Server Room Health Check

As well as being the driving force behind your enterprise, your server room can also be a drain on your finances through substantial overhead costs. The TI Group server room health check examines all aspects of server room operation and ensures that day-to-day costs are minimised, and that performance is optimised.

Your server room is the hub of your whole operation, housing business-critical data, records, security systems, communications, networking and management systems, and infrastructure hardware. However, as well as driving your whole operation, your server room also impacts your finances through expensive overheads such as power, heating, ventilating, air-conditioning, security, support and management.

So it’s not surprising that many finance departments find it difficult to accurately quantify bottom line server room operating costs.

The TI Group specialises in identifying business risks relating to IT systems, and providing services to address and mitigate these risks. We also find innovative ways to reduce overheads and operating costs.

As well as covering financial considerations, we also draw on our substantial infrastructure expertise to ensure that the server room is secure, reliable and scalable, with guaranteed recoverability in the event of a major problem.

Finally, with environmental issues high on the corporate agenda, the TI Group works with enterprises to reduce their carbon footprint by using less energy and consolidating power-hungry equipment wherever possible.

Due to its central role in the enterprise, it is critical that regular audits are in place to identify and avert any threats to the security, practices and continuity of the server room. The TI Group’s portfolio of Health Check service modules has been extended to include a Server Room Audit. This covers all elements of server room operation:

• 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

Contact the TI Group now to find out how we can help you.