Maintaining Mission Critical Systems in a 24/7 Environment (eBook)

The latest tested and proven strategies to maintain business
resiliency and sustainability for our ever-growing global digital
economy

Here is a comprehensive study of the fundamentals of mission
critical systems, which are designed to maintain ultra-high
reliability, availability, and resiliency of electrical,
mechanical, and digital systems and eliminate costly downtime.
Readers learn all the skills needed to design, fine tune, operate,
and maintain mission critical equipment and systems. Practical in
focus, the text helps readers configure and customize their designs
to correspond to their organizations' unique needs and risk
tolerance. Specific strategies are provided to deal with a wide
range of contingencies from power failures to human error to fire.
In addition, the author highlights measures that are mandated by
policy and regulation.

The author of this text has worked in mission critical facilities
engineering for more than twenty years, serving clients in banking,
defense, utilities, energy, and education environments. His
recommendations for maintaining essential operations are based on
firsthand experience of what works and what does not.

Most chapters in this text concentrate on an individual component
of the mission critical system, including standby generators,
automatic transfer switches, uninterruptible power supplies, and
fuel, fire, and battery systems. For each component, the author
sets forth applications, available models, design choices, standard
operating procedures, emergency action plans, maintenance
procedures, and applicable codes and standards. Extensive use of
photographs and diagrams illustrates how individual components and
integrated systems work.

With the rapid growth of e-commerce and 24/7 business operations,
mission critical systems have moved to the forefront of concerns
among both private and public operations. Facilities engineers,
senior administrators, and business continuity professionals
involved in information technology and data center design should
consult this text regularly to ensure they have done everything
they can to protect and sustain their operations to reduce human
error, equipment failures, and other critical events. Adapted from
material the author has used in academic and professional training
programs, this guide is also an ideal desktop reference and
textbook.