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Data Center Audits and Building Enterprise Value
A data center audit can offer useful input at different levels to
help data center managers to achieve their business goals.
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How Is a Data Center Audit Done?
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Auditing, whether in data centers or elsewhere, starts with measuring and
comparing.
It needs metrics and standards that can be applied consistently and that give
meaningful output.
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Data centers often use the AICPA SAS 70 audit, requiring
organizations to make their own system of controls, and then audits
those controls to tell its stakeholders how well practice
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More recently, the AICPA brought in SSAE 16 and three associated Service Organization Control (SOC) reporting levels:• A SOC 1 report concerns the accuracy and completeness
of the description of the system (the data center in this case) at a specific date.• A SOC 2 report provides details on controls for security,
availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy of a system and its information.• A SOC 3 report is for general release with a summary
statement on the effectiveness of the controls in place at the data center.
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Things that are wrong need to be identified.
Constructive auditing practices then offer a structure within which to put
things right.
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A popular approach is the “Five Cs”:
1. Condition: What is the problem?2. Criteria: Which standard is not being met?3. Cause: Why did the problem happen?4. Consequence: What is the impact (risk,
loss) due to the problem?5. Corrective action: What should data
center management do about the problem and by when?
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Whether the data center serves just one organization or a number of
different customers as in a colocation service, data center guarantees play a large part in the overall credibility and
brand image of an enterprise.
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While remaining objective, auditors take on a counseling role rather than one of just a critic.
They use their knowledge of data centers to go further than the numbers and to apply
practical business logic to make useful evaluations and help in achieving business
goals.
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Do you use internal or external auditors for your
data center audit?
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Tell us how you handle this and any pros and cons you see with either approach, with a line or two in the space beneath for
Comments.
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