27 Per Cent Of Data Centre Downtime Link To Power Failure

TO reduce the increasing data centre downtime, put at over 27 per cent as a result of power challenges, expert has advised corporate organisations, including banks; telecommunications firms; oil and gas as well as universities to adopt green agenda in the deployment of data centres.

This advice was given in Lagos at the weekend by a renowned UK based Data Centre expert, Matt Flowerday at KITS technologies and Capitoline LLP of UK organized data centre training.

Flowerday said data centres are the engine rooms that run today’s global digital economy, which houses the cloud. He said data centres consume vast amounts of energy.

Quoting a recent report, Flowerday said about 84 major data centre suffered failures in the past 36 months, adding that a rough estimate shows that a data centre goes down every two weeks with an average downtime of 15 hours per key incident.

According to him, about 27 per cent of these failures are due largely to power, stressing that energy utilizations were grossly inefficient leading to astronomical rise in temperature within the data centre which eventually ground the data centre.

The UK based expert explained that in nearly every case, these breakdowns are avoidable with better design, specifications and processes, policies and procedures put in place.

“Hence, a vital strategic trust of the weeklong certification training was aimed at reducing these likelihoods in data centres in Nigeria. The training adequately exposesd participants from colocation data centers on how to make their data centre energy efficient and ensure profitability by saving energy in a country like Nigeria where energy management is extremely crucial. In addition, critical prerequisites that would guarantee proper and efficient running of data centre were proffered”, he stated.

Besides, he said the training was organized to ensure that existing data centers’ are run and operated successfully based on best practice and standards in operational management that would include processes, policies and procedures as an originally designed tier 3 data centre could be run like a tier 1 data centre if proper policies and procedures are not followed in the day to day run of the data centre.

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