Until now, organizations delivering Data Center services focus on building highly resilient facilities by designing redundancy at various levels typically in accordance with standards such as ANSI/TIA-942*, ANSI/BICSI-002* and others. However, many organizations have come to realize that without having adequate processes and maintenance programs, the availability levels would be seriously impacted and “erode” the investment made in the Data Center facility.
The DCOS® (Data Center Operations Standard) has been written to provide organizations with a structured and progressive approach to improve Data Center operations management ensuring that the investment in the Data Center is safe-guarded. Implementing DCOS® will enable the organization to deliver services which are well-defined and have a consistent level of quality. This standard is the first and only standard available in the market addressing all Data Center operations and maintenance requirements.
The DCOS® audit will benchmark the Data Center maintenance and operations based on the 11 disciplines as described in the EPI Data Center Framework. The Data Center organization can choose to be audited for all of the 11 disciplines or a subset of 1 or multiple disciplines which the organization deems to be the most critical to its business.