The concept of mission-critical infrastructure rather implies the existence of frivolous infrastructure. Given that businesses do not spin up servers for a laugh, however, what it really means is that some infrastructure is so crucial for operations that its loss, even temporarily, will grind operations to a halt. But what kind of systems are typically designated as mission critical?
For example, the perimeter security might fail or even lighting might fail, but so long as the computer servers and storage device’s function and communicate then the primary function is maintained. Secondly, Forde said, it is the ‘power brain’ sensing any grid outage and instantly taking action to maintain power through its large battery energy storage.
“The UPTIME institute note, in data centres, the rate of outages is generally falling relative to the increasing number of data centres. But still, of operators surveyed, 60 per cent reported outages in the last three years. 66 per cent of these were negligible to minimal with 30 per cent ranking as significant to severe,” he said.
To best address continuity of power, businesses need to look beyond the traditional building blocks of design, where individual components and equipment are mixed and matched. Instead, taking a systems approach where the whole end to end infrastructure is considered within the design phase provides a finely tuned engineered system.
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