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WWW.7X24EXCHANGE.ORGIf the power went off at a data center in the
final moments of the Super Bowl, fans in the
stands might not notice. But all of the twitter
users and live bloggers feeding their
thoughts into cyberspace through that data
center certainly would. and the maintenance
manager for the facility could easily become
the goat of the game.
to avoid such disastrous scenarios,
maintenance professionals at data centers
schedule crucial preventive Maintenance
(pM) tasks so they do not run the risk of
disrupting business activity for their
clients–whether those clients are social
media companies experiencing peak volumes
during a sporting event or stock brokerages
buying and selling on a busy trading day.
the best tool for managing those pMs is a
modern Computerized Maintenance
Management System (CMMS). essentially a
software solution for managing and tracking
maintenance activities, CMMS automates a
variety of functions that keep data centers
running smoothly.
at ragingWire, a world-class data colocation
service based in California, a CMMS eases
the burden of maintaining dozens of
generators and UpS units as well as several
hundred cooling units at the company’s
various data center facilities.
“When I started 13 years ago, we relied on
spreadsheets and tribal knowledge for
knowing when we last fixed a piece of
equipment and when we needed to fix it
again,” said Chris thames, Sr., Director of
Critical Facilities operations at ragingWire.
“We needed to automate that process with a
CMMS.”
Understanding the various capabilities of a
CMMS enhances the ability of data center
managers to reap the benefits of using this
key tool in their day-to-day operations, in
place of spreadsheets or paper binders. Here
is a closer look at those capabilities:
THE DREADED DOWNTIME
Preventive Maintenance Keeps Data Centers Running without Disrupting Business
by
Paul Lachance