Avoidable Data Center Mistakes and Simple Remedies
August 17, 2011 No CommentsAvoidable mistakes that are routinely made in data centers or network rooms compromise availability and increase costs. These unintentional slip-ups can create hot-spots, decrease fault tolerance, decrease efficiency, and reduce cooling capacity. Although facilities operators are often held accountable for these problems, many are actually caused by improper deployment of IT equipment outside of their control.
This paper examines typical data center mistakes, explains their principles, quantifies their impacts, and describes simple remedies.