Data Centre Audits

DATA CENTRE DESIGN : AUDIT : TRAINING

DATA CENTRE AUDIT

DATA CENTRE DESIGN

DATA CENTRE TRAINING

Using the practical experience derived by Capitoline from auditing and designing computer rooms and data centres we can offer an in-depth audit that covers all the major requirements for correct operation, best practice and improvement programmes.

Every two weeks, somewhere in the world, a major data centre suffers a major breakdown and loss of availability with an average downtime of 17 hours. In nearly every case these breakdowns are avoidable with better design and procedures in place. Our audit experience covers large and small data centres both in the private and public sector in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Africa and the Middle East.

Our audits are based on best practices drawn from our own experience and relevant extracts from international engineering and business continuity standards including

- TIA 942, EU Code of Conduct on data centres, Payment Card Industry security requirements PCI-DSS, BICSI 002, The UpTime Institute, ASHRAE, EU Disability Discrimination Directive, EN 50173, EN 50174, ISO 27002,

We can customise our audit to your own requirements or alternative you can just opt for our standard audit which covers the principal requirements of technical adherence to standards, resilience, Health & Safety requirements and energy management. All audits come with a full report and improvement plan. The audits can then be further ‘tuned’ to focus on areas of greatest interest to the customer.

For example you may want an audit against the

EU Code of Conduct for data centres

or to establish your Tier rating for resilience or perhaps to measure you energy efficiency or carbon emmissions.

Our audit portfolio includes;

-TIA 942 Audit. Assessment and tier certification to the ANSI-TIA-942 standard

-TUI Audit. Assessment to the UpTime Institute Tier standard

-Energy Audit. Assessment and certification to the Green Grid metrics and EU Code of Conduct requirements

-Business Continuity Audit. Assessment and certification to the AMS-IX business continuity requirements and ISO27002 and PCI-DSS physical requirements

-Health & safety audit. Assessment and certification to EU H&S requirements, environmental conditions and access for the disabled requirements

-EMC & RFI audit. Assesment to electromagnetic and radio frequency interference requirements for safe human exposure and reliable operation of IT equipment

Capitoline audit customers include;

King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

National Oil Corporation of Angola

Alghanim Industries, Kuwait

Interxion, Netherlands

EUnetworks, Netherlands

SARA/VANCIS Netherlands

Fibernet, Netherlands

Equinix, Netherlands

Global Switch, Netherlands

NIKHEF, Netherlands

Telecity, Netherlands