Why Server Room Environmental Monitoring is Important

Server room equipment gets expensive when you calculate the numbers. Servers and server racks are themselves aren’t cheap and when you add the business value of the server room equipment, it is invaluable. When a company relies on its servers for business, any downtime could turn into a disaster.

A simple water leak from an air conditioner could cause serious damage to servers. Or perhaps the summer heat is so hot and humid, the air conditioner cannot keep up to remove all the water vapor or heat from the server room. Maybe there was even a fire that occurred overnight. 

One may think, why use an environmental monitoring system if we could actually see the problem ourselves? That’s not a very proactive environmental monitoring strategy. Of course these environmental hazards could occur at anytime. Server rooms are most vulnerable during after-office hours and on weekends when there are no personnel in the office. You can’t always depend on the neighborhood watch to see that the facility has burned to the ground because at that point, it doesn’t matter. Insurance can help cover that, but the downtime is the worst enemy.

The major causes of unexpected downtime are environmental hazards, failure of power supply, human error or deliberate tampering. Due to upgrades in security monitoring, tampering servers for mischievous purposes does not happen often. Server downtime is more often caused by the environment; that includes faulty air conditioners that allow temperature and humidity levels rise, or water damage in the ceiling that drips onto servers. Any environmental hazard or power failures can happen and has happened.

That is why environmental monitoring systems exist to monitor the environment while employees are not physically in the office. A serious environmental condition can be handled before it gets out of control. Make sure your server room is protected and monitored at all times. Visit Ravica today!

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