Data Centre Audits
Senokian often work with clients to provide audits at a number of levels - for technical staff right through to the board level. In most situations we will tailor our data centre audit reports to meet client's exact requirements and address specific issues (we spent the summer of 2007 undertaking a number of location based audits after the flooding in the UK), but in general we work on three levels of data centre audits.
High Level Data Centre Audit
Our high level data centre audit is for organisations looking to gain a quick insight into their current data centre and will help identify any quick wins to improve the facility and long term improvements. These reports are often presented to members of the board. Read More
One day on-site to review the following:
- The location of the site and surrounding infrastructure/buildings
- The layout of the data centre
- Layout of plant - mechanical and electrical
- Service resilience
Our report will include the following:
- Provide detailed report of findings
- Identify quick wins to improve the environment
- Summarise longer term improvements
Standard Data Centre Audit
Our standard data centre audits offer a more in-depth look at your data centre and includes everything our high level audit inspects. Read More
One to two days on-site looking at the data centre in more detail:
- Site location
- Data centre layout
- Resilient services (Data, power and water)
- Building design, structure and adjacencies
- Mechanical and electrical plant
- Age of system
- Functionality
- Maintenance regime
- Scalability and flexibility
- Capacity
- Remaining serviceable life
- Power supplies
- UPS, generator/s and transformers
- Wiring
- Risk
- Hidden costs
- Data centre management
- Data centre security
- Data centre and Operational strategy
- Provide detailed report of findings
- Identify strengths and weaknesses
- Summarise ways to improve and enhance the facility
Low Level Data Centre Audit
Our low level data centre audits help clients get a firm understanding of their existing infrastructure and the way the should be running their facility. Read More
Three to ten days on-site, everything in the Standard Audit plus:
- Document every asset in the data centre, recording location, make, model, asset number, system name (if shown)
- Detailed records of plant, including analysis of data history
- Review of operational practices
- Provide detailed report of findings
- Provide asset information
- Summarise ways to improve and enhance the facility