Various factors, including natural disasters and human error, can cause power outages in your data centre. More importantly, they can often result in a service break, equipment damage and significant monetary loss.
Accidents, downed power lines, grid over-demands, lightning strikes and other natural disasters can all act as catalysts for power outages. With this in mind, checking your UPS work and ensuring your generator responds appropriately is essential. One way of doing this is by simulating a power failure in your facility to ensure the backup generator performs as intended in the event of a power failure.
The thought of a blackout occurring, particularly within a critical moment, is naturally unnerving, so actively simulating a power failure is a decision that shouldn’t be taken lightly.
Some benefits of data centre blackout testing are:
What are the consequences?
The risks involved with having a power outage differ from company to company, as organisations in some sectors stand to lose a lot more than others. Similarly, other factors, such as the equipment housed in your data centre, can pose different risk variants.
One of 2bm’s customers reported they would lose £2m-£3m every hour their power is down. However, it is not just the time the power is down that should be accounted for when calculating your resilience and potential losses, but also the time taken to get systems back up and fully operational again.
Therefore, this would amount to a considerable sum of lost money in that particular customer’s case.
The most innovative data centres are ready for the future
2bm can perform blackout testing on a quarterly or one-off basis.
Omitting to perform data centre blackout tests could leave you in a position where you have complete and uninformed reliance on the operation of your existing kit, potentially leaving you open to significant risk.
Don’t wait until it’s too late, get in touch with our team of experts about regular testing and maintenance, advanced monitoring tools and infrastructure redundancy!
A blackout testing service to assess a facility’s vulnerability to power outages
Performance and business continuity plan in the event of a blackout
Advanced monitoring tools
Infrastructure redundancy
