunn also co-founded and was VP of Operations and CTO of Digital Broadband Communications, a competitive local exchange carrier based in Massachusetts.

Before working in private industry, Mr. Dunn worked for the federal government serving as the Technical Director of Information Systems for the US National Ice Center. The National Ice Center is a joint US Government agency oceanography center that provides operational safety life at sea support for the US Navy, Coast Guard and scientific shipping operations in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.

Jim O'Hara

Co-Founder & VP of Operations

 

Mr. O’Hara possesses over 25 years of in-depth Project Management and IT Operations experience in a variety of environments. His expertise includes running major enterprise projects, data center relocations, developing SOPs, managing outsourced data centers, and disaster/recovery planning and implementation.

Mr. O’Hara has serviced large Financial Services clients, major wireless carriers, and a number of clients in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. His experience and expertise have allowed him to develop a proven methodology for managing relocation projects, large and small.

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DATA CENTER STRATEGY

Premier can help you determine your requirements, perform cost/benefit analysis to determine whether to build, outsource or consolidate, determine the return on investment and total cost of ownership, and provide recommendations on the proper course of action.

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DATA CENTER ASSESSMENT

Premier can evaluate the current state of your data center's space layout, power distribution, HVAC systems, and operations to establish a capability and risk baseline. As a result, we will create a recommended plan of remediation to ensure your systems and operations are running at optimal levels.

Premier will develop:

- Current Site Baseline Analysis
- Space Analysis
- Power Distribution Analysis
- HVAC Analysis
- Capacity Analysis
- Risk Analysis
- Operations Analysis

With these analyses, you will have a comprehensive view of your data center’s capabilities, risks and a roadmap for enhancements that can have a measurable and immediate impact of your facility’s performance.

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DATA CENTER DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION

Whether it is new construction, an expansion or a renovation, Premier can help you design and optimize a data center solution that will meet your needs today, with the extensibility to grow with your business.

Leveraging new technologies, we can help you gain greater capacity and density while reducing your overall physical footprint, carbon footprint and costs resulting in significant ROI for your organization.

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DATA CENTER MIGRATIONS & CONSOLIDATIONS

Moving or consolidating a datacenter can be one of the most challenging projects for an IT department to undertake. The complexity of structuring the move, while considering uptime, application interdependency and risk can significantly impact business operations if not executed properly.  

Premier's expertise and Migration Checklist provides an end-to-end solution ensuring the little things don’t get lost in the transition and ensures your organizations migration success.

Our team also includes, structured cabling personnel, specialized movers and network and systems engineers that can assist your staff in bringing routers, SANs, and servers back on line promptly and correctly. Premier is with you every step of the way, ensuring a seamless and well executed migration.

Our core expertise incorporates:

- Data Center Operations
- Network Planning
- Current State Analysis
- Rack and Electrical Load Design
- Logistics Planning and Execution
 

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DATA CENTER OPERATIONS - SMART HANDS

Premier’s Smart Hands solution brings our data center management expertise to your IT organization. This enables our clients to focus their staffs on their core competencies. Proper data center management requires specialized skills and experience. Managing space, power and cooling are skills not commonly found in an IT organization, yet they are critical for successful data center operation.

Premier offers customized, scalable managed data center solutions which can fit any IT budget. Reduce your risk, increase your staff’s efficiency and maximize your data centers utilization with Premier.

View Premier Smart Hands PDF

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FEDERAL AGENCY

- Data Center Relocation Migration
- Strategy, Planning and Execution
- 1 Site, 140 cabinets, 1270 devices

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GLOBAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY

Facilities Relocation

- Data Center
- Top Level Project Management: Move Planning, Move Execution
- 250 devices – 2 Move Events

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UTILITIES SERVICE PROVIDER

Office Relocation

- Data Center Migration
- Project Management: Move Planning, Move Execution
- 400 devices – 5 Move Events

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LARGE MULTI-SPECIALTY MEDICAL CENTER

- Core IT/Data Center Relocation
- Project Management: Planning and Execution
- 1,000 devices/25 staff– 15 Move Events

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GLOBAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY

- Project Management - Global Data Center Strategy Development, Basel, Switzerland
- Project Management - Site Selection, Design & Migration, Emeryville, CA
- 200+ devices, 36 cabinets
- Project Management- Site Selection, Design, Boston, MA
- Disaster Recovery Site, 30 cabinets

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SPECIALTY PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY

- Data Center Design & Build
- Project Manager/SME: Data Center Design, Move Planning
- 2 Sites

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