Presented by Miles Milner Swiftbase International

1. BusinessContinuity and Environmental monitoring Presented by Miles Milner Swiftbase International

2. Subjects covered: Meltdown - How much a disaster could cost? The Dangers! – Heat and other causes that will damage your server room. How to protect your server room(s) How to deploy climate monitors and sensors.

3. Challenges ahead: IT professionals-pressures with information and system availability. Planning for unexpected is a monumental task. Challenges are compounded when you consider that more and more IT assets you manage are in less than desirable environments.

4. Planning for the unexpected There are more systems performing mission-critical tasks than ever before. These systems are being developed in sub-optimal environments without the proper environmental infrastructure to support them.

5. Planning for the unexpected Equipment density in these locations is increasing exponentially, producing more stress on ventilation and power. These systems are often unattended or managed by non-IT professionals

6. Acuity Example-The $150K meltdown

7. The $150K Thermostat Marketing left it on 35 C over the weekend

8. The $150K Thermostat By Sunday The server Room Had a Meltdown

9. The server room before • Clip art from the UK, not the real room

10. The server room after • Clip art from the UK, not the real room

11. All the gear was dead The equipment didn't look dead. It looked the same as it did three days ago. No burn marks, no melted faceplates. Even the Cisco logos on the routers were still shiny white. However all the gear was dead. The meltdown at Acuity software spurred development of low-cost server room monitors - a true story.

12. The cost of the meltdown

13. Cost of re-installing

14. Total Lost

15. Every day we get calls from companies who thought they had enough monitoring in place and didn’t. You may think, yes but our UPS does monitoring….BUT what if that breaks (electrical spike)….you NEED independent monitoring. You need independent monitoring and the good news - its not expensive

16. Threats and risks to your server rooms…

17. The big 7 IT environmental factors.

18. Only 16% of all data centers, did not realize such environmental problems last year. The key question for you is when the disaster will come and how it will cost to you?

20. Space Heater Heating power output = 1000 W

21. Source of Heat 1000w is multiplied throughout cab

22. UPS: Helps Fry Gear A/C outlet Equipment UPS • 1 hour of no air conditioning

23. Heat Gain Calculations Dry air specs: Temp   Density        Specific heat        C         kg/m^3            kJ/(kg*C)            kJ/(m^3*C) 20        1.205            1.005                    1.211 40        1.127            1.005                    1.133 Step 1 Calculate Specific Heat: A 3x3x2 meter room is 18 cubic-meters, which at 20C gives 18*1.211 kJ/C = 21.8 kJ/C Step 2. Inverting to get C/kJ we have   0.0459 C/kJ 10kW = 10kJ/sec  therefore:  10kW dumped into 3x3x2 meter room at 20C will change by (10kJ/sec * 0.0459 C/kJ) Or up 0.459 deg Celsius per second

24. Heat Rise in Celsius 48.88 Non-Reversible Damage (Toast) 43.33 40.5 Damage Begins, Shutdowns, "Flaky" Operation 35 32.22 29.44 26.66 23.8 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 18.3

25. All big IT equipment providers, such as IBM, HP and Cisco, tell you never to operate their products over 29,5 C, otherwise you start to harm your expensive equipment and reduce its MTBF (medium time before failure) and its life.

26. Climate Monitors How to address the problem, the product; • Low Cost • Connect to Network • Built-in Web Server • Built-in Sensors • Real Time Data • Easy to deploy • Work with Webcams • Insurance Policy • Assign IP address • Web page interface • Notify via email or text message. • Supports Multiple Sensors • Monitor several rooms with one device

28. Instrumentation Remote Temp Sensor Temp, Humidity, Airflow

29. Smoke Alarm

30. More Sensors Water Snake (Tyco) Door Position

31. More Sensors City Power Monitor

32. Use Multiple Sensors

33. A/C Efficiency Record long term stats See the warning signs long in advance of disaster 18.3c 32.2c

34. Water Slow or fast, The key is to stop it quickly

35. Sprinklers You wont have these in your server or network room but you might have the pipes to other parts of the building in the ceiling.

36. Tray Water Collectors Common – so drop in a water sensor

37. Water Sensor Very easy to install Inexpensive Highly effective

39. Video Camera Motion detect Easy to install IP Based

40. IP Video Cameras Images recorded and motion detection facilities Still (JPEG) and moving (Active-X client)

41. Motion Zones

42. Multiple Room Sensors

43. Alarm Notification

44. NOC Software

45. Web interface;

46. Web HTML - no client

47. Alarms

49. Max Temp Globally

50. Summary The $150K Sunday meltdown - the cost of new server room equipment. Replacing the gear, reloading the software. Weeks of down-time. Heat: the big problem. Water and unwanted visitors will also bring you down. Would you rather pay $150K or $400?