ABSTRACT
Contents Business Requirements and Th reats ......................................................................................... 464 Build or Select an Existing Facility ...........................................................................................465 Physical and Material Supplies ................................................................................................ 466
Facility ................................................................................................................................ 466 Environmental .................................................................................................................... 468 Eff ective Physical Security ................................................................................................... 469 TIA-942 ............................................................................................................................. 469
Conclusion ...............................................................................................................................470 About the Author .....................................................................................................................470
mental conditions should be to ensure IT obtains the most productivity from equipment. At some time or the other, IT will need to discuss the movement of corporate equipment to a larger or smaller location due to budget, size, or support. Facilities may be the group who signs the contract for the location, but IT must be involved with documenting the business requirements for keeping the network and services up and running. Every enterprise, at some point in its history or in the future, will consider building its own server room or data center, or outsourcing the facility to a supplier. Th e enterprise might be outgrowing its existing internal facility, it may be reviewing to outsource the hosting, or it may be compressing the facility. When an enterprise starts looking for a site or a data center-hosting facility, it must look at where the site is going to be located and the facility design. Th is chapter also includes questions that need to be considered as the enterprise develops business requirements and items that need to be included when performing a facility audit, as well as issues that need to be taken into account when reviewing a site and facility to host its assets.
