Data Center Management Mishaps
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According to this "Stupid data center tricks" Network World article, serve room and data center mishaps are caused, more often than not, by human error. The article references a number of mishaps, such as overheated systems that shut down after a worker changed a data center thermostat setting from Fahrenheit to Celsius.
"According to the Uptime Institute, a New York-based research and consulting organization that focuses on data-center performance, human error causes roughly 70% of the problems that plague data centers today. The group analyzed 4,500 data-center incidents, including 400 full downtime events, says Julian Kudritzki, a vice president at the Uptime Institute, which recently published a set of guidelines for operational sustainability of data centers.
"'I'm not surprised," Kudritzki says of the findings. 'The management of operations is your greatest vulnerability, but also is a significant opportunity to avoid downtime. The good news is people can be retrained.'"
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