Colocation, compute and the racks beneath them
From a half rack in a colocation hall to a room on your own premises — specified, built and monitored.
Sizing against measured load
Most rooms are sized against the load someone assumed five years ago. We measure — power drawn, heat rejected, rack units actually occupied — and design against that, with headroom you have chosen rather than inherited.
- Power and thermal load measured, not estimated
- Rack space, weight and containment surveyed
- Growth headroom agreed explicitly rather than guessed
- Existing single points of failure identified and costed
- Colocation versus on-premise compared on total cost
Racks, power, cooling and containment
A server room is a civil, electrical and mechanical project that happens to hold IT equipment. Treating it as an IT purchase is why so many of them are unserviceable within three years.
- Civil and electrical coordination handled by one contractor — us
- Racks, hot and cold aisle containment and structured cabling
- UPS and battery sized to the measured load and required runtime
- Precision cooling with redundancy appropriate to the criticality
- Raised floor, earthing and cable management done properly
Fire, access and environment
The controls that only matter on the day they are needed, which is why they are the ones most often deferred.
- Clean-agent fire detection and suppression
- Access control with logging, and CCTV coverage
- Temperature, humidity, water leak and smoke monitoring
- Alerting into the NOC rather than a panel nobody watches
- Documented evacuation and shutdown procedure
When the room should not be yours
Sometimes the honest answer is not to build. We hold relationships with four data centre operators and will say when colocation is the better economics.
- Facility selection on power cost, connectivity and location
- Rack, power and cross-connect commercials negotiated
- Carrier-neutral connectivity into the facility
- Remote hands arrangements and escalation defined
- Migration into the facility run as a project
Keeping it that way
Commissioning is the start of the useful life, not the end of the project.
- Commissioning tests witnessed and documented
- Capacity dashboards for power, cooling and space
- Preventive maintenance schedule with named owners
- DR position documented and tested rather than assumed
- As-built drawings handed over and kept current
Data centre and infrastructure partners
Colocation, compute and power
Tell us what you are running today
We will tell you what we would change, and what it would cost. No obligation, and a named engineer on the call rather than an account manager.