OVERVIEW

COVID-19 is a pandemic. In situations such as this, mission-critical facilities face particular challenges, due to both the risk of unavailability of key staff through illness or quarantine and other long-term impacts that might affect the ability of the operator to maintain continuous availability. As the virus spreads, more organizations are moving from updating their response plans to implementing them. Each organization is different, and responses vary based on site environment, the number of COVID-19 cases in the area and government-mandated restrictions. This reviews the current status of the data center industry’s response to the pandemic and details recommendations and possible next steps.


SPEAKER PROFILE

Mr. Patrick Chan

Mr. Patrick Chan is the Vice President for Uptime Institute, South Asia and is responsible for all commercial, business development and service delivery activities in ASEAN, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania and the Fiji Islands. Patrick has over 30 years’ leadership experience both in ICT and Data Center Services which includes ICT Security, Business Continuity, Managed Services, Data Center Solutions encompassing Financials, Manufacturing, Co-location and Telecommunication Industries. Patrick has experience working throughout Europe, Asia and Australia with client engagements in both strategic and business developments, ICT strategic planning and operation on business continuity in the data centre for manufacturing, oil and gas, telecommunications, and financial services industries. Patrick joined Uptime Institute in 2013. Prior to joining Uptime Institute, Patrick was with Emerson Network Power, IBM Malaysia, and Hewlett Packard. Patrick holds an MBA from Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.