Server Room Basics: Power and Cooling You Should Verify
Dual feeds, UPS battery age, PDU headroom, aisle discipline and ambient monitoring: the power and cooling checks that show if a server room is at its limit.
Getting the Most From an Out-of-Hours Change Window
Why infrastructure change runs overnight, what to confirm before the window opens, how to set abort criteria and a rollback budget, and what the handover needs.
Spares Strategy for Distributed Estates
Field, central or on-demand spares: which components are worth holding, how failure history and lead times decide it, and the cost of stock nobody counts.
Keeping an Asset Register Accurate Through a Roll Out
Why asset registers drift during multi-site roll outs, what per-site completion data must capture, and how to reconcile serials before a site is signed off.
Moving IT Hardware Across Borders Without Delays
Why IT parts get held at customs: commercial invoices, commodity codes, ATA carnets, import VAT, encryption controls and the case for in-country spares stock.
Planning a Network Edge Refresh Across Many Sites
How to sequence a multi-site switch and router refresh: config templates, pre-staging, rollback triggers, out-of-band access and WAN-terminating edge sites.
Structured Cabling: What Good Looks Like in a Comms Room
Labelling, patch schedules, bend radius and power-data separation in a comms room, and why undocumented patching is the most expensive shortcut to take.
Engineer Vetting and Site Access: What Sites Actually Require
Background checks, pre-registration, inductions, ID, QR passes and escort rules: what secure sites ask of field engineers, and why access stalls urgent dispatch.
Managing a Multi-Vendor Estate Without Multiplying Contracts
One support contract per manufacturer means staggered renewals, separate escalation routes and reports that cannot be compared. What consolidation changes.
What a Site Survey Should Cover Before Any Installation
Power, free U, cable routes, access, goods-in, a local contact and environmental conditions: what a site survey should record before any installation begins.
