Monitor the network and IT equipment with a time server

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What is a time server used for in a data centre?

Oceanet Technology has been operating as a data hosting company, IT operator and security specialist for more than 25 years (Since July 2021, Oceanet Technology is a Business Unit of Céleste group.) Historically located in Nantes and Paris cities, OT supports companies in designing, migrating and securing their IT infrastructure in the private and public cloud computing (AWS and Azure). The company also manages the outsourcing of its clients’ data 24/7. It ensures that data are kept secure and protected. The company works for customers in different sectors : food industry, banking, retail, e-commerce, manufacturing, software development and healthcare.

Everyday, billions of data items are organised, processed, registered and stored in traditional data centres or in the cloud systems. For either professional or personal purposes; making an online purchase or sharing electronic working documents would be impossible without these data centres. They are crucial for all types of companies : when IT networks are disfunctioning, economic activities of companies can brought to a standstill.

Worldwilde, the data centre market is flourishing and should see sustained growth over the next few years due to several reasons : the digitalisation of many services, the globalization, the rise of connected devices, remote working. In the age of big data, it is therefore important that active devices operating on an network are all set to the same, correct time – and that applies for hosting companies just as much as for outsourcing companies or its customers. Timeservers can meet this need.