Data Center and Cloud Services Directives

The site should not have interfering elements. The below interfering elements should be eliminat...

All Tier 3 and Tier 4 datacenter should have security personnel within the datacenter and securit...

The computer room shall be designed and built with new materials, which are durable, of superior ...

All entries into the data center shall be secured. There should be a direct communication between...

The entry to the computer room from non-computer room spaces shall lead into a controlled space w...

The support equipment such as HVAC floor mounted air handlers, coolant distribution units, electr...

Class 3 and higher data centers shall have separate entrance rooms and the entrance room if separ...

Outside of the computer room provide space for the heat ejection equipment and associated pumps, ...

A separate room shall be provided to contain the data center associated electrical equipment, inc...

A separate room shall be provided for the pre action sprinkler control valve system for class 4 d...

Clear pathways allowing for the movement of racks, processing, and support equipment shall be pro...

Datacenter should have separate rooms to store arriving equipment and prepared in a room away fro...

Floor slabs shall be as per the calculations of the structural engineer, but no less than a floor...

The perimeter walls to the computer room shall be slab-to-slab and the perimeter walls of the com...

Walls separating computer room, electrical rooms, battery rooms, mechanical rooms, and separate T...

Access control shall be provided at all entrances to the data center and all entrances to the com...

Non-conductive airborne particles can be minimized by: Doing all unpacking, cutting, and drill...

Underfloor concrete shall be cleaned and sealed after all major underfloor work has been done, in...

In data center computer rooms and telecommunications spaces (e.g., entrance rooms, TRs), the mini...

Equipment cabinets and racks shall be braced in accordance with local codes. Cabinets braced at t...

Local building codes shall be consulted in the planning and implementation of changes to the buil...

Floor loading (superimposed live load) shall be a minimum of 7.2 kPa2 (150 lbf/ft2) with 1.2 kPa ...

Electrical distribution systems for data centers are designed to power the center safely and reli...

Transformers usually transform the utility’s medium distribution voltage to a lower voltage for u...

Backup generators should be there as a backup to data center equipment in case of utility power f...

All electrical equipment must have redundancy to increase both fault tolerance and it must be doc...

The standard includes five Classes relating to various levels of reliability of the data center  ...

UPS and critical power system applications are focused on delivering quality power, whether origi...

Synchronization can occur in one of two ways for UPS systems: Actively based on some form of e...

Output switchboards directly support the PDU and ASTS systems downstream of the UPS power plants....

If the UPS sources are synchronized and are not overloaded, UPS systems may transfer load between...

UPS output distribution switchboards are located immediately downstream of the UPS power plants a...

PDUs with an isolation transformer create a separately derived neutral for downstream loads altho...

DC power systems that serve critical loads are common in two forms: The primary power source f...

The distribution to the critical loads must be exactly mapped to the redundancy of those loads an...

Unused or abandoned cables not terminated at equipment or marked for future use shall be removed....

Monitoring is defined as the telemetry and ability to view what is going on within a given system...

The comprehensive electrical protection required for the critical facility is achieved using a sy...

A building ground electrode ring shall be installed for facilities where a lightning protection s...

Labeling shall be integrated to the individual systems and shall provide the operator an understa...

Structure cabling is imperative for any datacenter and it should be performed well as per the sta...

The datacenter cabling infrastructure layer contains, and the Data center spaces dedicated to sup...

The data center site should have multiple duct banks with customer-owned maintenance holes from t...

Routes for aerial access pathways shall follow same provisioning guidelines from an availability ...

Data center designers shall coordinate with all Service providers to determine their requirements...

The maximum supportable lengths in this annex are application and media dependent. See below tab...

For the telecommunications cabling infrastructure reliability classes, the corresponding class de...

The basic cabling elements of the data center star topology should include: Horizontal cabling...

Each access provider should have at least one metric designator 103 (trade size 4) conduit at eac...

In data centers that use overhead pathways, 150 mm (6 in) minimum access headroom shall be provid...

Ensure that necessary airflow is passing under the access floor it has to be properly ventilated....

The function of the backbone cabling is to provide connections between the MDA, IDA, HDA, and ent...

Each recognized cable has individual characteristics that make it suitable for a range of applica...

Cabling shall be installed and dressed neatly, taking care to adhere to minimum cable bend radii ...

As with all other systems of the data center—power, HVAC, and flooring—cabinets and racking syste...

To ensure adequate airflow and to provide adequate space for power strips, telecommunications cab...

Where the cabinets and racks are on an access floor, they shall be placed so that there are movab...

There is no one thermal management configuration that works best in every instance. Each may be o...

In general Tier 3 and Tier-4 datacenter will have redundancy to provide the business continuity w...

Single point of failure should be eliminated to improve redundancy and reliability, both within t...

System meets base requirements and has no redundancy. N+1 redundancyN+1 redundancy provides one a...

The facilities should be capable of being maintained, upgraded, and tested without interruption o...

Data centers and support infrastructure should be designed to accommodate future growth with litt...

Data centers should be (where practical) used solely for the purposes for which they were intende...

Tier I Data Center: Basic A Tier I data center is susceptible to disruptions from both planned a...

Managing and operating a datacenter requires to follow tailored processes to reap expected result...

Cloud computing is the provision of on-demand computing services such as software, operating syst...

There are four main cloud deployment models that differ pointedly and for which most of the compa...

There are many different types of cloud services, each involving different types of technology an...

Facilities are the basic IT resources which underlies all types of cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, an...

Organization are the human resources, the processes and the policies and procedures that maintain...

The Datacenter should be above Tier 3 to implement the cloud infrastructure and it is mandatory t...

Asset management and monitoring are processes and it needs to be regulated as per ISO 27001 and c...

Below security measures needs to be considered in the cloud environment. Physical Security Ne...

Cloud service provider must enforce the physical security as per the ISO27001 controls and it mus...

Cloud service provider must enforce the network security as per the ISO27001 controls and it must...

Environments where organizations’ data is stored in the same instance of the database managements...

Proactive testing, identification and mitigation of vulnerabilities are an important part of achi...

IT governance by the cloud service provider is a significant concern for a cloud service customer...

 Incident response Customers need to be notified when an issue, incident, or breach has occurred...

Cloud service provider must develop an organizational requirement for business continuity plans (...

This below table represents the responsibilities of the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) and End User...