IT Manager's Handbook, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER ELEVEN Physical Plant

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

—ISAAC ASIMOV

CHAPTER TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Data Center 284

2. The Cable Plant 298

3. Additional Resources 308

The value of Information Technology is really in the applications. But all those applications require hardware, and all that hardware requires care and feeding, not to mention physical space, electricity, air conditioning, etc.

This chapter covers the physical plant issues related to IT:

• Data Center: Where all the centralized equipment is kept (servers, routers, switches, telephone systems, communications, lines, storage, etc.)
• Cabling: The physical ...