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The concentration of data leads to the accumulation of risks. The data center and business continuity plan are far from ready, and the consequences of system disasters will be expanded; the IT service system and talent construction of the data center seriously lag behind the hardware infrastructure construction; the data center and disaster recovery center bear huge capital pressure, and the investment income is not obvious; the energy consumption of the data center increases in direct proportion to the scale of the data center, and the energy saving pressure increases. These issues may seem scattered, but they are in fact key factors closely related to data center performance. The performance of the data center basically has the following two aspects: one is to ensure that the key services carried by the education center are carried out reliably and smoothly. The second is to effectively reduce management and operating costs on the premise of achieving the above objectives.

As a strategic investment, data center construction has basically formed a consensus, but after a huge amount of investment, it still faces various problems and risks, facing a series of challenges such as rapid expansion of data volume, serious shortage of space, high operation cost, large energy consumption, poor security and low business continuity. How to extricate from complex and heavy maintenance upgrades and a large amount of subsequent capital investment, optimize the proportion of IT expenditure in revenue, achieve the expected results with the most reasonable IT expenditure, and ensure and improve the operation and maintenance management performance of data centers is an urgent problem to be solved now.

According to a foreign CIO survey, 70% of respondents believe that power and cooling issues are one of the biggest problems facing their data center operations management, and energy costs in IT budgets have soared from 8% to 48%. In the United States, three years of pure energy consumption is already equivalent to equipment acquisition costs. In Europe, the three-year net energy cost is twice the cost of equipment. Electricity consumption has become the absolute largest part of IT spending, so energy saving needs to start from the work bit by bit.

How to reduce the complexity of data center management, make the system easier to manage, well can carry out early warning management, reduce risk, this is also the main problem we are facing at present. Each unit just buys hardware equipment blindly, thinking about how to make the power meet the demand. With the passage of time, the purchase of hardware has basically reached saturation, considering the cost issue, managers should pay more attention to how to make these equipment fully effective, business integration, full utilization of equipment, daily energy saving, that is to say. "Operation" is the most important thing.

In addition, establishing an efficient operation and maintenance service team is also an important factor to improve the efficiency of data center operation and maintenance management. Data center involves a variety of equipment types, including monitoring, fire protection, decoration, furniture, UPS power distribution, air conditioning refrigeration, fresh air ventilation, strong and weak cables, lightning protection grounding, network, safety equipment, storage, server, etc. Each type of product has software and hardware, with many product brands, types, nodes and systems, covering many technologies and contents to be mastered. The requirements for each person in this team are very high, because there are few internal personnel, and some equipment needs more professional technicians to do operation and maintenance work, so it needs the support and cooperation of external professionals to supplement, which is especially important.

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