The lack of predictability characterizes calamity. If your business has a strong plan for dealing with disasters, it will have a better chance of avoiding a situation that could be bad for its operations.
These are important components for data centers. Your service provider should have certified professionals on staff whose job it is to set up and review plans for preventing disasters.
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Think Ahead
Your data center must be technologically updated at all times. What is valuable now may not be useful in a few years. Ask about things like:
- Are there cloud services?
- Are cloud services linked directly to AWS?
- Can I save money by using this data center’s equipment?
Prepare ahead of time for upgrades. The quantity of energy used by a data center may be used to assess its bandwidth capacity.
24/7 Support and Surveillance
You should always be able to easily and consistently monitor how your servers and data are being used. This is something you should be able to accomplish. Knowing how much bandwidth is being utilized, how much storage is available, how much physical floor space is available, and whether or not there have been any outages is only the tip of the iceberg. To achieve total openness, ask the following questions while assessing a data center:
