DIN EN 50600: Check & Certification of Your Data Center
What is DIN EN50600?
The European series of standards DIN EN 50600 is a guideline for the planning, construction and operation of data centers. It is designed to ensure the efficiency, security, and reliability of data centers. This standard is particularly relevant for organizations that want to standardize and optimize their data centers, as well as for planners and operators of a server room.
What are the goals of EN 50600?
The EN 50600 data center standard is designed to help companies achieve the following goals:
- Greater efficiency: Energy- and resource-saving work and operation of the server room
- Increased reliability: Increased uptime and availability
- Data Center Security: Protecting Data from Physical and Digital Threats
- Sustainability: Consideration of ecological aspects in the planning and operation of the data center
Data center check according to EN 50600 and analysis of your server room
Do you have an existing data center or are you planning a new IT server room? Or do you want to bring your IT infrastructure up to date with the latest technology?
Then we recommend the EN 50600 Check with a comprehensive concept development.
The concept of the EN 50600 Check offers the operators of a data center a well-founded basis for decision-making and is already suitable in the first planning phase of a server room as an important overview with all the expected measures and investments. This is also the optimal preparation for later certification by an independent testing institute.
The general procedure is divided into 3 points:
On-site workshop with recording of the current state
- Exchange of information between all those responsible
- Definition of the task and requirements
- Discussion and review of all documents
- IT requirements and IT infrastructures
- Legal provisions, standards and guidelines
- Need for protection
Risk and location analysis
- Risk Assessment
- Risk analysis
- Risk assessment
Concept development
- Comprehensive concept of the data center and IT infrastructure
- In electronic form with various Sketches and drawings
- Rough cost estimate
- Orientation according to DIN EN 50600
Certification of your data center according to EN 50600
Do you want even more security? And draw a competitive advantage from it?
Then we recommend that your data center be certified according to DIN EN 50600 by an independent certification institute.
After determining the certification eligibility, the examination preparation, the examination of the plans, the examination of the construction work and the data center according to div. Requirements. We will be happy to support you before, during and after the procedure with the organization and preparation. However, the testing and certification procedure may only be carried out by an independent certification institute.
The advantages of DIN EN 50600 certification
- Improve the physical security and security of supply of your data center
- Reduction of failures and disruptions
- Uncovering potential for improvement
- Reduction of operating costs through higher efficiency
- Securing competitive advantages through compliance with European normative basis
- Increased security vis-à-vis management, your customers and in the planning of new data centers
- Securing and improving internal project quality
Whichever option you choose, your data center must have the highest availability and reliability . To this end, a regular review by experts is unavoidable. This creates new impetus for your data center infrastructure and you benefit from it in the long term.
Sources: TÜV IT, TÜV Nord Group
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“The data center availability of the new server room infrastructure must be ensured according to current standards. Both the entire power supply and the air conditioning are designed as a multi-path supply with 2N redundancy. A 2(N+1) was produced by modular UPS systems per path to ensure the required availability even during maintenance work,” explains Stefan Austaller, IT division manager at STIWA.
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