News > Unique 4 day data centre surgery improves efficiency and resilience
From Capitoline’s international practical experience gained by auditing and designing small and large computer rooms and data centres both in the private and public sector comes this unique 4-day surgery. The surgery combines on site training with an audit of the computer room or data centre to determine how it matches up to best practices and to identify short and long term improvements.
The client's entire data centre team learn how to improve the efficiency and resilience of their data centre or computer room.
The Workshop comprises two days of training to create a good understanding of the essential principles of good data centre design and operational management followed by a day auditing the facility. The final day is then spent using the information from the audit to determine the suitability of the layout, power, cooling systems and cabling infrastructure and to plan improvements which could be made in the short and long term to improve the efficiency and resilience of the facility. Following completion of the workshop the client also receives a full audit report from a specialist Capitoline consultant.
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. The workshop is aimed at reducing the likelihood of the client's facility becoming one of them.
“This is a unique opportunity for data centre teams to learn from the experts and apply this immediately to their own facility with assistance from the same experts,” says Matt Flowerday, Capitoline Partner, "There are a number of standard courses at which you can learn the theory, of which Capitoline is the leading provider, but this new surgery put theory into practice in the client's own environment."