Data Center Risk Assessment

Enterprise IT is undergoing transformational change due to new industry growth and trends, including:

• The adoption of hybrid infrastructures.
• The race to support an increasingly global customer base.
• Rapid consolidation of colocation providers.
• Rise in rack density to support compute intensive workloads, AI, IoT, cyptocurrencies, virtual reality.
• Explosive growth in the public cloud market.

These rapid changes, paired with a data center labor shortage,mean data center owners and enterprise IT teams rely on data centers with new owners, staff, equipment and risks that may not align with business needs.

Uptime Institute has a team of global consultants who have certified and inspected thousands of enterprise-grade data center facilities around the world. Our data center risk assessment product will bring our industry expertise directly to you, resulting in a fast and comprehensive assessment of your facility's infrastructure, mechanical systems and operations protocols. We can perform these assessments on your owned and operated facilities or work with your colocation and cloud partners to perform third-party assessments on their sites that are running your critical IT load.

Assessment is an Important Element in your Risk Management Plan

Data centers need a comprehensive risk management plan before problems occur. A data center risk assessment by Uptime Institute's Data Center Risk Assessment will evaluate your existing facility, critical system outage and data center portfolio planning. Your assessment outcome will be a set of objective, actionable recommendations for risk mitigation and remediation to close any gaps and align your site's infrastructure and operations with your business requirements and the latest industry best practices. These recommendations become a key component of your risk management plan.

Why Conduct a Risk Assessment?

You need to know that your data center is equipped to perform reliably over time. Many data center owners attempt to conduct their own data center risk assessments. However, in the process, they often overlook important risk factors and weaknesses in facility design. We have discovered that more than 80% of the designs and constructions we assess have significant issues that went unrecognized internally. To prevent inexperience and unintentional bias from sabotaging your facility's success, consider a risk assessment by Uptime Institute.

A risk assessment with Uptime Institute will help you identify your security vulnerabilities and enact a plan to eliminate them. Complete protection means that your data will stay secure, allowing you to use your infrastructure efficiently. A risk assessment can help you financially prepare for upgrades and innovations as your business grows.

At Uptime Institute, we conduct risk assessments with experienced and objective experts. These risk assessment professionals bring an outside perspective that allows them to more accurately identify flaws in a facility's design. At the end of the risk assessment process, you can feel confident that the inspector has considered every possible infrastructure constraint and given your data center an appropriate Tier rating. Allowing an objective party to perform a risk assessment will help reassure business investors that you are committed to following best practices.

Contact the Experts at Uptime Institute Today

Uptime Institute offers professional services designed to provide you with expert guidance for the operation and management of your data center. Risk assessment is one of the many ways we can help. In addition to risk assessment, we also have the ability to provide Data Center Tier Certification and education for engineers, architects and data center managers. Reach out to us on our website today to take the first step toward strengthening your valuable infrastructure.