subject: Performance Monitoring Trends At Las Vegas Data Centers [print this page] Do you rely on Las Vegas data centers to monitor you mission-critical applications? Do you want to ensure your Las Vegas data centers are keeping up with the latest performance monitoring trends? This article will explore the findings of a recent AFCOM survey regarding performance monitoring trends at Las Vegas data centers. It will discuss what systems and components are most monitored, how these systems and components are monitored and what testing and maintenance is performed on critical devices.
Performance monitoring in Las Vegas data centers is coming into its own, with a majority of critical systems and components under 24-hour scrutiny. The consequence of error in Las Vegas data centers has risen dramatically and, due to this fact, the need to find and correct all malfunctions has become a necessity. Many data centers implement automated performance monitoring to fulfill this need.
According to the survey, the most monitored systems and components are power consumption which is monitored by 68 percent of respondents, network traffic which is monitored by 66 percent of respondents, storage capacity which is monitored by 64 percent of respondents, server utilization which is monitored by 62 percent of respondents and Web security which is monitored by 54 percent of respondents.
All other systems and components being monitored add up to only 4.8 percent. There has been a significant amount of progress made regarding performance monitoring in Las Vegas data centers but there is still quite a ways to go in how these systems and components are being monitored. According to the survey, 82 percent of respondents report using software monitoring tools, 55 percent report using hardware monitoring devices and 46 percent of respondents report still doing manual monitoring.
Las Vegas data centers not only monitor devices, they also perform regular, periodical testing and maintenance on critical devices. According to the survey, 85.6 percent of respondents report regular testing and maintenance of their UPS Systems, 78 percent of respondents report regular testing and maintenance of their backup generators, 72.5 percent of respondent report regular testing and maintenance of their fire suppressant systems, 50.2 percent report regular testing and maintenance of their servers, 43.6 percent report regular testing and maintenance of their storage devices, 43 percent report regular testing and maintenance of their water detectors, 28 percent report regular testing and maintenance of mainframes and associated I/O devices and 18.8 percent report regular testing and maintenance of Emergency Power Off (EPO) buttons.
The survey concluded with the following findings regarding performance monitoring trends in data centers: More than 80 percent of Las Vegas data centers with EPO buttons do not test them regularly. Las Vegas data centers perform service maintenance on regular basis almost twice as often as they perform regular maintenance of their mainframe equipment. More than 97 percent of all data centers have a UPS system installed. More than 87 percent of all data centers have backup generators and nearly 87 percent of all Las Vegas data centers have under (raised) floor water detectors.
All of these factors are important to consider when choosing your data center provider.
