An operating data center builds up gaps: procedures that no longer match the installations, uneven maintenance across sites, ignored alarms, poorly known power or cooling headroom, drifting PUE. They stay invisible until an incident.

DOES YOUR SITUATION LOOK LIKE ONE OF THESE?

Our monitoring alarms go off 200 times a day. The team can no longer tell which ones are serious.Our PUE is 1.55. How much is that costing us, and what is the plan to get down to 1.35?After a UPS failure, our customer is asking for a root cause analysis and an action plan within two weeks.
Anis MokdedAnis Mokded
Design, commissioning & operations
Francis GillardFrancis Gillard
Data center design & auditsAll situations →

The operations audit takes stock on site, with engineers who have run critical facilities themselves, and ends with a prioritised action plan your teams can use.

WHAT WE REVIEW

Audit scope Organisation: roles, on-call, subcontracting, skills
Procedures: operations, lockout, change management, emergencies
Maintenance: plans, contracts, history, spares, as-built records
Monitoring: alarms, thresholds, dashboards, incident reviews
Capacity: actual power and cooling headroom, room to densify
Performance: PUE, consumption, savings and their cost

WHAT YOU GET

A written report ranking gaps by risk, an action plan with priorities and cost ranges, and a debrief with your teams. For multi-site owners, we can also set up a common operations standard and shared dashboard. See also post-acquisition technical integration and what a point of PUE is worth.

WHO IS INVOLVED

Anis Mokded led a certified Tier IV data center, then ran campuses above 100 MW. Francis Gillard, thirty years in HVAC, twenty in data centers: audits, risk analyses, energy optimisation.

Fixed-price assignment, written proposal before starting, best-efforts obligation.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What is a data center operations audit?

An on-site review of organisation, procedures, maintenance, monitoring, available capacity and energy performance, ending with a prioritised action plan.

Can you audit several sites?

Yes. For a group, we compare practices and can set up a common operations standard and shared dashboard.