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The
threat of interruption or unplanned downtime can be greatly reduced
through the careful choice of location and good design. IBM Business
Continuity and Recovery Services has provided Continuity Central
with a comprehensive white paper which explores the principle design
considerations and offers some useful checklists.
The paper includes:
• Data centre selection checklist
• Primary selection criteria – location
• Secondary Selection Criteria – The Building
• Data centre design and construction
• Communications requirements
• Electrical requirements
• Cooling requirements
• Automatic fire suppression
• Environmental monitoring
• Physical security requirements
• Other factors
• Build strategy
• European standard EN1047
• Salutary tales and reminders
Read
Resilient data centre selection and design (PDF)

•Date:
13th January 2005 •Region: UK/World •Type:
Article •Topic: IT
continuity
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