Data Center Risk and Threat Assessment
Understanding your risks and threats is critical to capitalizing on your data center’s capabilities, its ability to grow, and to adapt to increased business demands.
SMS provides a unique offering for reviewing and assessing your data center’s exposure, capacity, and threats. Key outcomes of this analysis are the ability to:
- Mitigate threats, and in turn increase your data center’s overall availability
- Reduce costs associated with running the data center
- Streamline operation processes
- SMS has a proven approach that is recognized throughout the industry. Our experts have presented frequently at national disaster recover conferences.
Our assessment of your environment is designed to reveal the man-made, technical, and natural threats to the availability of your data center and its contents. Armed with this information, data center managers can start to the process of building a strategy for taking immediate actions to mitigate those threats. Eleven categories are reviewed, and scored. These categories include:
| Data Center Infrastructure and Capacities | Physical Security |
| Information Security | Fire, Life and Safety |
| Disaster Recovery Maturity | Data Backup and Offsite Storage |
| Operations Processes | Succession Planning |
| Change and Problem Management | Hardware Redundancy |
| Network Redundancy |
The detailed findings, included in our report, allow you to identify the “high impact, low cost” items needing priority attention. This “best value” approach helps you to immediately mitigate threats and increase availability.