British Standards Institution

Source:: ISO/IEC
Committee:: TCT/7/3 - Telecommunications; Installation requirements: Facilities and infrastructures
Categories:: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Environment | Environmental protection | ICT | Information technology | Information technology applications

Scope

This document provides requirements and recommendations for the type of risk assessment to be employed concerning seismic activity and earthquakes in relation to data centres. In addition, it describes design concepts that can be employed as mitigation actions within the construction, and other elements of design, of data centres.

It is intended as a supporting document for the ISO/IEC (TS) 22237 series.

Purpose

ISO/IEC TS 22237-1 (currently under revision as ISO/IEC 22237-1) stipulates a risk assessment approach for the design and implementation of data centre facilities and infrastructures. One of the aspects to be included in such an overall risk assessment is the determination of the risk and scale of seismic activity of a potential data centre location, as earthquakes can cause significant physical damage to the data centre and a loss of service to the customer. In addition, ISO/IEC TS 22237-2 requires a geographical risk analysis which includes seismic activity and requires mitigation actions to be undertaken as necessary but does not identify the specific actions to be applied. ISO/IEC TS 22237- 6 addresses external environmental events but does not explicitly list earthquakes or seismic activity within that group of events (other than general vibration) or indicate the specific measures required.

Therefore, specific requirements and recommendations for the type of risk assessment to be employed concerning seismic activity and earthquakes in relation to data centres are needed, as are design concepts that can be employed as mitigation actions within the construction, and other elements of design, of data centres.

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Standard timeline

1. Proposal

Proposal start date:

13/02/2020

Proposal end date:

23/04/2020

2. Draft

3. Public Comments

4. Comment Resolution

5. Approval

6. Publication

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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 39 N 635, ISO/IEC NP TS 22237-30 Information technology - Data centre facilities and infrastructures - Part 30: Earthquake risk and impact analysis

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