The 'Sever Room' is the heart of your business IT Infrastructure. All business-critical data, records, security, communications, networking and management systems are centred in the server room making it a vital and valuable resource. The TI Group specialise in making your server room more cost effective and efficient.
How much does you server room cost?
Your Investment in server room equipment and infrastructure combined with the on-going operating costs associated with power, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, security, support and management also make the server room a significant commercial consideration. However, it is extremely rare for any finance department to be able to accurately report on the actual costs that are derived solely from managing the server room.
Taking Control
The TI Group specialise in identifying business risk that relates to IT systems and providing services to address and mitigate those risks, whilst at the same time finding innovative ways to reduce operating overheads and costs.
"We believe that companies want to benefit from knowing exactly how much the server room is costing them and by finding ways to reduce that cost"
At the same time, because of the critical nature of the server room, companies want to be assured that the room remains ‘fit for purpose’ and is secure, reliable, scalable and recoverable. Lastly, but as important, companies now agree that we must all strive to contain our energy consumption, reduce our carbon footprint and find ways to consolidate power-hungry equipment in support of our environment.
Some of the areas examined in the audit include:
- Air conditioning utilisation, performance and cost
- Temperature and humidity controls
- Fire control and management
- Other environmental threats (e.g. water leaks, location, etc.)
- Server power, utilisation and warranty
- UPS capacity, capability and suitability
- Firmware and bios revision checks
- Data backup/restore testing
- Antivirus signature checks
- Windows update audit
- Software licensing audit
- Active directory user audit
- Computer room server hardware audit
- Current server usage
- Future requirements
- Review of power requirements
- Review of computer room security
- Report on current situation and recommendations
- Cable management audit
- Access control audit
- Physical security
- Carbon factor
- Optimisation
