I just saw this very interesting article on Information Week regarding a study of outages at U.S.-based data centers by the Ponemon Institute.

According to the study, data center failures cost an average of $5,600.00 per minutes. WOW - that is an incredible statistic. The article also goes on to say that respondents of this survey said the primary causes for unplanned outages include uninterruptible power supply (UPS) battery failure, water, heat, or cooling failure; and generator failure.

Check out the article at: http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/data_centers/229500121?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All

Have you had any outages in your data center recently? If so, let us know what the primary cause for the outage was?

If they were caused by UPS battery, HVAC or generator failure - do you currently have regular preventive maintenance on these systems? Or what about battery trending or infrared thermography to find problems before they turn into an outage. If not, contact us - we can come out and do an assessment of your power and cooling to help you understand where you may run into problems in the future.