The purchase of any new or used Dell server rack can be beneficial to your organization in several ways. First, the use of server cabinets, server enclosures, server rack enclosures or server rack shelves is likely going to improve the physical security of your servers. Physical security of your servers is just as important as digital security of your data held on the servers. The cost of a damaged server is going to be very high, whether that damage is done internally or externally. In fact, internal damage is usually more manageable since it can be repaired through the use of new software or formatting. However, a server that has liquid spilled on it, that gets tripped over or otherwise damaged is not going to be easy to fix.
Once the server has been physically damaged, it is usually not going to be functional again. A server rack will help you keep your servers protected against this risk. In addition to putting your servers on a rack, keeping them in an enclosure or tucking them away in a cabinet, you should probably keep any server software that you rely on away from the public area of your office space. In other words, keep your servers in a place where people are not going to wander around, especially clients that may end up upset or members of your staff that may just be clumsy and pose the risk of damaging your servers.
