Data Center Cleaning

Cleaning Services For Data Centers

Data centers form the backbone of the modern economy. Larger companies host data centers to ensure peace of mind and operational resilience and maintain full control over their data streams. Smaller companies can also utilize this level of care for their server room cleaning.

Why Does Your Company Need a Data Center Cleaning Service ?

• Cleanroom compliance standards
• Improves equipment reliability
• Removes dirt, dust, and contaminants
• Minimizes the risk of downtime

Server Rooms and Data Center Cleaning Services

Pritchard Industries provides comprehensive data center cleaning services for clients in multiple industries. Our team is ISO standard trained to ensure the proper level of cleanliness and air quality in a data center environment.  Services include:

Subfloor Cleaning and Anti-Static Finishing

Data center floors are often engineered to ensure that static electricity and other stray current are routed directly to the ground. This ensures the longevity of servers, switches, IDE, and other equipment.

Our technicians are trained in utilizing specialized critical vacuums on the concrete plenum;  a raised floor system’s subfloor requires equipment  compliant with recognized cleanliness standards. A clean data center also requires an epoxy coating to the concrete subfloor plenum surface; this applied surface acts as a vapor and particulate barrier. 

In addition, non-raised floor surfaces should also have an approved anti-static finish applied; this helps prevent dangerous static build-up. Pritchard can also help with these necessary finishes that go beyond floor cleaning!

Equipment Cleaning

Cleaning the racks, cages, wire management, and electronics is vital to maintaining a healthy and safe working environment. Pritchard technicians undergo specialized cleaning training for a wide range of networking equipment and storage units with green cleaning solutions.

Above Ceiling Cleaning

Data centers often utilize in-rack ventilation, which forces air through the floor and ceiling to optimize cooling efficiency. This Enables a large-scale cooling system to provide forced air  rather than a dedicated ventilation fan per rack, which drives inefficiency and increased costs. In addition, per-rack ventilation systems can also rack up substantial fees via contracted maintenance programs.

Post Construction Cleaning

Data centers require a lot of construction and custom building modifications and require flawlessly clean air to ensure hardware longevity. Few things would be as catastrophic as losing a full array of striped storage drives or, worse still, a drive controller. Cleanrooms are especially important in this respect.

Disaster Recovery

Pritchard technicians are trained to efficiently clean data centers and similar spaces in a natural disaster. Data storage materials and sensitive electronics can be damaged during the cleanup process, where they may have otherwise been salvageable unless cleaning protocols are executed meticulously. Avert data loss and other issues by being prepared with a back-up plan.

MDF/IDF Closet Cleaning

Main Distribution Frame (MDF) and Intermediate Distribution Frame (IDF) closets are computer rooms that host cabling and vital network hardware. Technicians must be familiar with cleaning and working around sensitive cabling, data center equipment,  and hardware. Some chemicals and dust removal techniques can damage these network components.

Critical Cleaning

Regular cleanings reduce the risk of downtime by ensuring that server rooms, command centers, raised flooring, and other areas for contaminant build-up are managed. Generator and battery backup rooms are two common places that maintaining a controlled environment offers substantial benefits.

Custodial Cleaning

Cleaning tables, workstations, and other vital but less sensitive areas are similarly important. Staff must be able to use all parts of the data room safely and ensure that all assets are maintained. Pritchard’s commercial janitorial staff is well-known for its cleaning quality and attention to detail.

Cleanroom Compliance Cleaning

Eliminating or reducing pollutants to specified standards to achieve a clean zone is a serious process and procedure which requires special skills, knowledge, and certifications. The Federal Standard 209E which defines standard classes of air cleanliness for airborne particulate levels in cleanrooms is the most widely adopted standard among all. 

Cleanroom Definition and Overview

By definition a ‘cleanroom’ or ‘clean room’ is a guarded environment specially designed and maintained with minor levels of atmosphere contaminants such as dust, airborne microbes, aerosol particles, and microorganisms, and chemical vapors for the purpose of manufacturing pharmaceutical & bio-pharmaceutical products, biomedical & electronic devices or scientific research and other critical manufacturing.” ISO 14644-1, FS209E, BS 5295, GMP EU Cleanroom Standards define and explain specification & standards for controlled environment and Data Center Cleaning.

Air flow rates and direction, pressurization, temperature, humidity, and specialized filtration influence the Cleanroom Class & standard of cleanness. To maintain the class and standard of a cleanroom a strict cleaning regime is followed. Physical access to the cleanroom is strictly controlled, any person entering the room wears clothing such as hoods, face masks, gloves, boots, and coveralls to reduce the chances of bringing contamination and dust from outside.

What do We Clean?

• White spaces
  • Server rooms
  • HVAC galleries
  • Command centers
  • Computers rooms
  • Data centers
• Grey spaces
  • Mechanical equipment rooms
  • Electrical equipment rooms
  • Generator and battery rooms
• Customer areas
  • Lobbies (e.g. floors and windows)
  • Conference rooms
  • Restrooms
• Employee areas
  • Offices
  • Break rooms
  • Restrooms

Industry Leading Expertise

• Unparalleled Expertise 
  • Our GBAC-trained technicians also train and retrain as standards, such as ASHRAE TC9 and ISO 14644 evolve. This ensures the highest standard of cleanliness and a reliable, safe working environment for data center operators.
    
• Client Partnerships 
  • We work with clients as partners. We seek to add value on a long-term scale and integrate with our clients. In many cases, our service providers become well known and integrate with the culture of our clients.
    
• Culture of Safety 
  • Every Pritchard technician and staff member leads by example to maintain a safety culture. We know you deserve the best, and our teams refuse to settle for providing anything less.
    
• Smart Technology 
  • Standard-issue tablets and other devices are integrated into the Pritchard QA process to ensure everything is done to spec. When we build a plan, our teams know exactly how to execute it. We also train our technicians on the latest cleaning equipment to ensure highly efficient and detailed services.
    
• Certifications
  •  Our technicians maintain a consistent set of industry qualifications, and we ensure they are regularly retrained as standards change. ISO 14644, ASHRAE TC9, WHO, and other standards don’t just exist to ensure that the machines are taken care of. Employee health, happiness, and engagement are at their peak when working environments are clean and safe.

Why Choose Pritchard?

Our industry-veteran teams are available 24/7 on request, certified, and regularly retrained in accordance with the highest standards. We integrate technology into our processes to ensure that no task is left incomplete, and we build customized cleaning plans for our clients based on their unique needs. This includes a sample and count of airborne particles to check for contamination in your data center. Contact us today to learn more about Pritchard’s data center cleaning.