1. Choose a device suitable for the size of workload within the system.
Nowadays, there are many Data Centers that are smaller due to the coming of the Cloud that makes many businesses decide to move to lease the Cloud service instead and cancel the use of the existing internal system, making the existing Data Center Less work to process and less data to store.
Various system modifications Optimized for the reduced workload, this will lead to higher cost-effectiveness of data center maintenance, especially in terms of power and cooling. Including the management of various existing systems, so the organization may have to explore and plan to adjust the use of their resources to suit the remaining system today. This may be able to turn off a lot of different hardware. and significantly reduce the expenses incurred each month.
2. Adopting IoT to improve data center maintenance methods.
With the Internet of Things (IoT) technology available today. Monitoring and maintenance of IT systems within the data center can now be more accurate than ever with the information generated by detection within the data center itself, allowing organizations to make decisions to adjust systems within the data center without Have to wait for the manufacturer or seller to give advice. Or may decide not to change the system from the available information. This makes the investment cycle of IT systems within the Data Center change from the past and make every piece of hardware worth the most at the same time.
3. Keep the IT department happy, don’t cause frequent resignation.
The most important factor that will make the maintenance of the Data Center the most efficient is is to have personnel who understand various systems very well and can perform various tasks quickly Accurate decision making, resulting in the lowest downtime, so investing in existing personnel is considered one of the more cost-effective alternatives than other methods. which covers the determination of the Career Path of each employee to be able to grow continuously or training employees to have new knowledge and always work with higher efficiency Including giving importance to the results that occur from maintaining these data centers continuously will be another way to build good morale at work.
4. Training for specific knowledge for the data center of the organization.
In addition to training new technologies. that occur continuously each day It is also important to create courses to train employees on the technology, architecture, and processes of an organization’s data center. Both in terms of reviewing current employees to continuously update what has changed in the data center and training new employees to be able to perform their duties better. Including these trainings, it may extend the life of various devices within the Data Center to be longer. And as a result, the organization can better save expenses in the long run.
5. Must manage resources that are available everywhere. day regularly.
Nowadays, with the speed of business Consequently, changes occur in the Data Center regularly. Even though originally the Data Center administrators didn’t want to change anything inside the Data Center because the system was already designed and optimized to work well. But with changes that occur faster, such as moving systems to the Cloud, opening new technology testing systems, various departments Bringing new technologies into use, etc. Analyzing and improving the Data Center so that it can work at full efficiency today has become a task that must be given more importance than before. Therefore, the overall management cycle of the entire data center usage should be shortened. In order to make the overall value of the system higher.