In House or Specialist Cleaners?
“ I am often ask why a specialist data centre, server/comms room cleaning company is needed. Well it is not, you could use your in house cleaning company, to carry out the cleaning if you preferred. However, there are a few things to consider prior to allowing this: 1. Do they have the correct type […]
Safe High Level Cleaning
Data Hall Cleaning. Safe High Level Cleaning: IT Cleaning Ltd can utilising our high reach vacuum and camera system to safely clean high level beams in a data hall. The system uses a powerful 2000 watt vacuum with 2m carbon fibre poles for up to 12m reach. The brush head has a wireless camera attached […]
CHAS Elite Accreditation.
IT Cleaning LTD are pleased to announce there accreditation to CHAS Elite. This will help us with our Post Construction Data Centre, Data Room and Data Hall cleaning programme. This Sips covers lots of different processes including security, health and safety etc. “We are very pleased to have achieved this”.
IT Cleaning Ltd ISO 27001.
IT Cleaning Ltd. ISO 27001. IT Cleaning have achieved ISO 27001. Having read the government white paper “Protecting and Enhancing the Security and Resilience of UK Data Centres” (currently being assessed), especially the part on supply chain management. Feeling that IT Cleaning are part of the supply chain to our customers and future customers I felt […]
How much power is your IT Equipment using.
So, you think you know how much power your IT equipment is using? I think it may be using more than the manufactures stats say if it looks like this. The fans will be working overtime using more power, creating more heat which requires more cooling, and wearing the equipment out. If your IT equipment […]
Do You Know What Chemicals.
There has been a lot written about airborne contamination in Data center’s/Data Halls. Both Particulate and gaseous contaminants. Air Quality in Data Centers: Humans vs. the Machines published on LinkedIn and What’s Creeping Around in Your Data Center? Both, by Christopher Muller, are great examples of this. However, most of these discuss gaseous contamination which […]
Data Hall Floors. Harmful particulate.
I wanted to draw attention to how a clean looking data hall floor can actually be very deceiving. The first picture here shows the data hall floor in question. I am sure you will agree, it looks clean? Picture two shows the pad used to buff this section of floor. After the buffing we used […]
Data Centre Cleaning Specialists IT Cleaning Ltd.
New Head Office Address: Suite 78, Commercial Road, Swindon, SN1 5NF Back to where is all started. Swindon. Click for download…
The problem of Particulate Matter and your Data Hall.
This is not a new problem; it has been known about and discussed for years. John William Toigo wrote back in 2003, in his long running publication. “Contamination has been the indirect cause of more IT downtime than all the fires, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, and disgruntled employees combined.” – Jon William Toigo, Disaster Recovery Planning, […]
Technical Cleaning Server Internal
Recently IT Cleaning were call into a construction site in London. The usual problem had occurred the contractors said they would protect the IT equipment. The problem is contractors fail to understand how small the particles (dust) they are creating is. Normally 0.3, 0.5, 1.0 and 5.0 micron, these are produced in vast quantities by […]