Reliability on datacenter
The ultimate goal of a data center is ultimately to provide a continuous service, 24/7. For this reason, the reliability of all the systems (power supply, UPS, cooling) must be ensured and, in addition to the quality of the components, it is necessary to provide a certain degree of “redundancy” to all systems, ensuring that the failure of a component does not cause an interruption of the service. The Uptime Institute has developed the “Tier” classification to describe the reliability level of a data center.
Different levels of “Tier” provide ever increasing levels of redundancy and complexity, with the ultimate goal of drastically reducing the “downtime” of a data center, due to accident or human error.
