Modern fire protection precautions also need to be taken, and tested on a
regular basis. Overall, a data centre should form a security area that affords adequate
protection against both damage by the elements, e.g. caused by storms
and flooding, and against unauthorised entry. If a customer requires a particularly
high level of availability for their services, the CSP should also reserve capacitiesin
backup or redundant data centres which can compensate for another
data centre failing. The data centresshould be located far enoughaway from
each other geographically so that a controllable damage event, e.g. fire, explo