Common Data Center Power Problems That Cause Downtime

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Common Data Center Power Problems That Cause Downtime

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Common Data Center Power Problems That Cause Downtime

Running a top-notch data center is a must for any business looking to stay ahead of the competition in this digital era. However, numerous power problems can pop up and cause downtime, leaving your business behind schedule and risking critical business functions.

It’s essential to be aware of common issues, so you can address them before they occur. This blog post will delve into the most frequent power failures within data centers and outline how best to assess their performance with ease!

What Causes Power Problems?

Power complications can arise internally and externally, yet equipment and processes typically cause most issues within a data center. Power supply interference can come from different things:

  • Voltage transients and surges
  • Voltage swells, sags, and spikes
  • Voltage imbalance or fluctuations
  • Power frequency variation
  • Poor facility grounding

From load fluctuations to breaker malfunctions, short circuits, and ground faults – power quality issues can cause major hardware damage or even the loss of essential equipment. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all electrical systems are regularly maintained to prevent such potential disasters.

What Can You Do To Avoid Issues?

Appropriate equipment: It is crucial to ensure that your equipment can handle the load. With scalable UPS systems in place, you will be prepared for upcoming developments while limiting the risk of power failure. Investing in modular/scalable UPS systems allows your facility to stay ahead of future demands.

Environment: The environment is one of the most overlooked aspects regarding data center power quality. The temperature and humidity can affect the function of your machines. You should use cooling systems suitable for your facility’s size and capacity.

Partner With Data Center Advisors: Data center advisors such as Premier Data Center Services, can help create plans to tackle any power problem, from assessment to maintenance and preventive measures. Premier offers data center services tailored to meet your needs and budget requirements.

Get A Data Center Assessment Today!

If you have been experiencing any power issues or want to optimize your data center’s performance, now is the time to get a data center assessment. At Premier Data Center Services, we will create a recommended plan of remediation to ensure your systems and operations are running at optimal levels. With our extensive knowledge and expertise in this field, you can be sure that we will deliver an effective and reliable solution. Don’t wait any longer; contact us today!

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“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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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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