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Category: Data Center Design
Human Error, Downtime and Design
Rob McClary is the Senior Vice President & General Manager at FORTRUST.
If one of the leading causes of data center outages is human error, why do we spend so much time focused on the tier classification or rating of a data center? I would agree that the design plays an important part in reliability, but it’s a small part relative to people, process, operations, maintenance, lifecycle and risk mitigation strategies.
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