Is Automation Helpful?

Apr 05
2010

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Automation is something that can help the data center services providers to give better service at less operational costs and most important, it improves the performance of data center services. But still, there are lots of organizations which are afraid of adapting automation because of some of the most common misconceptions about automation in data center which are as follows:

Large amount of investments are required for professional consultants and services.

This is what people think about automation in data center that they need a expert staff and various services to bring automation in data center services. There are lots of automation tools which can help the technical staff to start the automation progress and just in few days they can also start with production. This is pretty simple and you don’t need to have long scripts, coding, or any kind of special development.

Job loss of many employees.

IT staff is never removed because of automation. It helps the staff to get free from some of the important tasks and once the staff is free from such tasks, they can easily concentrate on some important and logical working which will be helpful in development of business.

Automation increases the Quality in services.

Automation increases the quality in services and at a same time it makes lots of the tasks easier and lots of organizations thinks that automation is not for all the processes. Automation offered by data center services India can automate whole process or some steps within a process, whichever suits the requirements. You can also add checkpoints at suitable intervals to make it more simple.

Automation will change lots of things.

Automation tools helps in improving the productivity and also helps in automating and arranging all the existing process which takes care of all your existing process and operational measures that are followed in your organization.

What you must know about power equipments of your colocation service provider

Jan 16
2010

The principle factor which decides the uptime for a colocated server is power.sudden power can damage hardware parts  of the servers like mother board,RAM and hard disk power failure can knock down network at times only about 5% colocation service providers have right power equipments most them have equipments which lack redundancy in case one unit fails multiple units manage the load but if it lacks redundancy it will over load the other units and chance of their failure are also possible every thing including ups,power distribution unit,generators,circuit breakers must be redundant and run below capacity .

General problems with colocation service provider

Insufficient generator capacity

Generator capacity should more 1.5 times more than actual load so that it insure safe working without overloading colocation services should be provide with a redundant back up generator in case of main generator fails there should be place where switching of generator can be done fast and easily most of the colocation service provider use low capacity generators at start and with growth of company they keeps on adding new generators this makes multiple points for generators and mostly don’t have common access this increases the shut down time and generators should be well maintained and regularly serviced.

Transfer switch failure

Most of the colocation service provider use mechanical transfer switches to save cost and these are not trustworthy as circuit breakers there should be redundant transfer switches because if transfer switch fails means network down.

Lack of non Redundant UPS

UPS is power provider until generator is is switched on for power supply if UPS did not work properly and quickly even with quality UPS failure is an issue so you must make sure that no UPS gets overloaded and runs below 50% of its capacity and max to max load should 75%  and all units should be serviced regularly.separate power grids and multiple UPS should be designed .

There should redundant parts used in colocation services providing companies so that life of equipment increases and well-maintained and redundant components running below capacity at every part of the system it don’t effect network uptime

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