Data Centres and Comms Rooms Turnkey Solutions
Through our premises services division we offer a turnkey design and installation service for small data centres and comms rooms including new builds and refurbishments. There are several critical elements to a successful data centre/comms room. These include power, cooling, cable management, security, environmental monitoring and fire suppression. Getting these right from the start, will ensure that your data centre will operate smoothly with maximum availability. We can recommend the best solution for your budget.
Power and Backup Supply
Ensuring adequate power capacity and power conditioning is of critical importance when it comes to data centres and comms rooms. Capacity planning is of huge importance to ensure that your data centre can meet the power requirements of your servers into the future. Adequate UPS and generator backup with power conditioning are also of the upmost importance to eliminate power surges and spikes and to provide uninterrupted clean power to your data centre.
Data Centre Environment
Ensuring that your data centre operates at appropriate temperature and humidity levels will offer the optimal environment for running mission critical servers. Building redundancy into your cooling systems can be an important consideration if your data centre is to house many mission critical servers. Monitoring temperature and humidity with adequate real time notification systems is of the upmost importance. If your budget does not cover for 24 hour manned services, it is of huge importance to be notified in real time of any changes to the data centre environment. A gas fire suppression system should be installed that safely extinguishes fires without damaging your server hardware.
Cable Management
Installing adequate cable management from the start, is crucial to ensuring your data centre/comms room does not become a jungle of cables further down the road. Identifying clear cable routes and installing appropriate cable tray and routing systems will ensure that your cables are routed appropriately and tidily. Cable management at the patch panel and rack level is also hugely important.
Security
As most data centres and comms rooms house expensive server hardware and invaluable data assets, it is important to restrict access as much as possible. We recommend a multi-stage approach to data centre and comms room security including, dual stage door access incorporating biometric security controls (fingerprint reader or iris scanner) and security at the rack level, be it proximity access or coded locks. We also recommend monitored CCTV coverage of the data centre.
