Security News > 2023 > May > Juggling critical infrastructure for data centers, hospitals and more, with an eye on resilience

Threats - from cybersecurity exploits to climate change - have major implications for those systems, and with emerging technologies only increasing demand for power and creating new vulnerabilities, maintaining infrastructure is as much about resiliency as keeping the juice flowing, the air conditioners running and the security cameras pointed at the door.

Joseph Vijay, CEO of Intelli-Systems, a Melbourne, Australia-based critical systems infrastructure company that supports infrastructure for mines, hospitals, data centers and more, said buyers of critical infrastructure need to focus more on how the infrastructure purchase decisions they make will influence both their bottom line and the environment.

JV: Any organization that needs a combination of these technologies supporting those very critical environments typically needs to rely on five or even six organizations collaborating.

Now, whether you use that power or not, they still need to provision power and make it available should you need to use it, because that's the commitment they make.

It's hard to downsize: You've got this cooling stuff sitting there and you're going, well, hang on, the cooling infrastructure was designed to support this original power envelope.

If I reduce the power infrastructure I then need to make changes to the cooling and related critical infrastructure.

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