Data Centre Cleaning, Server Room Cleaning, Comms Room Cleaning.

IT Cleaning Ltd specialise in the Data Centre Cleaning, Server Room Cleaning, Communication Room Cleaning, Computer Room Cleaning and other IT infrastructure. Cleaning the room and the equipment within the room. 

While submicron particle and gaseous contamination resulting from dust and dirt can lead to unexpected shutdowns of mission critical IT equipment, the connection between contamination and hardware failures is often overlooked. Dust contamination, which has been referred to as the undetected disaster and has been shown to causes 70% of breakdowns of equipment within I.T. environments.

The dust, which causes the problems, is extremely small. In the range of 5um (micron) down to 0.5um (1000um is 1 mm). This dust enters your critical environment from many sources and depending on the properties of the dust may cause any number of breakdowns.  I.T.  Breakdowns are expensive; data centre cleaning is not, when compared.

IT Cleaning undertakes the cleaning of various types of computer rooms from ISO Class 8 Clean rooms to general rooms used as server rooms. The server rooms, unless otherwise required, are cleaned live to reduce the interruption to your business. The frequency of server room cleaning will depend on many factors including the protocols you have in place to combat the ingress of dust. All of these can be discussed during our initial meeting.

The increasing technological advances in server, data storage and network technology is having an effect on the way you as an IT Professional need to operate the environment in which your infrastructure operates. Suppliers are increasingly telling you how Data Centre's and Server Rooms should be set up with increased emphasis on HVAC protocols and the exclusion of contaminants (dust). Indeed the following Cisco, Sun and EMC now all state what the acceptable levels of contamination are for their equipment. All three hardware vendors now state that their equipment must be kept in a data centre which has been decontaminated to a sufficient level on the ISO 14644-1 Clean Room and Critical environment scale, this is Class 8 or better. The latest to do this is EMC, who in their most recent Symmetrix Planning Guide which, states their equipment must be placed in a data centre at Class 8 or better on the ISO scale. Below is an example of Cisco Systems hardware warrenty. Note clause (c).

http://www.cisco.com/go/warranty

Restrictions.

The above Hardware warranty and limited warranty in the End User License Agreement (“Software warranty”) do not apply if the Software, Hardware Product or any other equipment upon which the Software is authorized by Cisco or its suppliers or licensors to be used (a) has been altered, except by Cisco or its authorized representative, (b) has not been installed, operated, repaired, or maintained in accordance with instructions supplied by Cisco, (c) has been subjected to abnormal physical or electrical stress, abnormal environmental conditions, misuse, negligence, or accident; or (d) is licensed for beta, evaluation, testing or demonstration purposes. The Software warranty also does not apply to (e) any temporary Software modules; (f) any Software not posted on Cisco’s Software Center (on Cisco.com URL where Cisco makes the Software publicly available to licensed customers); (g) any Software that Cisco expressly provides on an “AS IS” basis on Cisco’s Software Center; or (h) any Software for which Cisco does not receive a license fee

Dust can build up and block airways which increase the heat produced within the room and therefore increase power usage in the form of increased cooling needs.

A number of sources suggest that the cleaning of server rooms should be carried out regularly. During our visit we are able to discuss and recommend frequency.

Currently there are no specific specifications for the cleanliness of server rooms or data centre's. Along with Cisco, Sun and EMC IT Cleaning have adopted a specification based on the ISO 14644-1 for clean room and critical environments cleaning. IT Cleaning would be happy to discuss this specification for server room cleaning during any meeting.

See http://www.itcleaning.co.uk/service_detail.php?service_id=8

We clean: Data centre cleaning, Server room cleaning, Computer room cleaning, Media room cleaning, Media equipment cleaning, Communication room cleaning

You could ask your current cleaners to perform these services or you could ask experts in the field.