Data Center Assessment
Ensure Your Data Center Facility Meets Current and Future Business Needs
CSC Data Center Assessment gives you a detailed view of your data center, to identify areas for improvement, and make recommendations helping you meet your business and IT objectives.
How do you ensure you’re getting the best out of your data center?
CSC Data Center Assessment is a vendor-independent assessment of the physical facility and operating practices of your current or prospective data center. It reviews the physical facilities: power, cooling, security, processes and procedures. At the end of the assessment we will provide you with a report based on our findings that:
- Details the current state of your data center and links it to an Uptime Institute Tier
- Outlines 'quick wins'—improvements you can achieve rapidly and with little investment
- Provides recommendations on how to align your data center with your stated business and IT objectives
Our experts spend time at your site, interviewing business and IT stakeholders to understand their objectives, and analyzing the current condition of your data center against those objectives to identify any gaps. A detailed examination of the physical data center covers:
- The site itself—its location and any related risk or vulnerability
- Construction of the building
- Security arrangements for site access
- Power—infrastructure, redundancy and resilience
- Mechanical, electrical and cooling capacity and effectiveness, including scope for future growth
- Computer rooms—including environment, size and layout
- Computer hardware—high level observation of computer technologies and racks
Benefits: Reduce Operating Costs, Improve Compliance and Prepare for the Future
Implementing our recommendations could:
- Raise your data center's capability and performance in line with business requirements
- Contribute to operational cost savings and your green IT agenda
- Help you improve data center resilience and reduce risk
- Support your data center vision and strategy
- Help you prepare for future change or site relocation
- Assist in preparations for external audits of regulatory compliance
