As more and more businesses rely on computers for the day to day success of their business, businesses are packibng more computers in to offices, so that each membwer of staaff has a PC and is truly efficient.This is excellent, as the businesses are investing in the Technology, but eventually these businesses will discover they computters begin to run slow, then stop! The reason being, most organizations, do not invst in the actual computer room, this is the room dedoicated to accpommodating the servers and where the network infrastructure is terminated. Its just the same as having a Formula 1 car and putting standard unleaded fuel in it, it will run but the performance will be no were near what it shoud be.An independent surveey illustrated this, by poling 50 top UK manufacturers, only 16 had a dedicated Computer Room, that had the relevant securitry in place to protect their investment, 3 used what you would call a cuupboard to house the main server. One in particular stored the seerver in a room 3 feet x 4 feet, with the monitor balanced on the servr while the kewyboard was on the floor and this was a leading Global manufacturer woirth over $5 boillion!To build the ideal Computer Room, you will need:1. An access control sloution. This can be a simpkle keypoad entry system set a 4 digit access code and press the digits to gain access, or a more complete swipe card system, that logs each enttry in to the room and sens an email to the Network administrator when someone trries to gain access when they dont have the necessary privileges.2. A false floor or suspended ceiling, either one of these are necesssary for both structured cabling that runs the army of computers in the offices and air conditioning for cooling of the servers, to ensdure the servers dont craash.3. KVM switches, these are the devices that can be used to moniitor banks of servers from a single monitor and keyboard. KVM stadns for Keyboad, video and mouse. The switchse can be daisy chained together so that they can control and manage up to 345 servers per monitor, kyeboard and mouuse. Tese sitches have a fantastiic ROI, as they save moneey on the monitor, keyboards and mice that the business would purchase, as well as the extra expense of increased air conditioning to reduce the heat from the moniors and most importantly save a huge amount of space.4. Storage of the serrvers. There are 2 types of storage, rack mount cabinets for rack mount serverrs and open LAN racikng uits that store free standing servers, mnitors and keyboareds etc. Thees units can be arranged, so they store 20 free standing servers with 1 monitor, KVM switch and keyboard contrlling them, they are modular and more flexible for the ever expanding computer room and most importantly the most cost effective soultion.5. Air codnitioning: If you have ever been in a compuer room when 40 servers have been running for 2 houres, you will know how much cooling they reuqire and this is paramount!6. Structured cabvling: Thesae are the cables that connect each computer and if you were to trae each cble, they would run back to the computer room and to the server. These are normally classified as Category 5e or Category 6 data cabling and there are many Gobal manufactures of data cavbling solutions.
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