||Total resilience is the Holy Grail for professional data centre operators, and it is driven by a strong company culture and a mindset focused equally on collaboration and delivery. Perhaps the single most important characteristic of a data centre – whether it is your own on-premise infrastructure or one run by a specialist data centre provider – is that of resilience. Despite this being such a vital aspect of the data centre, achieving unparalleled resilience is no easy task. Stephane Duproz, CEO of Africa Data Centres, explains that a few years ago, redundancy was seen as the best way to ensure a data centre was capable of ongoing operations. He suggests that such redundancy meant ensuring that there were extra hardware and equipment on hand as a replacement, in case of failure. “Of course, in today’s 24/7/365 world of business, this type of redundancy – although still necessary – is only a small part of what it means to be truly resilient. For the modern data centre, uptime is absolutely critical. No data centre can afford to be down for any length of time, meaning that cooling systems and power are equally critical and require some level of redundancy,” he […]
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