The above is best practice for the cleaning of Data Centres, Server Rooms, Comms Room etc.
Ensuring your mission critical IT environment is cleaned to ISO 14644 has many advantages.
- 1. The certificate we issue is useful for internal or external audits.
- 2. Evidence shows that ensuring the environment is clean can increase the life of the asset. For example, servers and switches can be kept in service for 4 years instead of 3, leading to bottom line savings. AWS have recently proved this, https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/02/amazon_q4_2023/ .
- 3. Clean equipment and environments will ensure the equipment runs efficiently. Dirty equipment will use more power than clean equipment.
- 4. Having the environment cleaned will show you are serious about the space.