Lets talk about physical access to the machine and environmental conditions as two seperate things
1) How secure is the room its in now?
Is its normal operation critical to the day to day function of your business?
What is the value of the data thereon?
Is client data housed there?
Does Sarbanes Oaxley or Hippa Regulations Mean Anything to you ?
how would your customers feel if thier infomation was published on the internet or your competitor was calling them with a better offer than yours...cause he paid someone to go steal your data-corporate espionage is real !!!
You can control access to a special room
2) Is the room smoke free?
Is the room an ambient temprature at all times?
the are a ton of reasons where environmental conditions beg for servers to be kept in a special room.
Here's the point you say your IT person(obviously your not) says he thinks the server needs a special room he's right.
Physical access to the machine alone by say a cleaning company employee that I social engineered into letting me in to plug a key logger into the keyboard port to send me all the keystrokes would be a great reason or the fact that I could just push off the power button and reboot the machine and delete passwords steal files or worse yet just take a part or two-like the hard drive that holds all the data-I can pick a lock on a server in less than 30 seconds and have the hard drive out of the machine and in my pocket in under 2 minutes. All told easy physical access to the machine is just bad.
If the temp gets above 70 degrees for extended periods of time this dramatically reduces the life of the server. Smoke and Dust and other contaminants also can be bad for the server.
The Movin Cool Classic 10 uses standard 110v and less than 15 amps power.
Message Edited by SpeedStep on 03-07-2005 10:37 AM
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1) How secure is the room its in now?
Is its normal operation critical to the day to day function of your business?
What is the value of the data thereon?
Is client data housed there?
Does Sarbanes Oaxley or Hippa Regulations Mean Anything to you ?
how would your customers feel if thier infomation was published on the internet or your competitor was calling them with a better offer than yours...cause he paid someone to go steal your data-corporate espionage is real !!!
You can control access to a special room
2) Is the room smoke free?
Is the room an ambient temprature at all times?
the are a ton of reasons where environmental conditions beg for servers to be kept in a special room.
Here's the point you say your IT person(obviously your not) says he thinks the server needs a special room he's right.
Physical access to the machine alone by say a cleaning company employee that I social engineered into letting me in to plug a key logger into the keyboard port to send me all the keystrokes would be a great reason or the fact that I could just push off the power button and reboot the machine and delete passwords steal files or worse yet just take a part or two-like the hard drive that holds all the data-I can pick a lock on a server in less than 30 seconds and have the hard drive out of the machine and in my pocket in under 2 minutes. All told easy physical access to the machine is just bad.
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March 7th, 2005 13:00
You can get a special Locked Enclosure and Use Portable Cooling from a company Like
http://www.discountmaven.com/phpdocs/ajtest/item.php?sku=CLASSIC10
http://www.ajmadison.com/cgi-bin/ajmadison/CLASSIC10.html
http://www.nutemp.com/spot_coolers.htm
http://www.movincool.com/product_cl10.shtml
http://www.portableair.com/
HEAT KILLS SERVERS.
If the temp gets above 70 degrees for extended periods of time this dramatically reduces the life of the server. Smoke and Dust and other contaminants also can be bad for the server.
The Movin Cool Classic 10 uses standard 110v and less than 15 amps power.
Message Edited by SpeedStep on 03-07-2005 10:37 AM