Data Centre Design
The datacentre can be described as the nerve centre of a business in that it contains all the servers and infrastructure your company needs to carry out its everyday business functions. Space is a premium resource and companies expect to get better use of their space in today's environment, people often think of the datacentre as just a room and will often house their comms equipment or critical servers with that thought process in mind.
A properly designed datacentre with consideration to today's technologies and new bleeding edge technologies has a number of advantages that it can bring to a business in order to meet the company's needs and budgetary constraints
- Improved Airflow reducing Air conditioning costs
- Reduction in datacentre footprint
- Reduction in noise pollution to other working environments
- Reduction in loss of services in DR situations
- Distributed datacentres to maximise workspace potential
- Decreased change of wastage (Hardware/Software)
- Consolidated datacentres to reduce costs and improve performance
Although the listed benefits can range from small to large dependant on the environment a datacentre design will also take into account
- Company and server growth
- Disaster recovery plans, including threats to the business (including location)
- Building Security
- Lease arrangements
- Telecommunications infrastructure
